'Dabangg' director Abhinav Kashyap calls Salman Khan a 'goon', says 'My brother Anurag Kashyap quit Tere Naam because...'

In an interview with SCREEN recently, Abhinav Kashyap, director of Dabangg and Besharam, spoke about his experience of working with Salman Khan and revealed a lot of detials.

The filmmaker was quoted saying, “ Salman is never involved. He is not even interested in acting, and he hasn’t been since the last 25 years. He does a favour by turning up to work. He is more into the power of being a celebrity, but he is not interested in acting. He is a gunda (goon).”

Kashyap added, “He ( Salman Khan ) is the father of the star system in Bollywood. He is from a film family which has been in the industry since 50 years. He continues the process. They are vindictive people. They control the whole process. If you don’t agree with them, they come after you.”

On his brother Anurag Kashyap

Abhinav Kashyap explained why his brother took the step of moving away from the film that was eventually directed by late actor and filmmaker Satish Kaushik.

“The same happened with him (Anurag Kashyap) in Tere Naam. How would he guide or advise me? He told me before Dabangg that you won’t be able to make a film with Salman,” said the filmmaker.

Kashyap added, “He just didn’t tell me in great detail why. He just thought I’ll get easily bullied, he knows these vultures.”

Salman Khan has been working in Hindi cinema for the last 37 years continuously. He is one of the biggest superstars the country has ever seen. Between 2010 and 2017 the kind of success he saw at the Box Office will always remain unprecedented. In those eight years, he had eight blockbusters and one all-time blockbuster. The actor was last seen in Sikandar that’s directed by AR Murugadoss.

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