Veteran actor Lilliput who has featured in Dekh Bhai Dekh and other films said that he was not impressed with Shah Rukh Khan's character of a dwarf in Aanand L. Rai's 2018 film Zero featuring Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif. 

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Shah Rukh played Bauaa Singh in the movie, a quick-witted dwarf who falls for Anushka Sharma's character of a scientist with cerebral palsy. 

During an interaction with Bollywood Hungama, Lilliput said that Shah Rukh should not have taken up the role for two reasons. The first being that there is "nothing to act" about being a dwarf. 

He said, "Even when I did not know the story of the film, my reaction was still that Shah Rukh Khan should not have done this film. A normal-looking person can still act as someone who is blind, doesn’t have a leg or an arm, is deaf or mute. He will have to act. What is there to 'act' when playing a dwarf? How will you convince someone that you are a dwarf? When you are so famous." 

Lilliput further added that SRK's Zero did not show the emotional impact that dwarfism has on a person. 

He said, "When you decided to play a dwarf, you didn’t touch upon the emotional, psychological, and social problems that dwarves go through. You didn’t show the trauma and tragedy of a dwarf. Anushka Sharma played a woman with a far more tragic story than him. She couldn’t speak or walk. He was the one jumping around, doing everything, what problem does he have? So even the script was weird. Don’t know how someone so intelligent, successful... they too make mistakes." 

Even before the film’s release, he had said in an interview with The Quint that Shah Rukh didn’t look like a dwarf. He had said, "Shah Rukh Khan looks short-heighted but not like a dwarf because a dwarf’s body structure itself is quite different. He appears to be a normal human being with short height."

For the uninformed, Zero was a box office flop and was also not received well by the critics. Both Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma are yet to announce their next projects since then.