Mumbai: Bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan, who ruled the Indian film industry for 3 decades, has revealed that he had decided to temporarily quit acting after the failure of his film ‘Zero’.
According to Indian media, Shah Rukh Khan spoke openly about the failure of his 2018 flop Zeera in his recent interview.
Shah Rukh Khan said that the failure of the film ‘Zero’ had a profound impact on my career, I decided to take a break from films for some time after this failure and this gap lasted for about 5 years. In the year 2023, he returned to the film world through the film ‘Pathan’.
The megastar said that in December 2018, the film ‘Zero’ flopped and after that in January 2019, I was supposed to start shooting for the new film, but one day I woke up in the morning and called the producer of the film and said that I am not going to do the film. I don’t want to shoot, I won’t do any work for a year.
He said that the name of the film was ‘Saare Jahan Se Ush’ and it was based on the life of Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to go into space, but I refused to do the film at the last moment.
King Khan said that on hearing my refusal, the producer said that if you don’t like the film, you should refuse to work in it but don’t stop acting.
Shahrukh Khan continued his talk and added that after a year and a half I got a phone call from the same producer and he said to me that I can’t believe that you spent a year without acting.
It should be noted that after a gap of 5 years, Shahrukh Khan returned to Bollywood in the year 2023 with his blockbuster film ‘Pathan’.
In the year 2023 itself, after Pathan, Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘Jawan’ and ‘Dinky’ were also released, all three King Khan films did record breaking business at the box office.