Shah Rukh and I aren’t friends: Salman
Sreenivasan Jain
Saturday, August 23, 2008: (Mumbai):
NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain speaks to Salman Khan about what went wrong in his friendship with Shah Rukh Khan, his relationship with Katrina Kaif and everything you wanted to know.
NDTV: I know that you have spoken about this whole Shah Rukh Khan episode I tell what happens it’s one of those thinks that you dismissed as media gossip and it started going public that kind of made it snow ball.
Salman Khan: You know what happens usually people ask this question usually the fear is this he shouldn’t stop the interview here itself. I like this. I have spoken about this we are grown up people we are not warriors we come here to work but you grow up you are thinking he is good with his friends and family I am good with my friends and family there nothing more to it just there was a fight personal khatm ho gayi baat.
NDTV: What upset you so much that you want to talk about it?
NDTV: Because itna sources se aa raha tha ke iss source se ye aa raha hai uss source se wo aa raha hai (there was lot coming from some unconfirmed sources) the whole thing was coming on to me that he’s done it again. Suddenly I was looking like I was misfit in society as it is I don’t have like the most amazing reputation its varies from anger to bad boy to good hearted so it’s a huge confusion. So this is something I wanted to clear and there is no point in pretending I don’t feel the need to pretend his got his point of view he is right and whatever he feels so and I am right in my own way.
NDTV: The reports were coming that you started it.
Salman: Why would I start there was no reason for me to start.
NDTV: Some party
Salman: There was a problem some two years ago two-three years back quiet some time ago grown up people sort it out but now it’s two different personalities.
NDTV: You are talking about the trouble on the sets.
Salman: Yes that time so there’s no need for some one use to call you sir sir.
NDTV: He used to call you that.
Salman: Yes, when he used to struggle so there is no point in disrespect
NDTV: Salman I know you dont you said it is personnal but you want to clear the air that what happen?
Salman: Nothing it’s done.
NDTV: It was about the shows that you are doing.
Salman: Na na I dont think it’s that’s going to make any difference I don’t think he would stop that low. I don’t think that would make a difference to him.
NDTV: Tomorrow you might have a problem with a journalist. It will not be blown out of proportion. Oh it’s so sad. How did it happen, why did it happen? Just because two people are from the same fraternity and they are both doing well. so
NDTV: But you are not friends anymore.
Salman: yeah yeah
NDTV: Finished
Salman: Yeah
NDTV: Were you ever friends?
Salman: Yeah yeah I took him as a brother. For me he was like Sohail and Arbaaz. That’s what hurt me.
NDTV: And this is right from ages back?
Salman: Since the time he used to be with Sangeeta, my sister, his wife.
NDTV: You used to stay together I’v heard, in days of his struggle.
NDTV: Yeah he used to hang out in the house all the time. That’s why.
NDTV: Are you very sensitive with these kind of stuff. Do you take things very personally?
Salman: Depends. I let a lot of things go for the longest time and at times something somewhere just hurts me and I back off. I don’t like to pretend. And once it’s over then I will not do anything about it. I will not wish ill. I just back off. You have no right to try to malign that person, trying to play with that person. Khatam khatam.aap apne raste. woh apne raste. Like my father’s partnership broke up with Javed sahib not once has he, you know, they meet cordially, they meet politely.
NDTV: But it’s never the same but if someone was to come and say they were sorry and that they feel sad that they have upset you, would you be willing to change your mind?
Salman: You know cracks in a wall can be fixed, cracks in relationships can’t be fixed. I will be fine. Ok, cool, theek hain forgiveness is divine.
NDTV: But what if someone says like Vivek Oberoi came and said sorry to you but you didn’t care about it.
Salman: You know doing this in press, in front of everybody that kind of stuff if you want to act, act on screen. Disrespect.. I can’t act. By mistake I have messed up so many times but it’s not a planned thing. Agar kuch ho gaya (If something happens) and then you realise in the morning and you are like I am sorry then it works then it’s ok but if you plan something and do it then it’s like.
NDTV: So, Salman you said that there are so many variations of what people think you are the bad boy, the good boy. There’s a reputation of people seeing you in controversies. They see you going in and out of court for black bug and various charges. Did that bother you did that upset you.
