We have your first look of the poster of the highly anticipated Sitaare Zameen Par. The film, starring Aamir Khan, will be released on June 20th, and we can’t wait!
Directed by RS Prasanna, the film, which also stars Genelia D’Souza, is based on the Spanish movie Campeones (2018) and will follow the journey of an unwilling coach and a championship team of basketball players with intellectual disabilities. According to Aamir Khan, all the team players are played by specially abled actors — ten promising new talents including Aroush Datta, Gopi Krishna Varma, Samvit Desai, Vedant Sharma, Ayush Bhansali, Ashish Pendse, Rishi Shahani, Rishabh Jain, Naman Mishra, and Simran Mangeshkar. “It contains 10 actors who have done such wonderful work that maybe I will never be able to do in my life. I really hope people like it,” Aamir revealed.
As you probably know, Sitaare Zameen Par is within the same world and themes of Aamir’s earlier brilliant Taare Zameen Par but with a new story. “It [Sitaare Zameen Par] is not a sequel in the sense that the characters do not continue from the previous one. So, it is a fresh set of characters with completely fresh situations and plot. Thematically, it is a sequel to Taare Zameen Par. It is saying the same things… actually, it is saying a lot more actually. Sitaare Zameen Par, it is 10 people with challenges who help me… the supposedly normal person. So, it’s a real flip. It goes much further, I feel, than Taare Zameen Par. The theme is the same, but the difference is that unlike Taare Zameen Par, which left you with tears, Sitaare Zameen Par will leave you in laughter, ” Aamir Khan explained in an earlier interview.
He added, “I’m very excited because Sitaare Zameen Par is on the same theme, which is also a favorite theme of mine — of humanity, of connecting with people, of inclusion, of love, of spreading happiness.
“It’s a family entertainer; it’s a humorous film. It’s a drama; it talks about inclusion. This was a story that taught us so much; it made us realize—‘Oh, this is happening with our children; this is happening with us.’ I hope you’ll feel these things ten times more in this film.”
A film celebrating love, laughter, and happiness — say more! Watch this space for that more!
