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Anand L Rai reflects on Zero’s failure: ‘I couldn’t incorporate Shah Rukh Khan’s stardom into the character’ | Bollywood News

Anand L Rai reflects on Zero’s failure: ‘I couldn’t incorporate Shah Rukh Khan’s stardom into the character’ | Bollywood News

Shah Rukh Khan’s 2018 film Zero was a major box office debacle. Following the failure of the Anand L Rai directorial, the superstar even went on a four-year hiatus. The film also starred Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in lead roles. In a recent interview, Anand opened up about the reasons behind Zero’s failure despite Shah Rukh Khan’s stardom, and revealed that he and the actor nevertheless enjoyed the process of working together. In a conversation with Galatta Plus, Anand L Rai 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 in the film. I was working with an actor, a big actor. I realised much later that there is an …