Heartwarming tale of an uncorrupted Brother-Sister relationship

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2017)

Being an ardent fan of realistic movies, Children of Heaven came as a perfect antidote to my fading belief in unadulterated love. The plot line, although rather simplistic has managed to collate multiple facets of growing up in financially decrepit circumstances. While Ali tries frantically to endure the month till his father can afford a new pair of shoes for Zehra, I was taken back to childhood days and I could feel the Ali wailing inside me, repenting for our mistakes and innocuously hiding them. My favourite moment in the movie was at the end where Ali ends up crying because he won the race and failed to come third, which would have given him a new pair of shoes as the prize money. We also get to see the reason why they are truly children of heaven, when Zehra decides to forgive her school friend whom she suspects has her stolen shoes, on finding out that her father was blind. Rarely do movies bring out such brilliant moments of human empathy. A must watch and it definitely goes into my list of all time favorites.