Taare Zameen Par

A publicity poster based on a scene from the film. Khan knew immediately when setting up the shot—part of the montage that details Ishaan's tutoring by Nikumbh—that it would be the "key art of the film". Khan noted, "This one shot tells you the entire story."[1]
Directed by	Aamir Khan Amole Gupte (creative director) Ram Madhvani ("Bheja Kum")
Produced by	Aamir Khan
Written by	Amole Gupte
Starring	Darsheel Safary Aamir Khan Tisca Chopra Vipin Sharma Sachet Engineer Tanay Chheda
Music by	Score: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi
Cinematography	Setu
Editing by	Deepa Bhatia
Distributed by	India: Aamir Khan Productions (film) UTV Home Entertainment (DVD) International: PVR Pictures (film) Buena Vista Home Entertainment (DVD)
Release dates	21 December 2007
Running time	164 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi English
Budget	120 million (US$1.9 million)
Box office	881 million (US$14 million Cast Darsheel Safary's initial screentest lacked dialogue. When Aamir Khan saw the expression in his eyes and face, however, he instantly knew, "That's the child. He is Ishaan." Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasthi: In looking for an actor to play the central figure of Ishaan, writer Amole Gupte turned to Shiamak Davar's Summer Funk workshops. Gupte had several boys informally audition by explaining to him how they would react to scripted situations from the film. Of his decision to cast Darsheel Safary, Gupte recalls that "it was a tough call. But Darsheel has the mischief in his eyes to be Ishaan. Everyone just naturally gravitated towards him." Aamir Khan as Ram Shankar Nikumbh ("Nikumbh Sir"): Gupte, who based the character on his art teacher Ramdas Sampat Nikumbh, initially asked Akshaye Khanna to play the role.[7] Tisca Chopra as Maya Awasthi ("Maa"): Ishaan's mother, who gave up her career to raise her children. Chopra tended to speak softly during filming and was subsequently required to re-record some scenes using automated dialogue replacement Vipin Sharma as Nandkishore Awasthi ("Papa"): Ishaan's "strict, hard, dominating father". Part of the reason for Sharma's casting was his "extremely strong and dominating" face that "exudes harshness." Described by Khan as "naturally polite" and sensitive, Sharma was instructed to lower his voice to sound "harsh" and "dominating". Girija Oak as Jabeen, Nikumbh's co-worker Sachet Engineer as Yohaan Awasthi ("Dada"): Ishaan's elder brother. Tanay Chheda as Rajan Damodran: Ishaan's classmate at New Era High School. Bugs Bhargava and Shankar Sachdev as Sen Sir and Tiwari Sir: Two teachers at New Era High School, whose attitude towards Ishaan softens as his grades improve and he wins the art contest. The roles are caricatures of teachers in general.[10] M. K. Raina as the principal of New Era High School. Lalita Lajmi as herself in a cameo role. It was her first appearance as an actor.

Produced by 

Ajay Bijli	...	co-producer
Sanjeev K. Bijli	...	co-producer
Aamir Khan	...	producer
Sunitha Ram	...	line producer
B. Shrinivas Rao	...	executive producer
Kiran Rao	...	associate producer
Manoj Shroff	...	line producer: "Bheja Kum" shooting unit

Music by 

Shankar Mahadevan	...	(as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)
Loy Mendonsa	...	(as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)
Ehsaan Noorani	...	(as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)

Cinematography by 

Satyajit Pande

...

(as Setu)

Film Editing by 

Deepa Bhatia

Production Design by 

Shruti Gupte

Costume Design by 

Priyanjali Lahiri

Makeup Department 

Avan Contractor	...	hair
Joginder G. Gupta	...	make up (as Joginder Gupta)
Kamlesh	...	assistant makeup artist
Luize Joyce Margaret	...	hair dresser
Kamlesh U. Shinde	...	makeup artist

Production Management 

Gopal Bhasin	...	assistant production manager
Advait Chandan	...	assistant production manager
Devraj Panda	...	post-production manager (as Fevraj 'Sunil' Panda)
Rama Rao	...	unit production manager
Mahesh Tawde	...	production manager: "Bheja Kum" shooting unit

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 

Nazneen Bhatia	...	third assistant director
Ram Madhvani	...	director (song "Bheja Kum")
Tanmay Mohan	...	second assistant director
Sunil Pandey	...	first assistant director
Shikha Rahi	...	third assistant director
Akshay Roy	...	first assistant director: "Bheja Kum" unit

Art Department 

Aindra Chakraborty	...	caricature artist
Sunil Gujar	...	graphic designer
Ramakant Kanojia	...	graphic designer
Munira Khokhawala	...	assistant art director
Veer Nanavati	...	assistant art director
Mihir Shah	...	graphic designer
Dhananjay Thorat	...	graphic designer
Sumit Vashisth	...	graphic designer

