Aanand L Rai takes responsibility for Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero box office failure: ‘I never understood…’
It has been nearly seven years since superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s ambitious film Zero released and underperformed at the box office in 2018. However, the film still weighs on director Aanand L Rai. The filmmaker has no qualms to take the blame for the film’s box office failure, saying he did not effectively weave Shah Rukh Khan’s stardom into the character. In Zero, Shah Rukh Khan played the role of a man with dwarfism, Aanand L Rai looks back Aanand spoke about his 2018 film, starring Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif with Shah Rukh, during an interview with Galatta Plus. The filmmaker admitted that he made the mistake of not incorporating Shah Rukh Khan’s stardom into the character he played in Zero. “The problem with Zero was that, that man..that superstar came to me with so much of love and me being me, I never understood that it’s not an actor director who was going to make a story. There was a superstar attached, his image is there, which I have to understand and get …
