Zero Movie Review - Different Shapes and Forms of Love
A vertically challenged man falls for two distinct women's who clears his doubts regarding relationships and his purpose in life.
Cast - Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Directed By - Aanand L. Rai
Genre - Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Early in Zero there comes a song named "Mere Naam Tu". It starts with musical beats and dazzling colours filling the screen while Bauua (Shah Rukh Khan) dances with the music doing his iconic hands-in-the-air pose. It all looks beautiful to watch, but after some time the song starts dragging and becomes self-indulgent to the point that it loses all its charm. This pretty much sums up Zero which begins like your usual popcorn entertainer but in the midway becomes inconsistent and bizarre. The runtime of 164 minutes further drags the story.
Bauua is a vertically challenged man who blames his father for his short height. He meets Aafia (Anushka Sharma), a scientist with cerebral palsy, and falls for her. She too starts to love Bauua and together they sit on a balcony flirting with each other as Bauua says a cheesy dialogue regarding the moon. The twist comes in the form of Babita (Katrina Kaif), a recently dumped, red-eyed actress, who turns this love story into a love triangle. After an over the top chase sequence, she even kisses Babuua because of her recent breakup. This kiss is the reason why Zero takes a long time to conclude. The rest of the movie is filled with cameos, a chimpanzee and a trip to Mars.
I don't remember enjoying any Shah Rukh Khan film since Fan. Every movie after it has been a total disappointment. That does not mean the actor is at fault. He does his part wonderfully with all his swagger. It's the story that should be blamed as it gets lost in his stardom and forgets the whole purpose. He is a big star, and the filmmakers embrace his image instead of allowing that factor to helm the wheel which had put him in this position in the first place. They heavily rely on his dimples and glycerin filled eyes to do the talking. But he is so much more than the lover boy persona he is made to inhabit, and that is a risk no one is willing to take. At times like these, I really wish that Fan should have been commercially successful.
Though the VFX work is superb and Khan as a dwarf is believable, it is not enough to save it from crashing in the sea. The major problem is the notion of romance which is something the industry has elevated to an extreme level of fiction and illusion. Trust Bollywood, and it will turn an otherwise simple love story into a big giant mess with complicated love triangles, quadrangles or any other angles with a heavy reliance on something known as suspension of disbelief. The disbelief in every case arises due to the lack of wittiness or logic or in this case, overusing your imagination and then trying hard to explain it logically.
Reportedly the idea came to Rai in 2012 after he watched Krrish. According to him the Indians apart from demigods are not ready for a superhero film and are short in height from that perspective. He wanted to live life from a dwarfs point of view. Thus, we now have Zero where a dwarf lives his life to the fullest without any pity and sometimes even manages to make a joke about his short height. However, at times these jokes made me think that the choice of using characters with disabilities was based more on adding humour than for trying something different. And so, Rai fulfilled his vision with the help of writer Himanshu Sharma's chaotic and messy screenplay. The risks taken are high, but sadly they do not pay off well.
The trio of Shah Rukh, Anushka and Katrina reunite after there last outing together in Jab Tak Hai Jaan. While Khan and Sharma may not be at there best game here but they were mostly fine and bearable. The highlight here is none other than Katrina Kaif who is the saving grace of this malfunctioning rocket. Kaif proves that an actor needs the right character for him/her to bring out the talent within fully. This is her finest and the best performance to date, and this is something I believe no one would have expected. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub is wasted and used as a comic distraction again.
There is a scene where Aafia swings in her wheelchair while Bauua stands outside leaning on the door. The camera half rotates on Bauua as it moves along in the direction of Aafia indicating their perfect sync with each other and perhaps foreshadowing the future events. If nothing else then maybe more such moments could have made Zero more enjoyable. But it is probably too much to expect from a film where Salman Khan judges a dance competition and then shakes a leg as "Issaqbaazi" plays in the background.
Rating - 1.5/5
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Cast - Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Directed By - Aanand L. Rai
Genre - Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Early in Zero there comes a song named "Mere Naam Tu". It starts with musical beats and dazzling colours filling the screen while Bauua (Shah Rukh Khan) dances with the music doing his iconic hands-in-the-air pose. It all looks beautiful to watch, but after some time the song starts dragging and becomes self-indulgent to the point that it loses all its charm. This pretty much sums up Zero which begins like your usual popcorn entertainer but in the midway becomes inconsistent and bizarre. The runtime of 164 minutes further drags the story.
Bauua is a vertically challenged man who blames his father for his short height. He meets Aafia (Anushka Sharma), a scientist with cerebral palsy, and falls for her. She too starts to love Bauua and together they sit on a balcony flirting with each other as Bauua says a cheesy dialogue regarding the moon. The twist comes in the form of Babita (Katrina Kaif), a recently dumped, red-eyed actress, who turns this love story into a love triangle. After an over the top chase sequence, she even kisses Babuua because of her recent breakup. This kiss is the reason why Zero takes a long time to conclude. The rest of the movie is filled with cameos, a chimpanzee and a trip to Mars.
I don't remember enjoying any Shah Rukh Khan film since Fan. Every movie after it has been a total disappointment. That does not mean the actor is at fault. He does his part wonderfully with all his swagger. It's the story that should be blamed as it gets lost in his stardom and forgets the whole purpose. He is a big star, and the filmmakers embrace his image instead of allowing that factor to helm the wheel which had put him in this position in the first place. They heavily rely on his dimples and glycerin filled eyes to do the talking. But he is so much more than the lover boy persona he is made to inhabit, and that is a risk no one is willing to take. At times like these, I really wish that Fan should have been commercially successful.
Though the VFX work is superb and Khan as a dwarf is believable, it is not enough to save it from crashing in the sea. The major problem is the notion of romance which is something the industry has elevated to an extreme level of fiction and illusion. Trust Bollywood, and it will turn an otherwise simple love story into a big giant mess with complicated love triangles, quadrangles or any other angles with a heavy reliance on something known as suspension of disbelief. The disbelief in every case arises due to the lack of wittiness or logic or in this case, overusing your imagination and then trying hard to explain it logically.
Reportedly the idea came to Rai in 2012 after he watched Krrish. According to him the Indians apart from demigods are not ready for a superhero film and are short in height from that perspective. He wanted to live life from a dwarfs point of view. Thus, we now have Zero where a dwarf lives his life to the fullest without any pity and sometimes even manages to make a joke about his short height. However, at times these jokes made me think that the choice of using characters with disabilities was based more on adding humour than for trying something different. And so, Rai fulfilled his vision with the help of writer Himanshu Sharma's chaotic and messy screenplay. The risks taken are high, but sadly they do not pay off well.
The trio of Shah Rukh, Anushka and Katrina reunite after there last outing together in Jab Tak Hai Jaan. While Khan and Sharma may not be at there best game here but they were mostly fine and bearable. The highlight here is none other than Katrina Kaif who is the saving grace of this malfunctioning rocket. Kaif proves that an actor needs the right character for him/her to bring out the talent within fully. This is her finest and the best performance to date, and this is something I believe no one would have expected. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub is wasted and used as a comic distraction again.
There is a scene where Aafia swings in her wheelchair while Bauua stands outside leaning on the door. The camera half rotates on Bauua as it moves along in the direction of Aafia indicating their perfect sync with each other and perhaps foreshadowing the future events. If nothing else then maybe more such moments could have made Zero more enjoyable. But it is probably too much to expect from a film where Salman Khan judges a dance competition and then shakes a leg as "Issaqbaazi" plays in the background.
Rating - 1.5/5
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