'Zero': Performances outshine the narrative
Film:
"Zero"; Director: Anand L.
Rai; Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohammed Zeeshan
Ayub, Abhay Deol, Sheeba Chaddha, Bijendra Kala; Rating: *** (3 stars)
Here
is the sad and frustrating irony of "Zero"
: Told in the safest (read predictable), most conventional (read lazy, method
imaginable), it is a story of a vertically challenged man enacted by a
Superstar -- whose real life story is much more inspiring than his reel life.
Standing
four feet two inches tall, Shah
Rukh Khan as Bauua Singh from Meerut, is no different from being
himself -- confident, cocky and sarcastically brash.
His
main peeve in life is his height but that does not prevent him from aspiring to
love the renowned Bollywood actress Babita Kumari (Katrina Kaif).
But
then, our hero has a past. Tucked into the recesses of his being, is the love
of his life, the astro-scientist Aafia Yusuezai Bhinder (Anushka Sharma). How
they meet, fell in love and their romance bloomed, forms the crux of the tale. Read
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