Sound Department 

Ayush Ahuja	...	sound effects editor
Tarun Bhandari	...	sound recordist
Sanjay Chaturvedi	...	second boom operator (as Sanjay Kumar Chaturvedi) / sound editor
Subir Kumar Das	...	associate rerecording mixer: Anand Recording Studios / effects premix engineer: Anand Recording Studios
Anup Dev	...	final mixing engineer: Anand Recording Studio / sound re-recording mixer
Jayant Haldar	...	assistant mix engineer
Nakul Kamte	...	sound designer
Ashraf Khan	...	boom operator
Krishnanunni N.R.	...	adr mixer

Visual Effects by 

Paresh Acharya	...	senior digital intermediate producer: Prime Focus
Vishal Anand	...	technical director / technical supervisor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Jayant Attarde	...	system support: Tata Elxsi VCL
Husseini Barodawalla	...	computer graphics lead: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Huseini Barodawala)
Vijay Bharadwaj	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Sherry Bharda	...	visual effects: Tata Elxsi VCL
Anisha Bhatia	...	line producer: Prime Focus
Sean Bhiladvala	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Rajib Biswas	...	digital intermediate line producer: Prime Focus
Parminder Singh Chadda	...	digital intermediate supervisor: Prime Focus
Arup Chakravarty	...	recording technician: Prime Focus
Piyush Chaudhary	...	assistant fire artist: Prime Focus (as Piyush Chowdhery)
Prince Chaurasia	...	assistant line producer: Prime Focus
Kushnum Chinoy	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Khushnum Chinoy)
Vinay Singh Chuphal	...	flame compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Vinay Chuphal)
Tuhin Kumar Das	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Deepal Dass	...	compositing lead: Tata Elxsi VCL
Brownil Dcunah	...	senior fire artist: Prime Focus (as Brownil D'cunha)
Debo	...	visual effects producer: Tata Elxsi VCL
Rohan Desai	...	digital intermediate supervisor: Prime Focus
Shaiju Ep	...	digital compositor
Nirmal Gala	...	project manager: Prime Focus
Rohan Gala	...	digital intermediate line producer
Rahul Galwankar	...	lead rotoscope artist
Bhaskar Joyoti Goswami	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Kaushik Goswami	...	generalist
Ranganath Gowda	...	data management: Prime Focus
Neha Gupta	...	assistant visual effects producer: Tata Elxsi VCL
Vijay Gupta	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Ashirwad Hadkar	...	digital intermediate colorist (as Aashirwad Hadkar)
Xavier Joseph	...	senior fire artist: Prime Focus
Rohini Joshi	...	flame compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Rohini Ajit Joshi)
Rahul Juneja	...	assistant fire artist: Prime Focus
T. Kannan	...	flame compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Sridhar Karthik	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
John Kennedy	...	system support: Tata Elxsi VCL
Sachin Keny	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Suhel Khan	...	digital compositor
Swapnil Khandagle	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Pankaj Khandpur	...	visual effects: Tata Elxsi VCL
Ashish Kumar	...	avid editor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Pranab Lahkar	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Somasundaram Lakshmanan	...	roto artist (as Somasundram L.)
Manjunath M.S.	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Murali P.R.	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Parag Patel	...	visual effects artist
Bharat Patil	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Bharath Patil)
Nitin Patil	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Nirmal Pawar	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Prashant Pawar	...	character texture painter
Ranjeet Pawar	...	scanning technician: Prime Focus (as Ranjit Pawar)
Lennard Pinto	...	computer graphics lead: Tata Elxsi VCL
Jagdish Poojari	...	offline avid artist: Prime Focus
Santosh Prajapati	...	senior fire artist: Prime Focus
Ajay Prakash	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Murali Ramachari	...	visual effects artist
Sandeep Rane	...	assistant fire artist: Prime Focus
Kunal Rasal	...	assistant visual effects producer: Tata Elxsi VCL
Gopal Ray	...	senior fire artist: Prime Focus
Mahesh Reddy	...	data management: Prime Focus
Shaikh Rizwan	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Rizwan Shaikh)
Chandrachur Roy	...	motion graphics: Prime Focus
S. Satyanath	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
Vishwas Savanur	...	compositing lead: Tata Elxsi VCL
Nilesh Sawant	...	computer graphics artist: Tata Elxsi VCL
B. Selvamuthukumarswamy	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Piku Shahani	...	post-production supervisor: Tata Elxsi VCL (as Piku Sahani)
Shabuddin N. Shaikh	...	scanning technician: Prime Focus (as Shahbuddin N. Shaikh)
Manish Sharma	...	flame compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Ritesh Shetty	...	digital intermediate line producer: Prime Focus
Rajesh Shrivastava	...	offline avid artist: Prime Focus
Krishna Suvarna	...	offline avid artist: Prime Focus
Yatin Tamhane	...	Senior Digital Compositor (visual effects)
Abu Thahir	...	digital compositor
Prashant Thakur	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL
Varun Tikekar	...	data management: Prime Focus
Swapnil Vaishnav	...	assistant fire artist: Prime Focus
Kiran Yadav	...	compositor: Tata Elxsi VCL

