Shah Rukh Khan made a strong comeback at the box office last year with three big hits, but it's important to remember the tough phase he faced before that. In a recent interview with Variety, the actor talked about how the failure of his 2018 movie Zero left him feeling like he didn’t want to act anymore. ADVERTISEMENT Shah Rukh Khan shared that he was scheduled to begin a new movie in January 2019, just a month after Zero was released in December 2018.
The movie in question was reportedly Saare Jahan Se Achha, a biopic about Rakesh Sharma, India’s first astronaut. It was set to be directed by Mahesh Mathai and produced by Roy Kapur Films. However, Shah Rukh has now explained why he decided to back out of the project at the last minute.
Shah Rukh Khan said, “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.
” Superstar Shah Rukh Khan added yet another feather to his cap. Last night, the actor was honoured with a lifetime achievement award, the so-called Pardo alla Carriera, or Career Leopard, at the 77th edition of th.