Aamir Khan’s coming-of-age sports comedy Sitaare Zameen Par, a spiritual sequel to his 2007 directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, is slowly and surely inching towards the Rs 100 crore mark. In the process, the RS Prasanna film has not only surpassed the lifetime domestic box office collection of his 2017 Hindi directorial debut Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, but also that of Taare Zameen Par.
On Wednesday, Sitaare Zameen Par added another Rs 7.25 crore to its total earnings, which was a minor dip from its Monday and Tuesday earnings of Rs 8.5 crore, respectively. Over the weekend, the film amassed Rs 20.2 crore and Rs 27.25 crore on Saturday and Sunday respectively. That was a big jump from its opening day collection of Rs 10.7 crore on Friday.
As per industry tracker Sacnilk, the current domestic box office collection of Sitaare Zameen Par stands at Rs 82.40 crore. Thus, it has now breached the Rs 80 crore mark and is just Rs 20 crore shy of making it to the Rs 100 crore club. With its slow and steady trajectory, the film has surpassed a number of other related films by a fair margin.
Earlier this week, it already surpassed the lifetime domestic earnings of Aamir’s previous film, Advait Chandan’s Laal Singh Chaddha (2022), which earned only Rs 61.36 crore. Over the opening weekend itself, Sitaare Zameen Par also surpassed the lifetime earnings of Prasanna’s 2017 Hindi directorial debut Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, which earned Rs 42.79 crore.
That romantic comedy, produced by Aanand L Rai’s Color Yellow Productions and Eros International, starred Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar. An official Hindi remake of his 2013 Tamil directorial debut Kalyana Samayal Saadham, it revolved around the theme of erectile dysfunction. A sequel, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan was also made in 2020, which wasn’t helmed by Prasanna, but by the first film’s writer Hitesh Kewalya.
Sitaare Zameen Par has also surpassed the lifetime earnings of its spiritual predecessor Taare Zameen Par, which starred Darsheel Safary, Tisco Chopra, and Aamir, and revolved around the theme of dyslexia. Also backed by Aamir Khan Productions, it had earned Rs 62.95 crore back when it released in 2007.
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“For me, the script was an extension of what we were trying to say in Taare. So Taare is about inclusion and a child who has learning disability. In this, the challenges are quite greater than dyslexia,” Aamir had told SCREEN in an interview. “The children are intellectually atypical: somebody has Down syndrome, another one has autism, and others are also on that spectrum. Not just that, in Taare, it’s the teacher who helps the child, the neuro-atypical person helps the neuro-typical person. In this, the 10 neuro-atypical children help the coach. So it goes 10 steps ahead in the same theme,” he added.
Sitaare Zameen Par also stars Genelia D’Souza, Dolly Ahluwalia, and Brijendra Kala.
