Aamir Khan talks about Junaids dyslexia, says he was like Ishaans father in Taare Zameen Par: I used to scold him

Aamir Khan, who’s at present selling the much-awaited Sitaare Zameen Par co-starring Genelia Deshmukh, shared how the story of Taare Zameen Par hit him very laborious when he first heard it. This was as a result of the actor had been by means of the identical when his son Junaid Khan was rising up. But was Aamir as supportive as his character Ram Shankar Nikumbh was to his pupil Ishaan Awasthi, performed by Darsheel Safary? Well, not at the start. Aamir revealed, “I was like Nandkishore Awasthi in the beginning (the father from Taare Zameen Par). I used to scold Junaid.”

Aamir went on to recollect, “So I would tell him, ‘Junaid, how can someone write so badly? No one can even read this. What is it? You can’t even write an A? What’s going on?’ I genuinely used to ask him. And when he used to read, he would say ‘from’ instead of ‘for’. Whenever he saw an ‘F’, he would just guess the word- of, from, for. He couldn’t read properly. So I used to try to explain things to him, and I would get confused too — how can he not understand such simple things? Then later on, we found out he has dyslexia. And of course, we helped him with that. But when I heard the story, it felt like my story. It was so close to me.”

Aamir grew as a father through the years, alongside his son Junaid. We want all of them the happiness as we eagerly look forward to Sitaare Zameen Par to reach in theatres on June 20.