Katrina Kaif reveals she recorded an audition for Anushka Sharma’s role in Zero, says film was previously titled Katrina Meri Jaan with her double role

Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif recently shared that she was very eager to take on Anushka Sharma’s role in the film Zero. She was so determined that she even went as far as recording an audition tape, playing the character portrayed by Anushka. In Aanand Rai’s Zero, Katrina played the role of Babita Kumari, a glamorous superstar. The movie starred Shah Rukh Khan as a vertically-challenged man and Anushka as a NASA scientist who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

In an interview with Mid-day, Katrina said, “In Zero I actually wanted to play Anushka’s role.” Katrina said that she became very attached to Anushka’s role and was fixated on doing it. She said, “When the narration got over, I said ‘sir, let me do that.’ He said, ‘no beta it’s already cast.’ He didn’t say it’s already cast. I think he said that  ‘we’ve already kind of thought of someone.’” Undeterred by this, Katrina took matters into her own hands and recorded an audition of herself portraying the character and sent it to the director.

She said, “I showed it to him on the laptop and he watched it and he actually thought about it he was like ‘I am really moved that you’ve done this give me a few days.’ So that gave me hope.”

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The actor explained that she felt unsure for a few days, becoming really attached to the role she wanted. She admitted that this made it hard for her to judge if the role that was offered to her was actually a good fit. But it was Shah Rukh Khan, who encouraged her to take a chance on the film.

Katrina also opened up about how she was supposed to have a double role in the film. The film was initially tired ‘Katrina Meri Jaan’ and it also had a different script. She said, “Before that (Katrina Meri Jaan) was a different script then this (Zero) became a different script and then Shah Rukh became a part of this film. But it was honestly his conviction that made me do the film.”

On the work front, Katrina was recently seen in the film Merry Christmas opposite Vijay Sethupathi.