Aamir Khan's 'Sitaare Zameen Par' Doesn't Make You Feel As Much as it Hopes
We, the audience, can’t be trusted to feel anything unless it is repeated and underlined and repeated some more.
BY: SUCHIN MEHROTRA
Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zameen Par has an agenda. It wants us to empathise with and understand those on the spectrum. It wants us to revisit and renegotiate our definition of the word “normal”. And that’s fine. We’re used to being messaged to and monologued at. All we ask for is that, that agenda be packaged and presented within an affecting, effective narrative coated in heart and humour.
All we want is our heartstrings tugged at. All we want is to feel.
And yet, well-intentioned as it is, Sitaare Zameen Par, from director RS Prasanna and Aamir Khan Productions, struggles to make us feel as much as it hopes.
Not only that, it drops the ball on most fronts—as a feel-good dramedy, as an underdog sports saga, as a message movie, and above all, as an Aamir Khan movie.
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