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OH NO! We already feel like this is going to be great tear-jerker, because just the trailer is enough to make viewers emotional and excited.
Directed by Prasanna RS and written by Divy Nidhi Sharma, the 2025 trailer for the Bollywood film Sitaare Zameen Par might sound like a sequel to Aamir Khan’s 2007 hit Taare Zameen Par—about a talented dyslexic student, but it’s actually a new tale about a disgraced basketball coach who is assigned to train a group of special-needs children as ‘punishment’ for three months. So, while in Taare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan helped Darsheel Safary discover his potential, in the new film Sitaare Zameen Par, it’s Aamir’s character who gets schooled by the kids on compassion, love, empathy, and athletic spirit.
“We’ve come to win, not to humiliate anyone,” a kid tells Aamir’s character when he tells his team to crush their opponents. The trailer might remind some of the 2022 sport comedy ‘Home Team’, where Sean Payton plays a suspended football coach who takes on a job to train a 6th grade football team, comprised of kids who simply want to have fun and don’t care about victories. Then came Woody Harrelson’s 2023 sports comedy Champions (itself a rehash of the 2018 Spanish hit Campeones), which follows nearly the exact same storyline as Sitaare Zameen Par: a basketball coach is suspended for drunk driving and receives a court order to coach kids with special needs. In-fact, the Bollywood version is eerily similar, but with new desi jokes, including hilarious digs at Aamir’s height. He is nick-named ‘Tingu’ in the film!
While we don’t see any credit to the original creators or writers in the Bollywood trailer, that doesn’t change the fact that it seems like a fun and heartwarming movie that could help educate Indian audiences about the potential of children with Down Syndrome. Featuring a cast that includes real kids with Down Syndrome, Sitaare Zameen Par already earns brownie points for its authentic representation.
Watch the trailer on YouTube, it’s also embedded below. Release date: 20th June in theatres.