Salman: You have done it you have to face the allegations. You have not done it then you in your mind you have not done it. Then you can’t do anything about it. People think that I’ve done it but there’s nothing I can change. So jaao bhaiyya jaao, so you know that you’ve done nothing wrong so go away with your head held up high, come out with you head held up high.
NDTV: You were saying that the whole thing was just you were wrongly framed in that Black Buck shooting case.
Salman: It was a misunderstanding, a total misunderstanding. We tried to clear it then it didn’t happen, it didn’t work out so in court you can’t give an emotional speech, yeh yeh aisa …so they go very technical.
NDTV: What do you think happened…do you think there was an attempt just because you were a famous person, you were a celebrity, there was an attempt to nail you.
Salman: See, whatever bad, whatever bad, lot of good comes out as well see today the Black Buck is no more an endangered species you know shikaar, shikaar was hardly one per cent but people used to hunt and kill animals but the actual problem is the deforestation, there’s no water, there’s no fruit bearing trees, there’s nothing, there’s no jungles left. And even according to the global warming there has to be 35 per cent jungles in every country, where’s the jungle, there’s no jungle. There are more trees in the cities than in the forests, where are the animals going to go, that’s how they’re going to die. But shikaar because of that aap salman khan ko andar daal sakte ho toh kisi ko bhi andar daal sakte ho (if you can put Salman in jail then anybody). So everyone it became such a high profile thing, which is good.
NDTV: It’s extraordinary to see Salman Khan talk in the defence of the Black Buck because the public reputation is different because of what happened.
Salman: Yeah well, that’s what they think.
NDTV: How was it doing jail time, was it tough on you?
Salman: I was mentally somewhere else, I was mentally seen in my home chilling out. I was sketching, I was working out, I was eating whatever they gave me to eat.
NDTV: Were people friendly, were the other convicts friendly?
Salman: Yeah, I was not allowed to meet anybody so…there was one person with me that’s all.
NDTV: And Salman as far as you films are concerned, you’ve been having a pretty good run but I was just going back into your filmography and you’ve had some ups and downs in the past. Did you ever feel that you had any regrets about the bad patch?
Salman: See there was one bad patch that was there (V- Bad patch as in somewhere around ‘92-’93 and another bad patch around ‘00 - ‘02) yeah that was in my whole career I must have done 70 plus films out of them five or six have not done well, so if that is the bad patch then…what is the good patch.
NDTV: Do you feel that the majority of your films Ii am talking about films like Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge, Chal Mere Bhai, Kahin Pyaar Ho Na Jaye.
Salman: They were all commission earners, they were not super-duper hits, yeah they were all hits, yeah they were all B+ films, Nishchay, Suryavamshi, Jagruti all these films were Chandramukhi, Chand ka Tukda yeah this was the phase. (NDTV: Tthis was the phase that was the bad one) and that was the phase when I wanted to buy myself a house, so at that point of time and (NDTV: So you were just signing on whatever you ever getting) no but the thing is that all these people…you start of making a film and you think its good script but then somewhere it goes wrong and when a senior director is directing you can’t say anything, so when you work .. yeh script change kiya, woh change kiya, it becomes a different film altogether, phir kya karein, you can’t say sir I can’t do this film, you promised me this…that’s not in me. Then shot do wapas aa jao.
NDTV: But Salman do you think that it has dented the perception as an actor. People because of that films are not taking you seriously.
Salman: Because I don’t scream I’m the best, I’m best, I’m the best. I don’ t need to say that the Box office says that. Even without big producer and directors they do fairly well.
NDTV: I know you are a huge commercial star but there is a always thing that haunts you about you’re acting ability, people say whenever it comes to great actors they name others but you don’t bother.
Salman: I don’t bother but I think Govinda is by far the best actor from anybody put anybody in front of him.
NDTV: Not Aamir Khan.
Salman: Anybody..anybody.. he’s so brilliant that nobody can’t stand in front of him.
NDTV: Really.
Salman: - He’s outstanding.
NDTV: But you like that kind of acting spontaneous…charismatic
Salman: There’s so much of problem that’s going on in our country that they are stressed out. If you can go and have a blast and come back and by the way .comedy is the most difficult thing to do.
