Aamir Khan beats Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan as Sitaare Zameen Par creates history, becomes first Indian film to....
Sitaare Zameen Par has become the first Indian film that can be viewed and understood by all kinds of people. It has closed captions, audio descriptions, and Indian Sign Language, ensuring that viewers with visual, hearing, or speech impairments can enjoy the film with respect and freedom. Sitaare Zameen Par Features Indian Sign Language
Released on June 20, the movie created history not only in Indian cinema but across the globe. While many international films have introduced various accessibility tools in the past, Sitaare Zameen Par is the first film to incorporate Indian Sign Language through the XL Cinema app, which allows users to access a real-time ISL interpreter on their mobile devices. What Does the XL Cinema App Do?
The app helps sync the audio of the film in the theater, which eventually benefits deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. People with hearing impairments can easily understand the story and background audio cues of the film because the closed captions provide on-screen dialogue and sound descriptions.
On the other hand, a voiceover describing the visual elements inclduing settings, actions, making the film easier to flow for people with partial vision is done with the help of audio description feature.
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