Ishaan is 8 years old. His world is full of wonders like kites, dogs, colours and fish, but to his dismay they are just not important for adults, who want him to be interested in boring stuff like homework, marks and cleanliness. And so for them Ishaan just cannot get anything right.

Finally his parents cannot handle him, and Ishaan is packed off to a boarding school ‘to be disciplined’. But things are worse here – the teachers are similar to those back home, and Ishaan misses his family.

And then Ishaan meets the new Art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who breaks the rules of how things are done, and asks the children to think, to dream, yes, even to imagine. All the children respond with enthusiasm – but Ishaan does not.

Ram decides that Ishaan is not abnormal but special. With time, patience and care, he helps Ishaan discover himself and his potential.

And so after a father who according to Ishaan ‘gets angry when my teachers complain, and thinks going to a boarding school will teach discipline,’ his mother who cares for him but thinks that ‘boarding school will be for his good’, an elder brother who is a genius and wins lots of prizes and looks after him and teachers who think he misbehaves and put red marks all over his books, Ishaan finds Nikumbh sir very different. In his words, “He likes the same things that I do and taught me many new things that are also fun. When I grow up I want to be like Nikumbh sir.” Of course there is also Rajan, Ishaan’s clever and always helpful best buddy.

Taare Zameen Par is Aamir Khan’s gift to every child with a powerful message film for parents and a compassionate look at special children like dyslexics. Conceived, researched and edited by Deepa Bhatia and written by Amole Gupte who is also its creative director, the film is produced and directed by Aamir Khan with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Prasoon Joshi writes the lyrics.

The film stars Aamir Khan, Darsheel Safary as Ishaan, Tanay Cheda, Sachet Engineer, Tisca Chopra and Vipin Sharma.

They say if one has to achieve a height, aim for the skies. Howsoever difficult it may seem, howsoever far it may be and howsoever impossible it may sound, always have a piece of sky for yourself. Something which you could call - APNA ASMAAN.

Budhhi [Dhruv P. Panjuani] was also staring at this sky. Actually not him, but his parents were. And which parents wouldn’t? After all like every other normal couple, even Ravi [Irrfan Khan] and Padmini [Shobana] too wanted only the best for their teenage son. The only difference being that their son wasn’t normal.

He was special.

He had neuro problems and was mildly autistic. Not able to study and learn things the way children of his age could do, he picked up things at his own pace. So much so that it lead his mother to frustration even his father always believed that one day things would turn out to be all fine and he would be able to live a normal life.

But deep inside, he also carried the guilt of being responsible for his son’s mental state [in spite of not being responsible for it, as confirmed by all the doctors]. It so happened that when Buddhi was a little child, he was accidentally dropped by Ravi. And now Ravi carried this burden with him forever.

Kamini was not the one to take things lying down and only wait for a miracle to treat her son to normalcy. A gold medalist in Mathematics, she wanted her son also to be excellent in studies and couldn’t tolerate it when he scored less marks in his school subjects. His flair for art didn’t quite impress her while the constant taunts from her mother-in-law only aggravated her situation.

In such circumstances, her only hope was Dr. Sen [Rajat Kapoor], a neurologist who constantly tried to make her understand over the years that it wasn’t as easy for Buddhi to be like any other normal child the way she wanted. Having a soft corner for both Padmini and her son, he wanted them to understand that Buddhi was indeed a special child and just differently-abled.

On the other hand Dr. Sathya [Anupam Kher] had a different way of looking at things. A qualified Ayurvedic physician, he had invented a drug which could convert a dumb individual into smart, even though it had it’s side effect of memory loss. Aiming for a Nobel Prize, he could well have Buddhi as a patient on whom he could test his drug.

Ravi meets Dr. Sathya and in one of those desperate and week moments, agrees for the drug to be administered to his son. Buddhi turns into a genius but forgets about his past. Also, he comes across as a confused and a puzzled guy which only makes things complimented.

Final nail is hit in the coffin when Dr. Sathya’s past is revealed and the ill effects of the drug start becoming clearer.

Did Ravi and Padmini end up paying a high price for the well being of their son? Was the piece of sky that their son got good enough for him to make a place for himself there?

A film about modern day obsession about achieving success at any cost, Kaushik Roy directed APNA ASMAAN has been traveling the globe in festival circuits.

Some love stories have to be experienced and not just talked and read about. SAAWARIYA is one such love story. Mystic, pure, intriguing, musical. Words fall short to explain the essence of SAAWARIYA which promises to be set as a timeless romantic rendezvous of two young hearts.

Two hearts that go by the name of Raj [Ranbir Kapoor] and Sakina [Sonam Kapoor]. Raj is an artist as well as a dreamer. For him, the world is in black and white even as he loves to paint his life with all the colors. One such bright spot in his life appears to be Sakina with whom he has a chance encounter at a bridge in a picturesque town.

A town which boasts of nature at it’s best and is probably unbelievable with a natural charm to it enhanced by the presence of mountains and mist. Almost poetic in nature, the place promises to set the two hearts talking to each other.

While Raj tries his best to woo Sakina, she has a certain enigmatic persona to her which only adds on to the mystery and intrigue. She reveals her haunting past which only brings Raj further closer to Sakina. As he gets deeper down into this mad romance, more revelations only startle him further.

Meanwhile there are also characters played by Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee added to the plot which bring on different dimensions to SAAWARIYA.

Rumored to be based on a short story called WHITE NIGHTS, SAAWARIYA is in complete contrast to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s last BLACK and promises to be a love story which would take a viewer into a different journey altogether.

The film has music by Monty Sharma and also stars veterans like Begum Para, Achla Sachdev and Zohra Sehgal. With an A team of Ravi Chandran as a cinematographer and Omung Kumar as art director with Sanjay Leela Bhansali taking on roles of screenplay writer as well as editor, SAAWARIYA appears to be an out and out class offering from the master film maker.