Why did we cry?

There are so many emotions we exhibit while watching a movie. Not just at the first viewing, but every time we watch it.
And being a BIG BIG movie fan, i generally display almost all the feelings like being sad, some time sing along, laugh even to the most silly jokes (well, not exactly so silly, but jokes which can be imagined! Yes, the power of imagination is a great gift to mankind!! And i make use of it every now and then.. may be that is the reason why i enjoy the so – called PJs!)
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But there was one thing which i’d never done before, crying while watching a movie. I used to think movies cannot make me cry, until i watched ‘Taare Zameen Par’…
It is an awesome movie, one which will always be in my top 5 movies’ list! Hats off to Amir Khan (who has made countless people cry, which is very difficult when it come to films. Making people laugh and cry are the two most difficult things which a movie maker has to do.)

And finally i also cried. I know the same must have happened to many people, almost everyone cried while watching this movie.
But when i try to think in retrospect, i’m just not able to settle on one particular reason why this must have happened.

Majority of the people have confessed that they cried, or at least felt very bad at the time of the song “Maa”. Reason is very evident. There are some more scenes apart from this which make you very sensitive, for example scenes like when the teacher makes the father realized his mistake and when he seer his son actually reading the poster by himself, or when the boy wins the award and hugs his teacher, or when the parents cannot believe that they’re looking at their son’s report card, or when the boy runs to the teacher and he catches him, or many other scenes which i am not considering.

If we notice, there is nothing very special about these scenes.. for instance, a child is bound to cry when he’s separated from his mother, or a father realizing how he’s been neglecting his child’s problem. But this is shown in many ways in our movies. Then why this time so many people are shedding their tears and on top of it, admitting in public that did so!

Just because of the intensity with which Shankar Mahadevan has sung the song? Or because there this funda of “all’s well that ends well”?

We experience similar things every time. We become sad when there is no one around, we cry with joy when something happens unexpectedly well to our loved ones.
Then why have we become so much obsessed with this move? Is it then, because of the simplicity with which it is shown, or something else?