EXCLUSIVE: Salman Khan on Tubelight debacle

Salman Khan is all set to enthral us with his action hero avatar in Tiger Zinda Hai which will also see him reuniting with Katrina Kaif. The movie has been helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar and is slated to release on December 22, 2017.

Salman's previous release Tubelight, helmed by Kabir Khan, proved to be a debacle at the box office to everyone's surprise. The movie which was high on emotion perhaps did no resonate well with the audience.

During an EXCLUSIVE interaction, we told Salman that now that now that he has established himself as the action hero so much so that people hate seeing you cry onscreen, he cut in between saying, "I have some other connect with my audience. It is not the action connect, it is something different."

He then elaborated taking Tubelight as an example, "I did Tere Naam. It was a big hit. However, it was a big hit for its first half, not for the second half. People didn't want to see me like that in the second half. For example, people are watching Tubelight on television, but they didn't watch it on screen especially at the time like Eid, Diwali or Christmas when you want to go out and enjoy yourselves and you go to the theatres all dressed up, to enjoy, to whistle, to throw chillar (change) and then in the first five minutes you start crying. They don't want to see me crying onscreen. You are just thrown off because that is not what you expect from the movie. Throughout the promotions, I kept on saying that if you are expecting some maar daadh (action), then DO NOT go and watch the movie. I am the only one who says DON'T go if you are expecting this. Even in Tere Naam, throughout I said that it is a loser character, go see the film it is superb but the hero's character doesn't follow at all."

Later, when asked if there is any role he would like to play, the superstar ended it with a smile.