NDTV: What about someone like Aamir who prepares for his role.
Salman: He’s very hard working that’s where his sincerity, he really works and that’s why he looks different in his film.
NDTV: But you..
Salman: I don’t do that, it’s different way of working.
NDTV: But you respect what he does.
Salman: Yes Yes.
NDTV: But you don’t think it’s required that it’s not necessary for an actor.
Salman: Aamir feels that way that means he might have thought something naa. If I’ll do that it’ll look like a practice. Aamir does it so much that it looks effortless if I’ll do it I will not be able to do it to that hardwork then they’ll say arrey yaar ispe bahut effort dala hai once that effort is seen you are not good.
NDTV: So you don’t believe in broadcasting from the roof top that you are No 1
Salman: When four people say that he has done good work then everybody recognises it. Oh everyone says kya kaam kia, superb, agar ye humko diya hota toh, toh hum bhi kar saktein hai but we don’t wanna do that. Kya ookahd kya liya what have we achieved.
NDTV: For you who is no 1.
Salman: Aamir, there’s Akshay whose films are doing really well.
NDTV: Shah Rukh
Salman: Currently those who do 4-4 pictures…Akshay.
NDTV: He is much bigger.
Salman: Much bigger.
Salman: Because he is working.
NDTV: Salman are you a very spiritual person
Salman: Ya very spiritual
NDTV: There’s difference between religion and spirituality.
Salman: Ya I know…
NDTV: So, you are spiritual but not religious
Salman: Ofcourse I’m religious..ya ya..
NDTV: That’s a side that people don’t know about.
Salman: Ya ya They know. I don’t pray when I’m sad. I don’t pray when I’m really upset.
NDTV: Whom do you pray to?
Salman: Almighty. Anybody, Allah. My mother is a Hindu. So I go to a Hanuman mandir, so she takes me to a Gamesh Mandir I go there.
NDTV: So it’s not like one God.
Salman: No.. Before we end Salman, the other big rumour that always floats around is you and Katrina. There are always rumours about you and Katrina spiliting up and you guys are being together for how long five years right.
Salman: Five years if that ever happens you’ll see it. God forbidden if it happens, I’ll not talk about it, we broke up it happened earlier also. Abhi toh kuch aosa hai nahi ki tootega.
NDTV: I have read somewhere that this might be something permanent.
Salman: People have got me married 150 times.
NDTV: Honestly I have read somewhere
NDTV: Ya next year may be next to next may be this year they ask me when are you getting married?. So I tell them cut the conversation short. Next year. All the very best. Thank You
Salman: Thank you.
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Who are Bollywood’s most intelligent actors?
25 Aug, 2008, 1411 hrs IST, IANS
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MUMBAI: Who is the most intelligent actor in Bollywood? Many names come to mind, but directors have their own favourite stars even though most of them say it is difficult to apply a uniform yardstick.
The names that topped their lists include Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah and Akshay Kumar.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: I’m still too new. I’ve worked with the most intelligent actors in this country like Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri and Aamir Khan. Right now I feel very special because I’ve someone like Waheeda Rehman on the sets. She is too special. For me, to differentiate intelligence of all these wonderful actors would be presumptuous. My journey has been too short.
After I put together a larger perspective, maybe I can comment better. They’re all super-accomplished. I’m not being diplomatic. I’m as nervous directing Abhishek Bachchan today in ‘Delhi 6′ as I was when I directed his father in ‘Aks’. I’d say every actor from Raveena Tandon to Sonam Kapoor has added to my learning curve. I’m always learning from my actors.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali: It would have to be Mr. (Amitabh) Bachchan. He brings decades of his experience on the table and yet he never allows it to show in his performances. When I was doing ‘Black’ with him, on many occasions he would be able to understand a scene fully even before I had explained it. And then he’d take it much further than where I thought it would go. The hallmark of a truly intelligent actor is that he never allows the baggage of his wisdom and experience to weigh down his performance. Amitji can interpret a scene in a hundred ways. But finally he knows which is the best way to deal with a moment.
