After Akshay Kumar's Singh Is Kinng, it is Salman Khan who will now be sporting a turban in Samir Karnik's Heroes. Salman is playing a Sikh in the film. A unit source revealed to us, "Salman refrained from smoking his cigarettes whenever he was in his Sikh character's get-up on the sets. When his co-stars and the director of the film, Samir Karnik, asked him for the reason, he is learnt to have told them that Sikhs generally do not smoke as they are prohibited by their religion and they consider smoking unsociable and dirty. Then they reasoned that he should not take it as seriously, as he was just an actor playing a role."
But Salman stuck to his religious sentiments and refrained from smoking. "He said that it was his token of respect for the turban. So one could see Salman puffing away his ciggies whenever he would arrive or leave the sets but once he had the turban tied around his head, it was no smoking for him," informs our source.
Salman's mother is a Maharashtrian Hindu and his father is a Muslim. His brothers Sohail and Arbaaz have married out of their religion too. Sohail is married to a Hindu, whereas Arbaaz is married to a Christian. The Khan household is known to celebrate every single festival with equal gusto. Salman's paintings have often revealed his spirit of religious tolerance. The majority of his works portray religious integration. For instance, there is a painting which has the image of Jesus Christ and that of a mosque together.
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