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Year:
Duration:
165 min
Genres:
Drama | Family
IMDB rate:
8.5
Director:
Aamir Khan
Awards:
13 wins & 15 nominations
Details
Country: India
Release Date: 2007-12-21
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $352,568 (USA) (23 December 2007)
Gross: $1,204,660 (USA) (20 January 2008)
Cast
Actor
Character
Darsheel Safary
Ishaan Awasthi
Aamir Khan
Ram Shankar Nikumbh
Tanay Chheda
Rajan Damodaran
Sachet Engineer
Yohan Awasthi
Tisca Chopra
Maya Awasthi
Vipin Sharma
Nandkishore Awasthi
Ayaan
Ishaan Awasthi - 10 months
Abhishek Bachchan
Himself
Megha Bengali
Mrs. Karnik
Bugs Bhargava
Sen Sir
Alorika Chatterjee
Science Teacher
Gurkirtan Chauhan
Housemaster
Sanjay Dadich
Maadhoo
Madhav Datt
Loo Bully
Aniket Engineer
Young Yohan Awasthi
Krishn Gopinath
Satyajit Bhatkar
Munireh Guhilot
Dorm Parent
Ramit Gupta
Ranjeet
Raaj Gopal Iyer
George Sir
Jadav
Musician at Mela
Gurdeepak Kaur
Housemaster's Wife
Ravi Khanvilkar
Mr. Holkar (as Ravi Khanwelkar)
Pratima Kulkarni
Principal - St. Anthony's School
Lalitha Lajmi
Herself - Art Mela's Chief Guest
Brihan Lamba
Arun Poddar
Meghna Malik
Victoria Teacher
Girish Kumar Menon
Rajan's Father
Veer Mohan
Ishaan Awasthi - 2 yrs.
Girija Oak
Jabeen - Amir's Co-worker
Prashant
Musician at Mela
M.K. Raina
Principal - Boarding School
Ricky
Munoo Patel
Shankar Sachdev
Tiwari Sir
Sonali Sachdev
Irene Teacher
Sanjay Sinha
Arnav Valcha
Kabir Johar
Vitthal
Musician at Mela
Vivekanandan
Telephone Operator
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Trivia
Darsheel Safary, the 11-year-old star of the film, is a part of Shiamak Davar's dance troupe. During one of the classes, he saw a poster that read, "Hunting for a naughty kid. If you're selected, you will get a chance to act with Aamir Khan." He thought that it would be great if he was able the film. During the same class, Amole Gupte spotted him and asked him to go for an audition. Eventually, he got selected.
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India's official submission to the Foreign-Language Film category of the 2009 Academy Awards.
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Noted artist Samir Mondal made three paintings for Aamir Khan for this film and did not charge anything for them. His works normally sell in the range of Rs. 100,000 to 700,000, depending on the size of the painting.
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Goofs
During the song "Jame Raho," which portrays the busy and mechanical life of the family, Maya is shown ironing a striped short for Nandkishore. Next cut, he is shown actually wearing a plain shirt instead of the just hurriedly ironed shirt.
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The absent note found by Mr. Awasthi (Ishaan's father) which was written by Ishaan's elder brother was actually written in Ishan's school diary. While Mr. Awasthi finds a rolled scroll absent note in the house.
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When Rajan and Ishaan are talking in the corridors, Rajan says he lives in the staff quarters as opposed to in the normal student dorm. Later on, Ram asks Rajan where Ishaan is, and Rajan says he saw him leave the student dorm early. If Rajan lived in the staff quarters, he wouldn't know this.
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Quotes
Ram Shankar Nikumbh: lf you fancy racing, breed racehorses, dammit, not children.
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Faq
Q
Is this a children's film only?
A
No, not at all. The movie revolves around the child but is narrated to everyone.
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