Last Updated on 15/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan made a blast in 2023 by giving three back to back big hits ‘Pathan’, ‘Jawaan’ and ‘Dunki’. This super success of his was explosive for Shah Rukh’s fans because their favorite star was making a comeback on the big screen after a big failure in 2018. His film ‘Zero’ flopped badly at the box office.
Even before this, his films ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ and ‘Fan’ had flopped, while ‘Raees’ could not do much wonders. In such a situation, after the flop of ‘Zero’, the public was waiting to see how Shahrukh makes a comeback after this big failure. Now Shahrukh has told how he was feeling in the slow phase after ‘Zero’.
Shahrukh told why he took a break
In a new interview, Shahrukh has revealed that he did not take a break because his films were not doing well. He was on a break because he did not feel like getting up in the morning and going for the shoot.
He said that after the release of ‘Zero’ in December 2018, he had put all his plans on hold from January 2019. Recalling that period, he said that he was about to start shooting for a film but he called the producer and told him that now he does not want to work for a year.
Calling himself ‘unprofessional’, Shah Rukh told Variety, “I have always said that the day I don’t feel like getting up in the morning and going to the shoot, I don’t want to work. To be honest, it was not because of the films failing. I was supposed to do a film in January, and this started happening to me in December. It was very unprofessional of me. I just woke up and said, ‘I don’t want to go shoot this film.'”
The producer did not believe what Shahrukh said
Shahrukh further told that when he called the producer of this film and told him what he wanted, he could not believe it. Shahrukh told, ‘He told me- ‘This cannot happen. You cannot sit without working for a minute. If you do not like the film, then refuse it, do not say that you will not work for a year.’ And after one and a half years, he called back and said- ‘I was very surprised that you are not really working.’ So I just did not feel like working. I did not want to act. Because for me, acting is really a very organic thing, very, very organic.’
Before taking a break, some of Shahrukh’s films were not doing as well as was expected of him. At that time, many people said that Shahrukh was doing more experimental films. But Shahrukh says that there was something special in those films of his which did not work.
He said, ‘Whatever films I do, whether it is ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ or ‘Zero’ or those films like ‘Fan’ which did not do well – I think it was an interesting film. I love that film. Some of my films that I love are the ones that did not do very well.’
Cinema should avoid morality
Shah Rukh said that cinema is a ‘medium of mass communication’ and it speaks to a lot of people. ‘It shouldn’t be intellectual. It shouldn’t be preachy. I always say cinema shouldn’t be moralistic. It should be simple. Some of the films that didn’t do well were so personal that they weren’t simple enough, they were so personal that they were too limited,’ Shah Rukh said.
Talking about Shahrukh’s work front, he will now be seen in Sujoy Ghosh’s film ‘King’. He will be seen with his daughter Suhana Khan in this film and reports suggest that Abhishek Bachchan is playing the villain in this film.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)