Stunts 

Abdul Javed	...	action director (as Abdul Javed Abdul Karim)
Mohd. Aejaz Shaikh	...	action director (as Mohd. Aejaz Shaikh Gulab)

Camera and Electrical Department 

Tukaram Agre	...	spot boy
Ahmed	...	chief grip operator
Maqsood Ali	...	gaffer: "Bheja Kum" Shooting Unit
Maddineni Ramesh Babu	...	camera attendant: S.35 camera (as M. Ramesh Babu)
Ramesh Bhonsle	...	first assistant cameraman: second unit
Malini Dasari	...	additional cameraperson
Navin Gadkari	...	jib operator (as Navin Gagdari)
Anirudh Garbyal	...	additional cameraperson / cameraman: end titles / first assistant camera
Piyush Ghosh	...	jib operator
Gopinath	...	first assistant cameraman: "Bheja Kum" Shooting Unit (as V. Gopinath)
Kusha Gowda	...	spot boy
Lava Gowda	...	spot boy
Imran	...	grip
Nizam Khan	...	grip (as Nizzam)
Manoj Kumar Khatoi	...	jib operator
V. Murli Krishna	...	camera attendant: S.35 camera (as V. Murali Krishna)
Kumar C. Dev Mohapatra	...	jib operator
Prakash Mohapatra	...	jib operator
Somak Mukherjee	...	additional cameraperson
Prakash	...	grip
Ramana	...	crane operator (as S.V. Ramanna)
J. Lakshmana Rao	...	second assistant cameraman: "Bheja Kum" Shooting Unit
Nitin Rao	...	steadicam operator
Rikky	...	grip
Ramesh Sadrani	...	gaffer
Niranjan Sahu	...	spot boy
Jignesh Shah	...	second assistant cameraman & focus puller: second unit
Piyush Shah	...	director of photography: second unit
Tukaram Talar	...	spot boy
Virendra Tiwari	...	focus puller
Gargey Trivedi	...	additional cameraperson
P.S. Vinod	...	director of photography: "Bheja Kum" Shooting Unit
Kumar Prasad Yadav	...	spot boy
Tarun Prasad Yadav	...	spot boy

Animation Department 

Arvind Chudasama	...	model maker: title animation 'claymation'
Chandni Chudasama	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence / scanning ink and paint: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Sunil Dhavgade	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Harshad Godbole	...	model maker: title animation 'claymation'
Vasanth Kumar	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence / scanning ink and paint: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Vaibhav Kumaresh	...	animation sequence: '3x9=3' animation sequence
Siddharth Maskeri	...	additional 3d animation: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Vishal Mhala	...	model maker: title animation 'claymation'
Ravindra Pote	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Sunil Pote	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Vishal Pote	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Mahboob Raja	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence / scanning ink and paint: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Satya Prakash Rath	...	animation camera and lighting: title animation 'claymation'
Jagdish Sutar	...	inbetween artist: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Dhimant Vyas	...	title animator: claymation
Rampratap Yadav	...	studio assistance: "3 X 9 = 3" animation sequence
Prasanjib Nag	...	animator (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department 

Varun Kapoor	...	wardrobe assistant
K.S. Kashinath	...	dressman
Mohd. Shahab	...	dressman

Editorial Department 

Rohan Desai	...	digital intermediate supervisor
Pallavi Singhal	...	associate editor: AVID
Joginder Singh Varna	...	promo on-line editor

Music Department 

Vishal Dadlani	...	playback singer
Subir Kumar Das	...	music pre-mix engineer
Amole Gupte	...	playback singer
Prasoon Joshi	...	lyrics
Aamir Khan	...	playback singer
Ravi Khanvilkar	...	playback singer
Ram Madhvani	...	playback singer
Shankar Mahadevan	...	playback singer
Loy Mendonsa	...	playback singer
Kiran Rao	...	playback singer
Adnan Sami	...	playback singer
Shaan	...	playback singer

Other crew 

Nabeel Abbas	...	marketing and promotions
Ritu Bhatia	...	assistant: director / director's assistant
Shiamak Davar	...	choreographer: "Bum Bum Bole" & "Tulips Concert"
Ananya Dutt	...	director's assistant: "Bheja Kum" Shooting Unit
Sukanya Ghosh	...	publicity design
Amole Gupte	...	creative director / painter: Ishaan's other paintings & Ishaan's wall
Saroj Khan	...	choreographer: "Jame Raho"
Hassan Kutty	...	script supervisor & continuity
Samir Mondal	...	painter: Ishaan and Nikumbh's final paintings
Veer Nanavati	...	painter: Ishaan's wall & Ishaan's flip book
Sunil Pandey	...	documentary footage for end titles

Thanks 

P.S. Bharathi	...	sincere thanks
Kate Currawalla	...	sincere thanks
Shiamak Davar	...	sincere thanks
Lalitha Lajmi	...	sincere thanks
Medha Lotlikar	...	sincere thanks
Ram Madhvani	...	sincere thanks
Samir Mondal	...	sincere thanks