Aanand L Rai On His Zero Actor: Even If You Cut Two Feet Away From Khan Saab, He’d Still Stand Tall

After months of speculations, Aanand L Rai and Shah Rukh Khan finally released the name of their next. After getting names like Dwarf, Batla and so on, the film is finally titled Zero.

Recently, director Aanand L Rai spoke to Mumbai Mirror about Zero, Shah Rukh Khan and much more. During the interview, he was asked the reason behind the title Zero and why he chose December 21 to release the film.

Rai said, “I grew up in a simple, middle-class family without a car, air conditioner or five-star dinners, yet I was perfectly happy because happiness, as I’ve come to realise, is a state of mind. You can touch infinity even when you are zero, like Khan Saab’s (Shah Rukh Khan) character. December is a month when we celebrate life and what better time for a boy who celebrates that he is physically incomplete and in his incompleteness completes others as he travels from Meerut to New York. There is a beauty in incompleteness we are celebrating.”

Ask him about the reason of choosing Shah Rukh Khan for the film, he said that Zero has a wide reach and SRK will take it to the world. He said, “I needed a big star and even if you cut two feet away from Khan Saab, he’d still stand tall. Also, this story has a wide reach and he will take it to the world.”