Bollywood actor Salman Khan, about to show 60 this 12 months, met the Mumbai press forward of the discharge of his newest motion potboiler, Sikandar. During the interplay, Salman dropped a number of updates about his upcoming tasks, together with an enormous motion film with Tamil director Atlee. It was speculated that Tamil megastar Kamal Haasan will star within the film alongside Salman.
Asked about his film with Atlee, Salman stated: “That’s delayed. The budget is an issue for that film. He (Atlee) has written a very big, large-budgeted film.”
“I don’t know if Rajinikanth or Kamal Haasan will be in the film,” Salman added. The 59-year-old actor had carried out a cameo in Baby John (2024), produced by Atlee’s banner.
On Bollywood and Southern superstars collaborating extra typically, Salman stated that the budget of such movies change into unfeasible. “The thing is, money becomes a factor. They also charge and we also charge. It is a very big responsibility to make such a film and you need to have a script that suits it. For example, now there are doing ‘Ramayana. In a film like that, they can cast everyone from across the board.”
Salman condeded that, in comparison with regional stars, his motion pictures don’t do as effectively within the South, evident in decrease footfalls in theatres.
“I’ve worked with South technicians, directors, actors and actresses many times,” Salman stated. “But when my film is released there, it will not get the numbers because their fan following is very strong. I’ll walk on the street, and they will shout, ‘Bhai, Bhai, Bhai’, but they will not go to the theatres. How We’ve accepted them here, and their films, that’s not happened there. We go and see films of Rajinikanth garu or Chiranjeevi garu or Suriya or Ram Charan. But their fans do not go and see our films,” Salman expressed.
He reasoned that the budget of pan-Indian movies go “very high”, making restoration tough given the variety of theatres in India. “If we had 20,000 to 30,000 theatres, we would have killed Hollywood,” Salman stated.
Salman additionally revealed he’s doing an enormous motion film with Sanjay Dutt, describing it as a ‘rustic’, next-level film. The actors had famously collaborated on movies like Saajan and Chal Mere Bhai.
Published – March 27, 2025 01:19 pm IST
