SRK shouldn’t have done 'Zero': Liliput

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s last big screen project, 2018’s Zero was not well received by fans and critics alike. Veteran actor in a recent interview went further and said that he specifically didn’t enjoy  Khan’s portrayal of a dwarf in the film, reported Doordarshan.

According to Liliput, Shah Rukh should not have taken up the role for two reasons. The first being that there is ‘nothing to act’ about being a dwarf. “Even when I did not know the story of the film, my reaction was still that Shah Rukh Khan should not have done this film. A normal-looking person can still act as someone who is blind, doesn’t have a leg or an arm, is deaf or mute. He will have to act. What is there to ‘act’ when playing a dwarf?” he was quoted as saying.

Adding on , Liliput went on to discuss how a dwarf is essentially is a ‘normal person’. “A dwarf speaks, walks, thinks like a normal person. Only his legs and arms are small or he has a distorted figure. But his wit and manner of speaking is no different. When you are playing a blind person, you have to act because you are pretending to be blind even when you can see. When you play a person who cannot walk, you have to pretend to be one and convince the audience of it. How will you convince someone that you are a dwarf? When you are so famous,” he said .

Secondly, he was unimpressed by the film not showing the emotional impact that dwarfism has on a person. “When you decided to play a dwarf, you didn’t touch upon the emotional, psychological and social problems that dwarves go through. You didn’t show the trauma and tragedy of a dwarf. Anushka Sharma played a woman with a far more tragic story than him. She couldn’t speak or walk. He was the one jumping around, doing everything, what problem does he have? So even the script was weird. Don’t know how someone so intelligent, successful… they too make mistakes,” he said. Lilliput added that Shah Rukh could not convince the audience as a dwarf as expertly as he does when he does his romantic movies.