Originally posted by: jjairam
I think that Salman has both political and underworld connections.During the ugly break up phase with Aishwarya, he wanted to finish her off from the industry and went aggressively after her by keeping her from getting films and planting negative stories about her in the media. His physical harassment stopped when her father filed a police complaint and then had and audience with Bal Thackerey who then threatened Salman's family and told them to back off.
When the tapes were released, the government labs said that they were doctored and the whole thing sort of died down. Recently, when J. Dey, the highly respected crime reporter for Mid-Day was shot dead, there were a lot of articles published by other media people who had worked with him.
One of those was an editor for Hindustan Times, the paper that had broken the news of the tapes. The editor, in his article, wrote that he and Dey had sat and heard hour after hour of those tapes and had painfully transcripted them and they were absolutely authentic. He wrote about how there had been pressure on the labs to declare the tapes as doctored.
With the kind of money that is playing around in the movie business, there is a strong nexus between low level politicians, goondas and the movie world. Salman has his own coterie and power circle. To me, it is an absolute miracle that Aishwarya survived that whole episode.
This whole Being Human Foundation etc. is a careful public relations ploy to paint the image of a good hearted -rough-around-the-edges-human being. Every act of charity is scripted and publicized.
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