

Khan's wife, Kiran Rao, also worked as an associate producer for Taare Zameen Par. Taare Zameen Par won the 2008 Filmfare Best Movie Award as well as a number of other Filmfare and Star Screen Awards.

It tells the story of a young child who suffers in school until a teacher identifies him as dyslexic. The film was initially conceived of and developed by a husband-and-wife team, Amole Gupte and Deepa Bhatia. Khan also starred in Taare Zameen Par, sharing the screen with the child actor Darsheel Safary (in his acting debut) and Tisca Chopra. Shrinivas Rao later served as the executive producer for Khan's directorial debut, Taare Zameen Par, and became the executive producer for the production company, supervising all of its productions. The film won many major awards at several award functions such as Filmfare and IIFA.ī. The film was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category along with four other foreign films, eventually losing to No Man's Land. The movie was released in 2001, with Khan as the lead actor. Shrinivas Rao also joined AKP as the line producer on Lagaan. He decided to produce Lagaan after the script was not purchased by any other studio. Aamir Khan Productions was set up in 1999 by Hindi film actor Aamir Khan with the purpose of producing the film Lagaan.
