Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zamern Par is ready to move audiences and have them cheer in the aisle. Directed by R. S. Prasanna, Sitaare Zameen Par, set to release June 20th, stars Aamir Khan and Genelia Deshmukh.
Based on the Spanish movie Campeones (2018), Sitaare Zameen Par follows the journey of an unwilling coach and a championship team of basketball players with intellectual disabilities and special abilities. 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.
Aamir praised the young sitaare, revealing, “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.”
Sitaare Zameen Par is within the same world and themes of Aamir’s earlier brilliant Taare Zameen Par, but with a new story. Aamir Khan explained in an earlier interview, “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 a 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.”
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.”
The trailer recently dropped and is a huge hit, with over 70 million YouTube views, leaving fans shouting more!
We now introduce you to the Sitaare team, ready for their close-up and hit that 3-point shot!
Plus, as a bonus: Watch the young actors’ reaction to first seeing the trailer
A film celebrating love, laughter, and happiness — say more! Sitaare Zameen Par, with the tagline, “Sabka Apna Apna Normal” (Everyone Has Their Own Definition of Normal), is set to release on the 20th of June.
Watch this space for more!
