In Conversation with Salman Khan

In Conversation with Salman Khan

Bollywood Actor Salman Khan

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was in London for the shooting of his film Veer. The shooting took place at King Charles Street in Westminster. The street was set up to the theme of a typical English style market. Salman Khan dressed in brown trousers, light brown short kurta and a black leather jacket dropped in early at the sets to interact with his crew members. Newcomer Zarine Khan who is said to be a lookalike of Katarina Khan was also present at the sets for the shooting of that particular sequence.

After the shooting, I got a chance to speak to Salman about his latest movie and his future projects.

Why specifically London for your movie?

Salman Khan: It is based in London. This is during the British Raj and these boys have come here to study. Basically how they used to think. So he comes here and falls in love here.

Tell us a little more about the story?

SK: I can't tell you anything about the story. The film is going to release in Diwali, there is a long time for that. So when we promote the film that time, then we will talk about it. But I can tell you this that I have written the film. I wrote this film 22 years ago. At that time, the budgets were not that big, special effects were not that good, and the film was twenty years ahead of its time. So I think right now is the best time to do this film. I wanted to direct this film but it would have taken another ten years. So Anil Sharma is a very competent director, you have seen his films; he has made larger than life films. So I thought he was the right choice to do this film.

Do you see this relevant in today's time considering it was written almost twenty years back?

SK: Well most of the scenes are same but we changed a lot. It's a film on men and love and all that kind of stuff.

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So the Indian cinema is very much going global. Do you see that?

SK: Yes I very much see that. It's good; I mean we have been making films like slumdog millionaire from time and on. But it's actually a shame that a foreign director had to come and do this and it was acclaimed. I mean there are a lot of directors in our industry who have made films like these but have never got their critical acclaim.

And Finally Salman, what are some future projects for you?

SK: The next films that will be released is 'Wanted'. After that it is 'Main aur Mrs. Khanna' and then its London Dreams. So I have quite a few movies releasing this year and all of them are super films.

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