Shahrukh
Khan
may
have
romanced
some
of
the
biggest
leading
ladies
in
the
Hindi
film
industry,
but
filmmaker
Aanand
L
Rai
says
in
Zero,
he
has
made
the
superstar
fall
in
love
with
life.
In
the
film,
Shahrukh
is
playing
a
vertically
challenged
man
Bauua,
who
is
in
the
search
of
the
love
of
his
life.
The
film
features
Anushka
Sharma
and
Katrina
Kaif
as
female
leads.
"The
film
is
about
incompleteness
of
any
form
-
be
it
emotional
or
physical.
But
it
has
nothing
to
do
with
happiness.
The
film
is
about
'let's
celebrate
life
in
any
form'.
This
film
makes
me
feel
very
dreamy.
"I
being
on
wheelchair
can
be
a
happier
person
than
you.
It
is
about
accepting
all
the
flaws
and
weaknesses
and
celebrate
life.
It
is
about
romancing
life
not
surviving.
Don't
survive...
live," Rai
told
PTI
in
an
interview.
The
director
says
even
though
his
lead
character
is
vertically
challenged
and
Anushka's
role
is
that
of
a
woman
with
cerebral
palsy,
he
does
not
want
the
audiences
to
feel
sympathetic
towards
them.
"I
never
wanted
anybody
to
have
sympathy
or
to
have
pity
on
my
characters.
As
I
have
not
treated
them
that
ways.
He
being
vertically
challenged
person,
she
being
on
the
wheel
chair
becomes
secondary,
what
becomes
primary
is
the
chemistry,
the
wit
and
the
humour,
this
should
be
the
way
to
see
people."
Set
in
Meerut,
Uttar
Pradesh,
Zero
falls
in
the
same
slice-of-life
bracket
that
Rai
is
known
for.
Zero
is
all
about
soul.
This
looks
huge
because
of
the
demand
of
the
story.
But
it
is
a
very
simple
film,"
he
says.
Rai
has
been
working
on
the
film
for
about
five
years.
The
director
says
the
basic
idea
always
revolved
around
a
vertically
challenged
person
and
he
wanted
to
make
the
film
on
a
huge
scale.
"I
had
the
idea
before
'Tanu
Weds
Manu
Returns'.
It
was
always
a
heavy
film,
it
was
always
with
VFX.
That
time
there
was
an
idea,
we
had
a
vertically
challenged
man
then
also."
Shahrukh
is
facing
lull
at
the
box
office
as
his
few
of
his
previous
films
including
Fan
and
Jab
Harry
Met
Sejal
have
not
minted
money.
Rai,
however,
says
only
someone
of
Shah
Rukh's
status
could
have
taken
the
risk
of
doing
the
film.
"His
last
couple
of
films
have
not
done
that
well
as
expected
but
he
went
ahead
and
said
'yes' to
a
film.
That
is
tough.
But
who
else
can
afford
to
do
this?
Only
Shahrukh
could
have
done
this...
when
people
are
expecting
you
to
do
something
that
just
works
on
box
office.
He
is
doing
both
something
that
works
at
the
box
office
and
introduce
something
new."
Shahrukh
Khan
plans
to
keep
Sridevi's
song
as
surprise
in
Zero;
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The
film
will
arrive
in
theatres
on
December
21.