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Salman Khan poses with children at a remand home for the launch of his forthcoming film Wanted in Mumbai.
After two years lying low following a string of box office flops, Bollywood's enigmatic bad boy Salman Khan is set for a comeback, in three new films about to hit the big screen.
His first film Wanted, is out on September 18, then a romantic comedy Main Aur Mrs Khanna and London Dreams, about two friends who try to become rock stars in London, are set for release in the next two months.
Salman, 43, says he is confident Wanted would succeed. The movie sees him play a gangster on the run from police -- including a top cop played by veteran actor Om Puri -- and from fellow gang members who want him dead.
After the runaway success of 2003's Tere Naam, the last five years have seen more misses than hits for Salman, yet he has kept his high profile and fans through regular appearances on television game shows. Khan, with his trademark slicked-back hair, two gold earrings and t-shirts designed to show off his bulging biceps, puts down his appeal to a lack of pretence.
On being asked what went wrong with his career in the last two years, he says: ''I feel it was the length of the films that went against me. Today, Indian audiences don't have the patience for long films and therefore the films flopped because they were lengthy films.'' Khan's three new films have been accompanied by a blizzard of pre-publicity.
Salman Khan poses with children at a remand home for the launch of his forthcoming film Wanted in Mumbai.
After two years lying low following a string of box office flops, Bollywood's enigmatic bad boy Salman Khan is set for a comeback, in three new films about to hit the big screen.
His first film Wanted, is out on September 18, then a romantic comedy Main Aur Mrs Khanna and London Dreams, about two friends who try to become rock stars in London, are set for release in the next two months.
Salman, 43, says he is confident Wanted would succeed. The movie sees him play a gangster on the run from police -- including a top cop played by veteran actor Om Puri -- and from fellow gang members who want him dead.
After the runaway success of 2003's Tere Naam, the last five years have seen more misses than hits for Salman, yet he has kept his high profile and fans through regular appearances on television game shows. Khan, with his trademark slicked-back hair, two gold earrings and t-shirts designed to show off his bulging biceps, puts down his appeal to a lack of pretence.
On being asked what went wrong with his career in the last two years, he says: ''I feel it was the length of the films that went against me. Today, Indian audiences don't have the patience for long films and therefore the films flopped because they were lengthy films.'' Khan's three new films have been accompanied by a blizzard of pre-publicity.
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