The last time Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was seen on the silver screen was in the movie ‘Zero’ which released in the year 2018. In it, he played a dwarf who charmed the two leading ladies, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif.
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As per a report in HT, veteran actor Lilliput, who has worked in sitcoms such as ‘Dekh Bhai Dekh’, shared his grievances about Shah Rukh’s portrayal of a dwarf in the film.
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Liliput Faruqui #actor #entertainerPosted by Lilliput The Actor on Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Lilliput explains, “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? 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.”
Posted by Lilliput The Actor on Thursday, 15 February 2018
Talking about the emotional impact dwarfism has on a person, and its absence in the movie, he said, “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.”
“Shah Rukh Khan looks short-heighted but not like a dwarf because a dwarf’s body structure itself is quite different. He appears to be a normal human being with short height,” he had said in a previous interview during the film’s release.
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