The creative director of TZP says, “I have a concern for children’s issues. I regard them as the largest-growing private sector. I’ve been spending a lot of time with disadvantaged children.

Dyslexia, which was the issue in TZP, is not the only problem that concerns me. There are so many others and I want to use the cinematic medium to bring them all to the fore. My next film, India Item will have roller-skating as the backdrop.”

Amole has been associated with roller-skating associations for a while. “In fact, my son has been roller-skating for four years.”

Bitterly true

He admits there’s a lot of bitterness about the way he was treated during TZP. “I’m human after all. But I’m working on it. For me, working for and on subjects related to children is antidote enough. I will start my film in June.”

Amole wants to cast Salman Khan in his film, “I’ll certainly like to work with him… not because he’s a big star but because I feel he cares for the weaker sections of our society. Even if I don’t get a nod from Salman by June, I’ll start shooting with the children,”

Why is the film called India Item? “Well, it doesn’t have any item numbers. But children are an item, an issue, on the Indian agenda… TZP was my way of letting the child within all of us live. India Item will carry that movement forward. I don’t matter. The movement does.”

Taare Zameen Par was just the first chapter of the encyclopedia of ideas Amole Gupte has about children.

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