The way he would show sudden fits of absolute forgetfulness as an Alzheimer patient in ‘Black’ still gives me goose bumps. I’d give anything to work with him again.
Sudhir Mishra: It is very hard to single out any one actor. Anil Kapoor, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi are all highly intelligent. Kareena Kapoor has an instinctive intelligence. Shabana seeks out a context to every part. She understands a part cerebrally and then gets emotionally attached to it. Chitrangada Singh is stunning. On the first day of shooting (of ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’) I was talking to her like a child. On the last day I spoke to her as though she was Naseeruddin Shah.
Naseer is the most fantastically intelligent actor I’ve worked with. And he doesn’t let the preparation show on screen. He was in my first film ‘Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin’. Everything I know about acting came from watching him in front of the camera. Naseer taught me there’s no generic rule for acting. Every actor is different. You need to hit the right notes.
Currently Kay Kay Menon continues to be a surprise. A lot of people say things about Shiney Ahuja, but he’s very focused with me. Does commercial success spoil actors? It didn’t spoil Aamir Khan or Saif Ali Khan. Saif works with a very rare intelligence. He creates characters without fuss.
There’re so many super-intelligent actors. Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan know exactly what they’re doing. Mr. Bachchan can make the most stupid scene look convincing. Sadly many brilliant actors choose stardom above talent.
Vipul Shah: I’ve worked with two major actors - Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar. No one has the creative intelligence of Mr. Bachchan. He keeps things very simple while shooting. I’ll be the heart, you be the brain, he says on the sets. He takes instructions carefully, then adds subtle tones to it.
But as for knowing what would work with the audience, there’s no one to beat Akshay. Big films that he said won’t work didn’t. Akshay knows when something is missing in a scene. At the last minute he’ll do something to make the scene more interesting. He can actually see the audience reacting to a scene while shooting it. When we were shooting ‘Namastey London’ in Punjab, he suddenly came up with the idea of wearing sunglasses in his own house. When I questioned him on it, he said it was because his character wanted to impress the girl.
As for my wife Shefali Shah, she transforms before camera. She applies another kind of intelligence to her characters … quite different from Amitji and Akshay.
Kunal Kohli: I’ve worked with some of the most intelligent actors in the industry - from Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor in ‘Mujhse Dosti Karoge’, Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in ‘Hum Tum’ and ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic’, Aamir Khan, Kajol and Tabu in ‘Fanaa’. It’s very difficult to apply any uniform yardstick of intelligence to all these wonderful actors.
I’ve always been an Aamir fan even when I was a journalist. When I finally got a chance to direct him, I was able to bring Aamir together with an actress he had never been paired with. Kajol and Aamir are supposed to be such different actors.
But it’s just a myth that Aamir likes to over-rehearse. In fact, he dislikes too many takes and would prefer to go with the first take. He brings to the table a kind of intelligence that makes a film’s quality superior with every passing moment.
There is no consistency in his interview, it seems that either he was sleeping ( which he does mostly as we have read it ) or he was drunk…..Now however he says anything against SRK….SRK will remain SRK…
It seems Salman Khan wants to be friend with SRK….And I think SRK will like to be his friend straightaway.
Salman, you can get peace only and only in one way, that you be friend with SRK….Thats it thats the best solutions of your restless interviews, blogging and whinging….Honestly get some peace by talking to him, phone SRK go to his place and finish this everyday chakchak bakbak ….We are fed up listening and reading about you….And Thank GOD that this event happened that we came to know about real Salman Khan…
And dear Sallu, where doesn’t argument happen? Every where and more or less with anyone even the big arguements as well but still the forget and forgive works and the life goes on. If everyone starts doing like you ( because Thank GOD everyone hasn’t got that sort of family that they will support for even the worst thing someone does )then everywhere the life will be hell and people will be seen fighting like wild. This big films are made, do you think nothing happens on the sets, of course it must be, but they all sort out among themselves and keep working, but they don’t blow out like you….you are taking this event just like its QAYAMAT….because you haven’t met someone like *YOU*….*Your mirror image.* Wow, Salman what will be that day when it happens?
