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Taare Zameen Par

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The movie takes one to an emotional journey, where in pieces it touches one to core, where you cant suppress the tears from flowing. There are moments, when the pain reflects so raw, when the child is made to stay aloof from mother and the song puts it so very verbatim to evoke the same.. mom you know it all. A child is so close to mother and the bond is so precious and close that no matter where in the world we may be born, the relation carries the same very depth and closeness. There are beautiful narrations in places, for e.g. when aamir talks to the father who comes to explain that he cares for the child and his mother has surfed the net over the dyslexia disease symptoms and aamir replies caring simply means just saying I am there for you no matter what. What can one do by surfing the net than just being there as strength. The movie provokes such a humane feeling , that I felt somehow very close to even the street children, to the extent you can relate and understand their dile

I miss those hand written letters

Emails really have replaced the letter writes, we used to have in the past years. I used to love them, infact I still have all my letters received saved in boxes and when I am on cleaning spree, I end up reading some of them and see how much emotional, we used to be to write those letters. I know my cousins , aunts and uncles - they all have been so generous to me - I love you all for that. I also know my cousins too cherish them and have saved all my letters and also have put them in scrap book, so that they stay for long. Infact all the rakhis etc, I shared with them are all saved. I really feel touched by them for this gesture of love. I remember they sent me a token of money from their pocket money in a letter, when they realised that, on Rakhi, sisters are given a gift in return and when that letter turned up at my place, it came with a custom notice indicating, that the money was getting smuggled under my name. It was actually hilarious and we offered that entire money to customs