Sitaare Zameen Par Trailer: Internet Calls Aamir Khan’s Film A Frame-To-Frame Copy Of The Sports Comedy-Drama Champions

Aamir Khan’s movie Sitaare Zameen Par, a follow-up to the 2007 film Taare Zameen Par, has been highly awaited. This is Aamir Khan’s return following the failure of Laal Singh Chaddha, so there are high expectations tied to it.

The creators unveiled the movie’s trailer yesterday. Although the first response to it was remarkable, online users quickly noticed frame-by-frame resemblances between the movie and the sports comedy-drama Champions, which is the English adaptation of the Spanish success Campeones.

The plotline of Champions which is available for viewing on Jio Hotstar, reads,  “A disgraced coach mentors a team of intellectually disabled athletes, revealing their surprising abilities and changing his own life.” This is similar to the story that Sitaare Zameen Par’s trailer establishes as well.

Reddit now has a viral thread where it has posted a frame-to-frame comparison of Sitaare Zameen Par’s trailer and Champions, and the trolling has gone viral in no time.

The comments on the Reddit thread read, “After the Forrest Gump fiasco, he should have stayed away from remakes or adaptations”, while another comment read, “Luckily, Champions is less popular than Forrest Gump, so fewer people may care. But still not a good look.”

Some other internet users added, “Perfectionist in copying the film frame by frame”, another one mentioned, “Even that tubelight falling scene and almost every gag is from the original. I was assuming mamu will put some spin on it, but yeh frame-to-frame remake hai. Story 99 percent same lag rahi hai.”

As for Sitaare Zameen Par’s plot, Aamir Khan plays a cranky and negative basketball coach who has the task of mentoring a team of individuals who are suffering from intellectual disabilities. The trailer sets the tone for an inspiring tale.

Directed by  R S Prasanna, the film introduces 10 debutants – Aroush Datta, Gopi Krishna Varma, Samvit Desai, Vedant Sharma, Ayush Bhansali, Ashish Pendse, Rishi Shahani, Rishabh Jain, Naman Mishra, and Simran Mangeshkar. The film also has Genelia Deshmukh in a key role.