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Abstract
Disability has been a source of stock features of characterizations and an opportunistic metaphorical device in literature. The centre of Indian cinema, Bollywood, in particular, has been romancing disability on and off. Disabled persons have been the object of representational treatments. The themes of disability have been depicted by Indian cinema whenever and wherever they are required as both where disability lends a distinctive idiosyncrasy to any character that differentiates the character from the anonymous background of the ‘norm’. Mitchell and Snyder (2000) calls this strategy Narrative Prosthesis or as a discursive dependency. Employing the framework of narrative prosthesis, this paper proposes a framework of cinematic prosthesis to decode disability in Zero (Anand L Rai, 2018) and offers a critical review of the film from a Disability Studies perspective.