Taare Zameen Par Review

Kudos to Aamir Khan for proving us wrong by giving us a brilliant dekko into the mysterious, magical mind of a child who really doesn't know why befuddled adults are hell-bent on mutilating everything's that beautiful, innocent, free and fulsome...All because they feel there is no faayda (profit) in it.

Ostensibly, the film is about children with special needs and the story revolves around the efforts of a dyslexic child to fit in, adjust and perform in a 'normal' world where competition is the norm and regimentation the principle.

A world where it is natural and 'normal' to rap eight-year-old knuckles and discipline with verbal abuse and physical battering, if a child gets his spellings wrong, forgets to do his homework or fails to give a copy book answer. But the canvas of the film is so sensitive, so vast, so meaningful, it includes any and every child in its ambit. So much so, Taare Zameen Par becomes the story of any and every child who is being robbed off his childhood by insensitive parents and teachers who believe their job is to create race-winning rats for the rat race rather than Einsteins, Edisons, Agatha Christies and Leonardo Da Vincis.

Eight-year-old Ishaan (Darsheel) is a happy-go-lucky child with a fertile imagination that can see fish flying but fails to grasp the difference between B and D. When asked to solve his three times table, he confidently picks up his pencil and sees a war of planets on the firmament of his mind where planet 3 smashes into planet 6 and beats it into smithereens.

Naturally, the answer of 3 x 6 is 3 for our little genius. But that's between you and me. Berated by the teachers, his parents send the kid away to a boarding school and deliver him to a living hell, where he faces ridicule and begins to lose all self-esteem in his effort to fit in. It takes an unconventional art teacher (Aamir Khan) to bring him out of his solitary confinement and unleash a whole new energy force that blinds the boring world with its colours and configurations.

The story is simple and connects instantly with every adult and child in the auditorium, even as the climax is predictable and plays heavily on your emotions. But what uplifts the film is its very simplicity, sensitivity and its performances. On the one hand, there is the non-filmy script which doesn't make anyone the villain...even the adults are victims of ignorance. On the other, there is the towering portrayal by young Darsheel who trapezes between lively and lost with great agility.

And holding it all deftly together - the tears and the smiles, the lows and the highs - is Aamir Khan who makes a measured directorial debut. Almost as measured and meticulous as his performances. Of course, the second half does get a bit repetitive, the script needs a bit of taut editing, the trauma of the lonely child seems a shade too prolonged and the treatment simplistic. But the film never does stop tugging at your heartstrings.

We recommend a mandatory viewing for all schools and all parents.

Fingerprint Authentication

A fingerprint is the feature pattern of one finger. It is believed with strong 

evidences that each fingerprint is unique. Each person has his own fingerprints with the 

permanent uniqueness. So fingerprints have being used for identification and forensic 

investigation for a long time.

A fingerprint is composed of many ridges and furrows. These ridges and furrows 

present good similarities in each small local window, like parallelism and average 

width. However, shown by intensive research on fingerprint recognition, fingerprints 

are not distinguished by their ridges and furrows, but by Minutia, which are some 

abnormal points on the ridges (Figure 1.1.2). Among the variety of minutia types reported in literatures, two are mostly significant and in heavy usage one is called 

termination, which is the immediate ending of a ridge the other is called bifurcation, 

which is the point on the ridge from which two Branches derive.

The fingerprint authentication problem can be grouped into two sub-domains. One is

fingerprint verification and the other is fingerprint identification (Figure 1.3). In

addition, different from the manual approach for fingerprint authentication by experts,

the fingerprint authentication here is referred as FAA (Fingerprint Authentication in

ATM), which is program based.

Life struggle

Everyday I wonder and think
How much am I missing with every blink

Is the world spinning so fast
Or is it the time to forget the past

'Cause with every spine
There were happiness and moments that stood still

Many questions poured everyday into my head
Why don't the people care who is alive and who is dead

Why don't they open their eyes and see
That the world is changing while they are sitting in front of the TV

I guess we are drowning in our desires
Without knowing that there are some countries that are still on fire

Poetry

I want to live,
I don't want to lie,
I want to be truthful until I die.
I want to die in my sleep,
for that alone would bring me peace.
I want to go to heaven
I don't want to go to hell.
Heaven is peaceful,
and it will suit me well.
That I know,
I also know,
though I want to go to heaven
I want to spend life with you.