Sitaare Zameen Par box office collection Day 2: Aamir Khan film doubles its Day 1 collection, crosses Rs 30 crore mark

On Saturday, Sitaare Zameen Par recorded an overall Hindi occupancy rate of 36.16%. The Aamir Khan film began the day with 13.00% occupancy, which rose to 31.86% in the afternoon. Evening shows saw a further increase to 43.05%, while night shows registered the highest occupancy at 56.71%.

The movie opened to positive reviews on Friday. The Indian Express film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her review, “To make a film revolving around intellectual disability is fraught with risk. If you make people cry, people within the community can accuse the filmmakers of being miserabilist; if you make them laugh, you can be charged with making light of a tough situation. Borrowing the tone from the original, ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ chooses to stay on the side of laughter, and it’s a wise decision, because what you can convey to the average person through laughs sometimes has more weight than wrung-out-tears.”

Besides Aamir Khan, Genelia Deshmukh, Brijendra Kala, and Dolly Ahluwalia in key roles, Sitaare Zameen Par, a spiritual sequel of Aamir Khan’s 2007 hit film Taare Zameen Par, also stars 10 newcomers – Aroush Datta, Gopi Krishna Varma, Samvit Desai, Vedant Sharma, Ayush Bhansali, Ashish Pendse, Rishi Shahani, Rishabh Jain, Naman Mishra, and Simran Mangeshkar.

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