TOI: Drawing inspiration from Bollywood

Salman Khan's fascination for his on-screen name Prem is widely known. This name that Sallu bhai has been called in many of his blockbuster movies, has become synonymous with him. 

And that's one thing in common between Salman and the male lead Shoaib of Sasural Simar Ka on Colors. Well, it turns out that Shoaib is a huge Salman fan and he clearly wishes that some of his icon's luck rubs off on him too. And he has started off with Salman's most favoured on-screen name. The lad convinced the makers of the show to rename his character as Prem. 

This is a 25-year-old boy who is the apple of everyone's eyes. Prem hails from a well known and an affluent family. Now that his parents wish him to get married, hordes of people from rich households are lining up on his doorstep to ask his parents for his hand for their respective daughters. Although flattered by all this, Prem insists that his future wife has to come from a middle class background as he believes good values and sanskaar are taught only in middle class households these days. He's not narrow minded or chauvinistic, rather he prefers to look beyond the glamour of money and all the vices that come with it.