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Sitaare Zameen Par – Memories


What is normal?

Look at my butt.

It definitely makes people embarrassed who have yet to watch this movie. I have watched many feel-good movies these days, and none of them impressed me except Meiyazhagan, but now Sitaare Zameen Par is added to my favourites list.

Sitaare Zameen Par is a feel-good movie about the never-changing man who changed his point of view towards life because of the 25- to 30-year-old kids. Yes, I'm talking about kids with autism and Down syndrome. 

After watching this movie, I highly recommend this to my friends; some already enjoyed it and some are ready to, but some are not ready to watch this movie because they can't bear the visual sorrow of seeing the lives of autism and Down syndrome kids. Even I used to be like this. People feel pity for them. But my POV is that we are abnormal, but they are normal. They are intelligent; they understand humans and animals better than us, and moreover, they are not yet captured by the ego, jealousy, and vengeance.

I extremely loved this love because right from my childhood I have interacted with them many times. When I was a schoolboy, I used to get my hair cut in a salon near my school. In that saloon, there was a helper to sweep and do small work who has Down syndrome. He was always seen happy with a smile on his face. Whoever comes to that saloon, that Anna offers tea, gives them newspapers and plays with kids.


Like him, I encountered many brothers and sisters, but not everyone got the freedom like him. It's very rare to see autism and Down syndrome kids in public places because their parents feel ashamed to expose them as the parents of special kids. Even my house owner's daughter is also a 20-year-old autistic kid, but I haven't even seen her once because they are not giving her the freedom to live a normal life. She doesn't even talk much because her parents didn't talk much to her.

There is no shame in having a special child. They are normal. But we are not letting them be normal. Lack of freedom makes them violent and angry. So, at first, the mentality of people should change so that the special kids will seem normal.

So, Sitaare Zameen Par made my day. It's a very good movie, and I don't want to spoil anything or rate this movie as I did before. I just want to share my thoughts and memories here.

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