Aamir Khan Says Sitaare Zameen Par Is Not His Comeback Film: 'I Just Had One Flop'
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Aamir Khan returns with Sitaare Zameen Par, a spiritual sequel to Taare Zameen Par, directed by R. S. Prasanna, starring Khan and Genelia Deshmukh.
After a brief break from the screen, Aamir Khan is returning with Sitaare Zameen Par, a film that's being labelled as his 'comeback" after Laal Singh Chaddha. But for him, he never really left the industry. In a candid interview with News18 Showsha, the actor gently disagrees with the fact that this is his comeback film.
'Well, I'm not considering it a comeback film, quite honestly," Aamir told us exclusively. 'My films usually come out once in three years anyway. A lot of actors have 8 to 10 flops, but we don't call those comebacks, do we? I've had just one flop, and you're calling it a comeback? I haven't gone anywhere," he added.
Talking about what drew him to Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir explained that the story felt like a natural continuation of the message his 2007 film Taare Zameen Par tried to deliver.
'The script felt like an extension of what we were trying to say in Taare. That film was about inclusion, about a child with a learning disability. But in Sitaare, the challenge is even greater. It deals with individuals who have intellectual disabilities—children on the autism spectrum, with Down syndrome—who are much more atypical compared to dyslexia. And what's even more beautiful is that this time, it's not the neurotypical person helping them, but the other way around. The neurodivergent kids help the coach. That's why I feel this film goes ten steps ahead in the same theme."
Aamir added that the story resonated deeply with him, so much so that it felt like a 'spiritual sequel" to Taare Zameen Par, which is why the makers settled on the title Sitaare Zameen Par.
Sitaare Zameen Par is a sports comedy drama film directed by R. S. Prasanna, and produced by Aamir Khan and Aparna Purohit. A spiritual successor to Khan's 2007 film Taare Zameen Par, it stars Khan and Genelia Deshmukh. It is a remake of the Spanish film Champions.
Aroush Datta, Gopi Krishna Varma, Samvit Desai, Vedant Sharma, Ayush Bhansali, Ashish Pendse, Rishi Shahani, Rishabh Jain, Naman Mishra and Simran Mangeshkar will make their Hindi cinema debut in Sitaare Zameen Par.
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