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Taare Zameen Par
(Like Stars on Earth)
Directed byAamir Khan
Amole Gupte (creative director)
Written byAmole Gupte
Produced byAamir Khan
Kiran Rao
StarringDarsheel Safary
Aamir Khan
Tisca Chopra
Vipin Sharma
Sachet Engineer
Tanay Chheda
M.K. Raina
CinematographySetu
Edited byDeepa Bhatia (also concept and research)
Music byShankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Lyrics:
Prasoon Joshi
Distributed byAamir Khan Productions (India - film)
UTV Home Entertainment (India - DVD)
Walt Disney Company Home Entertainment (International - DVD)
Release dates
Theaters:
21 December 2007 (2007-12-21)
UTV DVD:
25 July 2008
Disney DVD:
12 January 2010
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi
English
Budget₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
Box office₹131 crore (US$16 million)[1]
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Taare Zameen Par (Hindi: तारे ज़मीन पर, International (Disney) DVD title: Like Stars on Earth)[2] is a 2007 Bollywood film that tells the story of an nine year old child who suffers greatly until a teacher identifies him as dyslexic. It is directed by Aamir Khan, produced by Aamir Khan Productions, and was initially conceived of and developed by the husband and wife team, Amole Gupte and Deepa Bhatia. [3] The film stars Khan and Darsheel Safary, features music by the trio, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, lyrics by Prasoon Joshi, CG animation by Visual Computing Labs, Tata Elxsi Ltd., 2D animation by Vaibhav Kumaresh’s Vaibhav studios,[4][5] and title animation by Dhimantvyas.[6][7] Taare Zameen Par is also the recipient of a number of awards including the 2008 Filmfare Best Movie Award and the 2008 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare.[8]

Its theatrical debut was on 21 December 2007. In addition, there are two DVDs of the film. UTV Home Entertainment released the 2008 version in India as Taare Zameen Par. A few years later, Walt Disney Home Entertainment released the 2010 edition outside of India under the title, Like Stars on Earth [9] (the first time an Indian film was released by Disney for home entertainment).[10]

  1. ^ "Screen syndrome". Kolkata Telegraph. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Like Stars On Earth (Taare Zameen Par)". Walt Disney Home Entertainment. 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
  3. ^ Vij, Gauri (3 February 2008). "A leap of faith". The Hindu. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  4. ^ Bollywood Hungama (26 December 2007). "Tata Elxsi renders visual effects for the Bollywood movie Taare Zameen Par". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
  5. ^ Mitra, Ashish (21 March 2008). "Putting clay into play". screenindia.com. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
  6. ^ Dhimantvyas. "Making of Taare Zameen Par title animation". dhimantvyas.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  7. ^ "Taare Zameen Par brings clay animation to Bollywood". Yahoo! News. January 18, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  8. ^ "55th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2007" (PDF). Press Information Bureau (Govt. of India).
  9. ^ IANS (2009-12-18). "Disney releasing TZP on DVD in US". Times of India. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  10. ^ Dubey, Bharati (21 July 2008). "Disney buys N American rights for TZP". Times of India. Retrieved 2008-07-25.