Every Child is Special

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I have watched a lot of Hindi movies but there is one movie that really caught my attention and heart, this movie made me laugh, smile, sing, and cry. 

Every Child is Special is a movie that touched my heart and at the same time it brings me hope that having dyslexia is not a desperate situation.  It is about a boy named Ishaan Awasthi, who was simply always getting in trouble at school for being so misbehaving and out of focus from his classes. Ishaan's father, Nandkishore Awasthi, is is a successful executive who is expecting too much from his children to excel in their studies. His mother, Maya Awasthi, a housewife who is frustrated because she is lacking abilities to education her sons especially Ishaan. Ram Nikumbh, an alternative art teacher who payed attention and understand Ishaan after he discovered that Ishaan has dylexia and consequently turned his life around and change the way Ishaan would act towards school and figure out how to appreciate himself even more.

Ishaan's character in the movie is a student who cannot cope with the academic demand in his school. He is fond of imagining things that out of this world that a normal child couldn't imagine. Because of Ishaan's poor understanding in every lesson in school, his teacher talk to his parents. That's why his father decided to send him in a boarding school but Ishaan's academic status doesn't improved instead he became loner and he is always skipping classes and crying because he misses his family so much. Then there comes the alternative art teacher named Nikumbh, he voluntarily and patiently teach Ishaan to read and write properly. And also he is the one who discovered that Ishaan has the potential and talent in painting. Teacher Nikumbh organized a painting contest where in all the teachers and students in the school are the participants including Ishaan. Ishaan is the declared winner in the competition and his work of art becomes the cover of their school's yearbook. After that his father became proud of him.

The movie made me realized that every child is different and they have their own ways of learning. Every child is a unique individual who has his/her own strenghts and weaknesses. These strenght might be in english, math, science, sports, etc. But being intelligent is not limited with academic excellence, but it's also be in the form of special skills and innate talent like being good in art (like Ishaan who has a talent in painting). The movie also emphasizes the importance of family's support, guidance and understanding. 

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"Every Child is Special" is a must watch movie because it tackles a lot of social issues that is really happening in real life and maybe a lot of students and teachers are experiencing it. It is definitely a life moving movie that will surely made you realized that every child is unique in their own ways and every child is indeed special.