Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par To Be Remade In China With A Local Star Cast

Aamir Khan’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par released in 2007 and made the entire nation more aware about dyslexia with a story of an 8-year-old Ishaan Awasthi. The film garnered love and support from fans not just in India but became one of the highest rated foreign films in China even before Indian films were popular there! Bollywood films are booming in the Chinese market now but Taare Zameen Par is one Aamir Khan film that never got released in the country despite the popularity it enjoys. That is now being rectified with a Chinese remake of the film.

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Many of Aamir Khan’s films like 3 Idiots, Dangal, Secret Superstar earned big bucks in China and made the actor insanely popular in the country, but Taare Zameen Par was never officially released. The film was, however, screened in China in 2010 with eight other Indian films to mark the 60th year of Indo-China diplomatic relations.

China prohibits the release of foreign films that are over two years old and now Taare Zameen Par has become the first Bollywood film to get a Chinese remake. According to a source quoted by Mumbai Mirror, "But China does not permit the release of foreign films that are older than two years so that move was scuttled. But since the film rides on universal emotions, a collective decision of remaking it with a local star cast was taken recently".

The film that stars Darsheel Safary and Aamir Khan in key roles will be remade with Chinese actors and is being directed by Ma Duo and is apparently in pre-production.