Depressing

Yes, the first few letters taught to a kid being B L A C K is depressing.

I do not see myself as being a competent authority to write a review on the movie, but just because I spent a few bucks and a few hours am I writing this.
The story revolves around a girl, played by Ayesha Kapoor (around the age 8) and Rani Mukherjee (between the ages 20 through 40), and her teacher, played by Amitabh Bachchan.

Call me a chicken, but the thought of being blessed with a 'special' child is scary. Unlike the McNealy family, I'm not sure how many families would be able to afford a special teacher for the 'special' kid.
Call me a chicken, but the thought of having no conceivable way of teaching a kid about words and what they mean, is scary.
Call me a chicken, but the thought of not feeling helpless about the failure at the part of the child to learn, is unreal to me.

Unlike a lot of other people who saw the motion picture, I do not think that the performances are, to quote, Oscar material. Call me lacking, but I think that such a subject does tend to bias the audiences towards calling the act as great. Many aspects of the movie seem artificial or implausible, even from the perspective of filmmaking. For example, I'm not sure, but I think that not at all times, all actors (including the characters of Rani's mother and her sister) have used communication through the 'sign language' appropriately. Then, at the instances when Rani communicates using the 'sign language', the other characters speaking aloud what she meant seems artificial, for the lack of a better word. I mean, c'mon, the director (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) could have used some form of 'subtitles' for the same, or so I think. At other instances, the script seemed lacking, for example, Rani's college failing her, year after year after year, because she could not type fast enough to complete the paper is really not acceptable. I mean, c'mon, the day you decided to admit a special student, was the day when you also agreed to give special treatment to the student. And, giving extra time to type the answers in Braille really isn't unjustified.

All in all, people seemed to have liked the movie, if quotes like, "What a powerful film!" are to be believed.

Yes, a blind and deaf born child is depressing.
Yes, Alzheimer’s disease in the final years of one's life is depressing.
Yes, being called a chicken and lacking at reading this review, would be depressing.

Tibetan Incantations

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