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pallavi25

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Posted: 6 years ago

#41

Originally posted by: Hereiamtoo
pallavi, I definitely think that there is a 'meta-level' concerning SRK in Zero. Yes, I also thought that stretching his arms in the romantic song was self-ironic.
Okay with Kamal Hassan as somebody he admires without wanting to copy his dwarf-role.

Not copy, but inspired, he was inspired by Kamal Haasan, who is his senior and a Great actor.

Yes, theres a load of Meta in Zero

Have u read Bhardwaj Rangan's review of Zero? He has totally nailed it 👏

https://www.filmcompanion.in/zero-review-baradwaj-rangan-this-very-literal-flight-of-fancy-is-the-years-most-audacious-love-story/

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Hereiamtoo

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Posted: 6 years ago

#42

Yeah, read it after having watched the movie...and yes, he 'nailed' some of the meta-thinking. Maybe he was even the only one who noticed that there was some (did not read all the professional reviews), at least nobody except you and me seemed to have seen this layer (I don't remember having read about before).

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pallavi25

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Posted: 6 years ago

#43

Originally posted by: Hereiamtoo
Yeah, read it after having watched the movie...and yes, he 'nailed' some of the meta-thinking. Maybe he was even the only one who noticed that there was some (did not read all the professional reviews), at least nobody except you and me seemed to have seen this layer (I don't remember having read about before).

Also Rangan's astute comment that its a Tall tale of a short guy was quite apt, I thought

it was like Adventures of Baron Munchausen... the story seems to have a lot of fantasy, deliberate exaggeration and flights of fancy. the absurdity is deliberate...like Babita Kumari's melodramatic tale abt her parents tragic fateful story, a fake story she tells to teach Bauaa a lesson

"But then, would you believe Babita Kumari's story about her parents, which travels from Madagascar to Egypt to Yemen? This is too scattered a screenplay to pin down the "unreliable narrator trope on, but how else do you explain why Bauua's height is pegged at 4'2 in one scene and 4'6 in another? I was reminded, throughout, of fanciful, outlandish novels where the protagonist doesn't "grow up, in a sense say, Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees, or John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany (where the protagonist is, again, a dwarf). The "logical questions melt away because Rai and his writer, Himanshu Sharma, are in such firm control of the absurdity of it all. This is, after all, a film that opens like a Western, takes detours into the musical and the melodrama, before taking a jaw-dropping leap into sci-fi"

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Rishani

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Posted: 6 years ago

#44

Originally posted by: Thug-Leader

last year's top 3 grossing movies had leads playing an immoral asshole in Sanju, a villain in Padmavat and a chichora who later became good in Simmba.
Raazi also had a lead who did things which where absolutely horrible, and we even had a thread in the forum discussing whether she is really the heroine or an antihero.

None of these movies had people playing goody goody roles who only do good things, they were all with negative/ grey shades or did horrible things.
I haven't seen Andhadhun yet, but reading threads here discussing the movie, Ayushmann's character wasn't a good person either.

So it is not like public doesn't get antiheroes, agar film hi acchi nahi bani ho toh usme audience ko pasand nahi ayega na.

Totally agree!

this logic that "Indian audience didn't get it" or "Indian audience doesn't root for flawed characters" or it was too intellectual for Indian audience etc etc. - I just don't get it!

Indian audience appreciates good movies...off late if a movie is good it has worked...if it's bad then even the superstars have been unable to do anything about it.

I personally love both Shahrukh and Aamir but their movies this year Zero and TOH were pathetic to say the least! Picture achi banegi to chalegi..

and on topic..

I think SRK made zero because he wanted to work with Anand L Rai and also he seems to be always interested in projects involving VFX

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Hereiamtoo

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Posted: 6 years ago

#45

As I'm equally sure that Aanand and Himanshu were in "firm control" of their story, I enjoyed that Baradwaj had the same opinion. I also liked this flying through genres which - in my eyes - belongs to the 2nd layer of the movie (cinema as an art form)...hence I agree with the "tall tale".

Still remains the question why SRK made the movie. Should he not know about the snares he would/could confront in the domestic market?

FreeBird, I'm not inclined to accept those arguments either ("this logic that "Indian audience didn't get it" or "Indian audience doesn't root for flawed characters" or it was too intellectual for Indian audience etc etc. - I just don't get it!")

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MercurialMedusa

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Posted: 6 years ago

#46

Because he has money n means to make it. Yo!! 😆

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lailaaaa

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Posted: 6 years ago

#47

He keeps trying new things, but the budgets are too big and the audience isn't impressed. He needs to re-evaluate his script choices and stop playing the King Khan/Rahul card in each movie and interfering with original scripts. All the directors he's given flops with have done great work without him, but as soon as SRK comes in the picture they flop.

I think Zero was another attempt to do something new, with more VFX, and classic bollywood actresses, but it failed big time. Maybe he thought he could capitalize on Rai's direction, but for that ya gotta be the director's actor, not the other way around. Always been an SRK fan, so tough to see him struggle.. until then I'll keep rewatching Kal Ho Na Ho, Devdas, the classics!

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Hereiamtoo

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Posted: 6 years ago

#48

Hi lailaaa :)

So he wanted to do something new...wasn't there a lot of "new"? But was it something completely new?? What exactly was this "new" he may have wanted to make?

Your other thoughts fit also better in MoonOrchid's thread about why the movie didn't connect.

Edited by Hereiamtoo - 6 years ago