After months of staying away from the silver screen, Aamir Khan is once again grabbing headlines, this time not just for his ongoing off-screen camaraderie with Gauri Spratt, but for a project that has long been on the radar of Bollywood fans: Sitaare Zameen Par, the much-anticipated spiritual sequel to his 2007 classic Taare Zameen Par.
The actor recently made a virtual appearance in front of his China-based fan club, where he finally opened up about the film that’s been surrounded by curiosity since it was first announced in October 2023, reports Hindustan Times.
In the interaction, which was later shared on social media platform X, Aamir shared, “Sitaare Zameen Par is almost ready. It is the sequel of Taare Zameen Par. Thematically, it is going ten steps ahead. It is about people who are differently abled. It is about love, friendship and life. Taare Zameen Par made you cry but this film will make you laugh. It’s a comedy but the theme is the same.”
The original film, which focused on a dyslexic child and his empathetic art teacher, struck a chord with millions.
Aamir also revealed significant changes in his own character. Unlike the gentle and perceptive Nikumbh in Taare Zameen Par, this time he plays someone strikingly different.
“My character in Taare Zameen Par was Nikumbh, who is a very sensitive person. In this film, my character’s name is Gulshan, but his personality is exactly opposite to Nikumbh's. He is not sensitive at all. He is very rude, politically incorrect, and he insults everybody. He fights with his wife, mother. He is a basketball coach and he beats up his senior coach. He is a person with a lot of internal problems, and the story is how he changes with the film. How these people in the spectrum teach him what it is to be a good human being,” Aamir explained.
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