#ZeroTrailer: 5 questions the film starring Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma leaves unanswered
The Zero trailer is 3.15-minutes of leftover food from last night’s party — Chinese, Indian, Mughlai, maybe some Italian too — tossed into a bowl like a salad. All good food — just really confusing together.
I wonder if the makers deliberately left all these things ambiguous to make way for trailer 2 — a known marketing ploy often used for blockbuster films. If not, then let me admit that it truly went over my head in parts.
Bauua or Shah Rukh Khan is a vertically challenged person in the film, who falls in love with Anushka Sharma, who happens to be wheelchair-bound. For a moment there, SRK judges Anushka on this ‘flaw’ of hers, as it were.
Oh, the irony!
Katrina Kaif, on the other hand, is a glamorous movie star, clearly suffering from alcoholism. How she befriends Bauua is a question left unanswered.
Zero is a movie that deals with ‘incompleteness’ in people, yet it ends up being a tad too insensitive in parts to both Bauua and Anushka’s characters. We wonder why.
Here are 5 questions the trailer left unanswered:
Anushka Sharma’s accent
At one point, she speaks like an old woman without teeth, at others, she sounds like Priyanka Chopra from Barfii. The point is, she doesn’t seem to get her accent right, especially when she’s opposite Shah Rukh Khan. Case in point: Jab Harry Met Sejal and her imperfect Gujju accent.
Hindustan ka sapna
Was that a reference to an ISRO missile or Katrina Kaif, the movie star? The last scene at least points at the former possibility. But then, that would mean that Zero is stepping into the sci-fi zone. The question is, how are they going to make the transition convincingly?
Katrina, the movie star
How did a nobody from Meerut befriend a celebrity? Was there a Fan-esque kidnapping involved? Well, I wouldn’t be surprised, give SRK’s love of drawing references from his own older films.
Who is marrying or leaving whom?
SRK and Anushka are clearly in love — until Katrina steps in. You even notice Anushka pull off a Kareena Kapoor Khan from 3 Idiots when she’s racing through the streets in a bride’s attire in her wheelchair. Yet, she’s left alone at the altar. So, he must be with Kat, right? But then, even she throws him out.
Will someone please explain this to me?
The rocket scene
Whatever direction your brain was led to in the first three minutes of the trailer, this final scene is going to just blow it up. The operative word here is ‘blow’ because you’re now looking at a rocket being fired from Indian soil. I am so confused.