Salman Khan, one of Bollywood’s biggest box office stars, completes his silver jubilee in filmdom this year. He is also a producer, television presenter and philanthropist, and has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.
His younger brother, actor-film-maker Arbaaz Khan talks about how Salman’s own decisions have helped his career throughout the years.” Salman has had a flourishing career by making his own desisions,” Arbaaz said in an interview.
“Normally, most decisions you take may be right, but sometimes, you take the decisions that fail, like in between you do the films that don’t work. But that doesn’t matter! The average matters. Like in cricket, you have the average [score].” Arbaaz said. “In the same way, if you have done 10 films, [it matters depending] how many of them have been liked by the audiences, and have been successful,” he added.
Talking about Salman’s career in specific, the 45-year-old said: “If you see Salman’s career graph, you will see that most of his films have worked, done well and that’s why he is at this position today.”
Salman made his debut in 1988 with the film Biwi Ho To Aisi, but as the main lead his first film was Maine Pyar Kiya in 1989. He gave commercial hits like Saajan, and recent five back-to-back hits including Dabangg further cemented his position.
But Salman never turns to his brother for advice. “Neither do I need to give advice to him nor does he wants it realistically. He has now developed a kind of sense and judgement about image, which films and which people he has to work with or for,” Arbaaz said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2013.
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