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Taare Zameen Par

Taare Zameen Par

Movie · 2007 · 12 people

Taare Zameen Par ("Stars on the Earth"; Like Stars on Earth in English, Her Çocuk Özeldir in Turkey) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language psychological drama. It was Aamir Khan's first film as director, and he also produced it through Aamir Khan Productions. Released on December 21, 2007, it grossed ₹98.48 crore worldwide. As India's entry for the 81st Academy Awards it was not nominated. It draws attention to dyslexia in children.

The story follows Ishaan Awasthi (Darsheel Safary), an eight-year-old gifted in art and imagination. Failing at school and shunned, he is sent to a boarding school to be disciplined. Nothing changes until the new art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh (Aamir Khan), looks into the reason for the boy's unhappiness, suspects dyslexia and patiently helps him overcome his reading difficulty. Tisca Chopra and Vipin Sharma play Ishaan's parents.

Amole Gupte wrote the screenplay, developing the idea with his wife, the editor Deepa Bhatia. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the music and Prasoon Joshi wrote most of the lyrics. Filming took place in Mumbai and at the New Era High School in Panchgani. The film won five of its 11 nominations at the 53rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, and three prizes at the 55th National Film Awards.

DirectorAamir Khan
Production companyAamir Khan Productions
Taare Zameen Par

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Aamir Khan Aamir Khan Actor · 61 years old Ram Shankar Nikumbh Darsheel Safary Tisca Chopra Vipin Sharma Sachet Engineer Tanay Chheda Girija Oak Meghna Malik Sonali Sachdev M. K. Raina Gurkirtan Abhishek Bachchan

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AI-assisted editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives. They are not reader reviews; those are below.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

One of the rare films to watch with children and even grandparents. It explains very clearly that a child who struggles at school may not be lazy but someone who learns differently. That message does both children and parents good. Its one drawback is the running time: the film is very long, so for the little ones two sittings could make sense.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Aamir Khan's first outing as director builds a classic but effective structure that puts the teacher-pupil bond at the center of an emotional journey. Its strength is in foregrounding the child's point of view and inner imaginative world without turning dyslexia into an illness narrative. Its weakness is the dose of emotional steering: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music and Prasoon Joshi's lyrics often tell the viewer what to feel, and the long running time stretches some sections more than they need. A tighter edit could have done more with less; even so, its Filmfare success looks like a fair reward for direction that can carry a child's performance.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film's real contribution is questioning an education culture in which children who fail at school are often labeled lazy or undisciplined. Sending the child off to boarding school to be 'disciplined' is a familiar reflex in many societies, and the film shows that the problem may lie not with the child but with a system that does not try to understand him. Being known in Turkey as Her Çocuk Özeldir ('Every Child Is Special') says something about how its message landed here. For dyslexia awareness it is still a timely conversation starter for teachers and parents.

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