Aamir Khan starrer Sitaare Zameen Par to launch 10 child actors

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Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zameen Par is gearing up for release and is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed 2007 film Taare Zameen Par. Fans are eagerly awaiting the new film, expecting another heartfelt and inspiring story. The original film launched Darsheel Safary and touched hearts with its sensitive portrayal of a child with dyslexia. Darsheel’s performance was widely acclaimed for its innocence and emotional depth. Now, Sitaare Zameen Par aims to recreate that magic, this time introducing 10 talented new child actors. This film will introduce fresh faces in a heartwarming and challenging story. With Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan continues his legacy of meaningful cinema, focusing on children’s journeys and struggles, much like the emotional impact of Taare Zameen Par. Audiences have been eagerly awaiting the trailer release of the film, which was postponed as a mark of respect for the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack. Sitaare Zameen Par follows a man’s emotional journey as he con...
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Bread and Salt review – clarity and rigour as a talented Polish pianist returns to his hometown

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Real-life pianist Tymoteusz Bies and his younger brother Jacek star in Damian Kocur’s extraordinary and intriguing debut

There’s an icy, unforgiving clarity and compositional rigour to this arresting feature debut from Polish film-maker Damian Kocur, made using non-professionals and partly inspired by a violent incident from real life; it won the special jury prize at Venice in 2022.

Real-life Polish pianist Tymoteusz Bies plays Tymek, a high-achieving young man studying piano at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music. He’s returned for the summer break to his drab home town, perhaps based on Ełk in the north-east, where all the kids he grew up with are heading for useless jobs and humdrum lives. He’s happy to be back with his music teacher mum and his brother Jacek (played by his actual brother Jacek Bies) but is perplexed and irritated by the fact that Jacek, despite his own piano talent, isn’t really working hard to get a musical scholarship, like him.

Jacek seems lazily content to live his life with a local girlfriend in this grim dead-end town, with all its racism, Islamophobia and homophobia, which is directed at a nearby Tunisian kebab shop; its hardworking owners tell Tymek that the traditional Polish welcome of “bread and salt” has not been forthcoming. And Tymek is also coldly resistant to answering Jacek’s questions as to whether he has a girlfriend in Warsaw. But something strange happens; we see how Tymek is rather gratified by his celebrity status here with his old pals; he’s quite content to hang out with them all summer long, playing basketball, listening to them freestyle rapping, and he even laughs along to the racist jokes over the endless beers. He certainly wants to get closer to his brother, but it ends in catastrophe.

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