Film Reference

“Taare Zameen par” is a Bollywood film directed and produced by Amir Khan. It surrounds a story of a kid of 8-9 years. He is suffering from a psychological disease ‘dyslexia’. No one around him can recognize him that he is a slow learner. All teachers and specially his father behave him very bad by giving him punishment. He has the problem of identifying the words and therefore he cannot read and write properly. After several complain from the school and building, his frustrated father decides to send him boarding school to ‘be disciplined’. There he sinks into a state of fear and depression. But his internal world is rich with wonders that he is unable to convey to others, magical lands filled with colors and animated animals. He is an artist whose talent is unrecognized. At boarding school, a new art teacher gets worried to see the condition of the boy. After investigating, he comes to know the actual reason and attempts to make him brilliant. He teaches him using different techniques which he can understand. In a very short interval, the kid learns everything even reading and writing, and in the ending of year, he gets high grades in his class. 

Why I chose This Film.  

Taare Zameen par is not one of those films that merely entertains, but also lightens. It is one film that makes you peep into a child’s mind that there’s also a hidden talent that needs to be nourished and encouraged. A film can change the thinking, attitudes, behaviors and practice of people much faster than any other technique. So, I select this film as a reference because my film story is also quiet similar to this film. The MISE EN SCENE from this film will be pretty similar to my short film . 

I have been well inspired by the cinematography used in this film the shots selections, camera framing, color pallete, the editing is also soft . I mean there is no hard cut the entire movie is soothing to eyes with relatable content and therefore I used this film as reference because in this film audience gets connected to the main protagonist and feels what pain he is going as well they get happy for him when he is relieved   

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