Filmfare – July 15, 2019

film to get married...

it’s amazing.

YOU REPORTEDLY

SAID KATRINA WOULD

GET THE NATIONAL

AWARD FOR HER

PERFORMANCE IN

BHARAT.

She told me, ‘The

way you’re going

about saying that

I’ll get a National

Award for Bharat,

everyone thinks it’s

a joke’. I said, ‘Baba

I’m serious about it’.

She truly deserves a

National Award for

this film. It’ll be a

unanimous choice.

THE FILM HAS KATRINA

PROPOSING MARRIAGE

TO YOU. HAS ANY GIRL

PROPOSED TO YOU IN

REAL LIFE?

No, so far it’s never

happened. (Smiles)

Because I don’t do

candlelight dinners.

I can’t see what I’m

eating in candlelight.

But I do feel sad

do that. I did it a

couple of times later

too. The look was

accepted.

YOUR MOTHER (SALMA

KHAN) REMARKED THAT

YOU’LL LOOK YOUR

HANDSOMEST WHEN

YOU TURN 70, JUST LIKE

YOU DO IN THE FILM.

Really? She said

that? Look at her

husband. How good

he’s still looking

at 84.

YOUR ENTRY ON

SCREEN IS GREETED

WITH WHISTLES,

CLAPS... IN THE

THEATRES. WHAT

ACCOUNTS FOR THIS

POPULARITY?

God has been kind.

I don’t know what

fans see in me that

brings out this side

in them. Also, the

kind of films I’ve

been doing, remind

me of the films

I watched as a child.

I reacted in a similar

way. I always pay

attention to what, as

KATRINA TOLD ME, ‘THE WAY YOU’RE GOING ABOUT SAYING

THAT I’LL GET A NATIONAL AWARD FOR BHARAT, EVERYONE THINKS

IT’S A JOKE’. I SAID, ‘BABA I’M SERIOUS ABOUT IT’. SHE TRULY DESERVES

A NATIONAL AWARD FOR THIS FILM. IT’LL BE A UNANIMOUS CHOICE

that I haven’t been

approached yet.

WERE YOU NERVOUS

ABOUT FANS ACCEPTING

YOUR EXPERIMENT

WITH YOUR LOOKS IN

THE FILM?

I was told that if a

hero sports a bald

look, he no longer

remains a hero. In

Tere Naam, I shaved

off my head. I was

the first person to

themselves. And

those who have,

well, unki film itni

buri tarike se piti hai.

Critics can

write what they

want. But don’t

be irresponsible.

Don’t make fun of

someone’s work. Let

the audience decide.

Let the fans go to

the theatres at least.

Even if 15 per cent of

the audience relies

on their reviews, the

business gets affected

by that much

percentage. Maine

Pyaar Kiya was made

in one crore and

eleven lakhs. It was

a big budget film at

that point. Today the

smallest film is made

in a budget of at least

25 to 30 crores. You

need to recover that

DOES THE FEAR OF

FADING STARDOM

BOTHER YOU?

Stardom will fade

eventually. It’s a

huge task to keep

it going for such a

an audience, I’d want

to see my hero do.

DESPITE HUGE-BOX

office RETURNS, YOUR

FILMS ARE PANNED

CRITICALLY.

It doesn’t matter

what’s being said

about my films.

Some will accord it

5 stars. Some will

give it minus ratings.

These people have

never made a film

long time. I guess

Shah Rukh (Khan),

Aamir (Khan), Akki

(AkshayKumar),

Ajay (Devgn)...

we’re the only ones

who’ve been able to

pull it off for such

a long time. We’ll

try our best to keep

it going for another

few years. Then like

in the case of all

superstars, the box-

office collection will

Salman Khan in Bharat

With Katrina Kaif