There were speculations that actor Shah Rukh Khan would be featured in ‘Saare Jahan Se Achha’ centered on the life of Rakesh Sharma, right after the premiere of Zero. Yet, he took everyone by surprise when he backed off from the project at the eleventh hour.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan had a fantastic re-entry into Bollywood with three smashing hits last year, yet he hasn’t always had smooth sailing. When talking to Variety recently, he opened up about his 2018 movie, ‘Zero’, which didn’t perform as well as expected. Following that disappointment, he confessed, he momentarily lost his passion for acting.
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Shah Rukh had revealed his intention to kickstart a new movie shoot in January of 2019, just on the tail of his release, Zero, in December 2018. The rumored new project was Saare Jahan Se Achha, a biographical film on Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to venture into space. Helmed by Mahesh Mathai and bankrolled by Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films, all seemed in place. Yet, recently Shah Rukh let slip the reasons for his abrupt exit from the said film.
The Jawan actor revealed, “I called the producer and I said to him that I don’t want to work for a year. He said, ‘It’s not possible. You don’t sit without working for even a minute. So you don’t like the film, say no, don’t say you’re not working for a year’. And a year and a half later, he did call and he said, ‘I was really surprised you actually are not working’. So I just didn’t want to work. I just didn’t want to act. I didn’t feel like acting. Because for me, acting is genuinely very, very organic.”
SRK further added, “I’ve always maintained that the day I don’t feel like getting up in the morning and conquering the shoot, I don’t want to work. It wasn’t the failure of the films, to be honest. I was doing a film in January, and this (Zero release) was in December. Very unprofessional of me. I just woke up and I said, ‘I don’t want to go and shoot this film’.” Shah Rukh Khan is gearing up for his next venture, a film called ‘King’, directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