Every one in the industry is pampering you, mostly they are scared of you and only few like you…. Just go and have a row with someone who is really really like YOU and then you will see the consequences…And you yourself will think …yaar, SHAH RUKH KHAN was a lot better than this, poor boy didn’t say anything. Salman, life is very cruel on your wrong doings at the moment your parents and brothers are favouring you this is why you think you can do any worst thing and nothing is going to be retaliated….For that with a lot lot respect, honestly with due respect I will blame to your family.
In the end I will like to say if you are spiritual and religious then prove it….Forgive all friends, and by the way real person who believes in religion and spirituality will not be implored to ask to forgive and they themselves will like to be friends again with everyone x y z etc.
Sorry, for my bad comments, but I don’t like it when parents don’t tell off their children to improve their ways. So, it just irritates me, in fact they should come up in front and do something.
how many times we will discuss this?
This man really sucks now
Nishint
everyone has his/her own opinion….so to talk on that is idiotic
and if people say that someone makes a silly scene convincing thats ridiculous !
“NDTV: Were you ever friends?
Salman: Yeah yeah I took him as a brother. For me he was like Sohail and Arbaaz. That’s what hurt me.
NDTV: And this is right from ages back?
Salman: Since the time he used to be with Sangeeta, my sister, his wife.
NDTV: You used to stay together I’v heard, in days of his struggle.
Salman: Yeah he used to hang out in the house all the time. That’s why.”
Does he want us to believe that he helped SRK in his struggle phase? Everyone knows SRK had offers from Hema Malini and Rakesh Roshan right after Fauji. But he wasn’t taking up the offers. It was only after his mother died, he decided to move to Mumbai and the first person to sign him were FC Mehra and Viveck Vasvani (his friend) and the first director he worked with was Aziz Mirza (his director in Circus).
BTW, I watched the interview on TV. He was looking jaded and completely lost. It appeared as if he will sleep anytime. No wonder, the interview was so inconsistent and boring.
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“”NDTV: Were you ever friends?
Salman: Yeah yeah I took him as a brother. For me he was like Sohail and Arbaaz. That’s what hurt me.
NDTV: And this is right from ages back?
Salman: Since the time he used to be with Sangeeta, my sister, his wife.
NDTV: You used to stay together I’v heard, in days of his struggle.
Salman: Yeah he used to hang out in the house all the time. That’s why.”"
Does he want us to believe that he helped SRK in his struggle phase? Everyone knows SRK had offers from Hema Malini and Rakesh Roshan right after Fauji. But he wasn’t taking up the offers. It was only after his mother died, he decided to move to Mumbai and the first person to sign him were FC Mehra and Viveck Vasvani (his friend) and the first director he worked with was Aziz Mirza (his director in Circus).
BTW, I watched the interview on TV. He was looking jaded and completely lost. It appeared as if he will sleep anytime. No wonder, the interview was so inconsistent and boring.
“NDTV: You used to stay together I’v heard, in days of his struggle.
Salman: Yeah he used to hang out in the house all the time. That’s why.”
Does he want us to believe that he helped SRK in his struggle phase? Everyone knows SRK had offers from Hema Malini and Rakesh Roshan right after Fauji. But he wasn’t taking up the offers. It was only after his mother died, he decided to move to Mumbai and the first person to sign him were FC Mehra and Viveck Vasvani (his friend) and the first director he worked with was Aziz Mirza (his director in Circus).
BTW, I watched the interview on TV. He was looking jaded and completely lost. It appeared as if he will sleep anytime. No wonder, the interview was so inconsistent and boring.
close this topic…its over…
Guys, it is said that he who laughs last, laughs the longest. Bollywood fans will soon realize what this means.
I personaly like both of them.. But SRK more.. But i’v 2 admit sallu seems lost in his world and believes his notions right! And i couldnt completly understand dis interview.. Some weird ans. for some poorly framed questions(atleast on paper). Ya he’s strange. Helps outsiders but fights with insiders! I think he’s got d right 2 4give or 2 not. He got angry bcoz srk could nt do a sp. app. in his film. Which is stupid! And d most sucking ans. govinda bettr than any1! Thats bcoz he’s gr8 frnd with him. And he says he’s given only 5-6 flops! Has he lost it? 5-6 hits only! And he doesnt take his acting seriously et all! Sucking..