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 Salman Khan, born 27 of December, 1965, is the son of the legendary Indian screenwriter Salim Khan who is responsible for such Bollywood hits as Seeta aur Geeta (1972), Zinjeer (1973), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), and Trishul (1978) Starting from his debut movie Biwi Ho To Aisi (1988) Salman's career with its ups and downs of it seemed just like the picture on
the cardiogram machine. Just like any other Bollywood rookie, Salman had a lot
of failures and screw-up's but it is for his handsomeness, natural charisma and
undoubted talent that Salman looked so good in the worst of his projects and
the viewer still loved him.
Even without that some of his movies had so
much success that they still remain unbeatable. His movie Love (1991) where he
starred brought him huge fame and with that Salman came third in the viewers'
favorites' list after Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt. In 1994 the Hum Aapke
Hain Kaun came out and became the one of the most successful Bollywood movies
along with the Deewaar and Zinjeer. And of course one cannot forget the Dushman
Duniya Ka even though Salman had just a supporting actor part in it.
With that in store, the actor was moving slowly
but confident up the career ladder. But despite all of his advancements in the
movie world, it wasn't as bright as it was on the screen in his personal life.
It was rather controversial. Salman has never been one of those persons who
care enough about their reputation. A huge number of controversial events and
scandals was the reason for Salman to get a nickname "The Bad Guy" in
Bollywood. Salman ran over a number of pedestrians with one of those dying
under the wheels of the car, however, this is not the reason why the Indian
courts are attacking the actor for ten years already. It is because in 1998
while hunting the actor shot two black antelopes which are considered the
die-out kind dead. It is only not so long ago that Salman got into prison for a
couple of days after which he paid the bailment.
The most controversial as well as the most
popular of Salman's romances was the one with a first beauty of India, Miss
World Aishwarya Rai. The two met at the shooting of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam which led to them dating. The actors were passionately
in love with each other but with every single day it was getting more and more
obvious that this will not lead the two to something good. Salman was extremely
jealous of Aishwarya. It took him one doubt of her to make him rush to her
house and start numerous scandals. It is told that once he started firing guns
at her door because she didn't open it. For months to pass these stories were
only considered gossips and legends until once Aishwarya was seen with bruises
and later she wrote a police statement where she accused her boyfriend of
beating her up. The actress told the police that Salman broke into her house,
threatened her and was breaking the furniture all over the place. That were
Aishwarya partners that were the reason behind Salman's jealousy and numerous
fights the two had. Once he came to the shooting of Kuch Naa Kaho where
Aishwarya worked with an Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan. After a minute of talk
Salman started to throw his fists out. It is only because of Salman that Aishwarya
has lost her part in one of the most successful films of Bollywood Chalo Ishq
Ladaaye to Rani Mukerji. Salman was very jealous of Shakrukh Khan and he was
always complaining about it. After Shakrukh who also was the producer for the
movie got tired of all of the complaints he decided to simply replace Aishwarya
with Rani Mukerji. This was the last thing Aishwarya could stand. In 2002 the
former Miss World has broken up with Salman Khan and the two didn't even talk
to each other. Salman was outrageous and has cost a bunch of nerves to Aishwarya's
newly found boyfriend - Vivek Oberoi. Salman also couldn't stand anyone near
him recalling the name Aishwarya. It is well documented that he was ready to
fight Rishi Kapoor's (a famous Indian actor, film producer and director) son,
Ranbir Kapoor. It was because of Ranbir trying to attract one of the girls in
the night club and comparing her to Salman's ex-girlfriend saying "Look what a
beauty that is! A real Aishwarya she is!" Salman got mad because of Ranbir's
light-minded manner of saying this and it was very hard for the actor's friend,
Sanjay Dutt to calm Salman down.
It took enough time but eventually Salman
calmed himself down. He apologized to Shakrukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor and
concentrated solely on his work. The actor started to grow again with his
movies regularly become hits. Yeh Hai
Jalwa (2002), Tere Naam (2003), Kyon Ki (2005), No Entry (2005), Maine Pyaar
Kyun Kiya? (2005), Lucky: No Time for Love (2005). The actress called Katrina
Kaif who Salman met at shooting one of his most recent movies is now his
girlfriend. Katrina did not get scared away by the actress reputation and the
fact that she is twenty years younger than the "bad guy of Bollywood". The two
are together since they've met and Salman didn't take the wedding between
Aishwarya Ray and Abhishek Bachchan too hard. Even more than that, Salman and
Aishwarya are now telling the media they are each other's best friends now.
It seems as if Salman Khan is really happy
now. He stars in the successful movies; God Tussi Great Ho one of his recent
ones became the most successful box-office Indian comedy ever in Bollywood's
history. His girlfriend Katrina Kaif is building up an outstanding career in
Bollywood, having no failures in her portfolio. It also seems as if Katrina is
not giving Salman any reasons to be jealous or it can easily be that the actor
is all grown up now. By the way, he was recently very enthusiastic about art
and pictorial art in particular and he started painting as well. Those who had
seen some of the actor's works tell that they are as good as the films he had
been in. All of the money that gets raised by his painting hobby is being
transferred to Salman fund which helps children with cancer diseases and also
mentally sick people.
Salman is, just like he always was,
starring in several movies at one time. It seems like the most anticipated of
them is called Veer by Anil Sharma. Salman, following his father's footsteps
has written the plot for the movie himself. According to different gossips,
Salman is receiving an extremely large paycheck of 250 million of rupees for
the movie (just for the comparison means, Shakrukh Khan's paycheck is something
around 34 million rupees). And of course, just as usual, one will never know
whether the movie will be a massive success or a miserable failure.
Anna Stepanova
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