Captaincy & Direction

The talk of the town is Taare Zameen Par, the directorial debut venture of Aamir Khan.

The story is striking for its simplicity in story telling,connecting with the people,and does a serious soul searching.It is a moving rendition and a hit with the children and adults alike, not to speak of politicians.

While the purpose of this blog is not to analyse the film itself,am tempted to compare with the effort with another AK ( Anil Kumble ) ,and therefore another field and bring out certain commonalities between the game and the movie to draw lessons from.

While Aamir brings himself rather late as a director and even makes his appearance at the stroke of intermission, Anil Kumble was chosen to lead as a captain at the fag end of his career.

It is refreshing to have two AKS leading change in their chosen fields and doing their jobs with aplomb.

If the responsibility of good cinema rests with a good plot and direction which will automatically ensure critical acclaim if not always viewership,so too will the game be assured of followership and repute with the basics in place.

The game must not only be taught at the grass roots level,but the onus is also to teach the qualitative aspects and why a game(a test of talent,skill, mettle, sportmanship and above all desire to win must be bounded by the rules of fair play) would cease to be one, if not played in the right spirit for the mere sake of chasing a string of records either by an individual or by a team or for the commercial reasons.

Ditto for cinema or society driven by peer pressure.

With captaincy in the right direction,we will have truly nurtured the indomitable human spirit to every Ishant Nandkishore Awasthi,on and off the field.

Keep up the good work, AK and AK.