The film’s first half is spent on setting up this unconventional romance. Somewhere along, Bollywood diva Babita Kumari makes an entry into Bauua’s life, adding to the drama. The physical challenges aside, their personalities are also worlds apart and that eventually heightens the drama in the plot. He’s vertically-challenged and she suffers from cerebral palsy, so their shortcomings become a common ground and that creates a new space for a relationship between equals. Things change dramatically when Bauua stumbles into the highly qualified scientist, Aafia’s life. He is impulsive and self-absorbed, but his height hardly ever dampens his confidence. The story starts off in Meerut, where Bauua Singh squanders his father’s (Tigmanshu Dhulia) money while being besotted with Bollywood superstar Babita Kumari (Katrina Kaif) at all times. Some of the visuals and romantic moments are striking, but most of them disappear as quickly as a shooting star. In doing so, the film tries to put forth too many ideas and doesn’t quite do justice to any one. This Meerut-to-Mars romance dabbles with ideas of science, interplanetary travel and closer to home, conventional themes like unrequited and undying love. Zero has a story with an interesting and inspiring concept that doesn’t hold back with its outrageousness. Zero Review: A great concept needs an equally skillful execution, but not every good story gets the treatment it deserves.

Along the way, it meets with various interesting challenges as well. Their unlikely love story travels from India to the US and all the way to outer space too. He falls in love with a scientist, Aafia (Anushka Sharma), who is affected by cerebral palsy. Zero Story: Bauua Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) is a vertically-challenged man from Meerut, who wears his heart on his sleeve.

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