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Superstar Salman Khan Celebrates His 60th Birthday. Filmmakers Reflect On His Biggest Hits.

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Superstar Salman Khan Celebrates His 60th Birthday. Filmmakers Reflect On His Biggest Hits.

As the superstar turns 60 today, four of his filmmakers with whom he has delivered the biggest hits explore his emotional side and him on on-screen . A star who has a large persona by being himself where his entire potential is not being utilized.

One of his films that has explored his emotional sides as well is his film Sultan where he’s macho but also vulnerable. The kind of emotional depth shown in the film is phenomenal.

Tiger Zinda Hai was a hostage drama which had explored the charisma .The character Tiger held also showed the character in a humane way. The range is vast where his potential can be explored say the filmmakers.

Every character that he plays is the kind of effort he puts in without letting you release he is preparing for it. Off Screen Salman Khan has taught people around him not to take life too seriously !


Kabir Khan – says international level action was a new territory for Salman Khan.


Ek Tha Tiger was just the third film with Kabir Khan wherein he directed the mega star Salman Khan. As International level action was a new territory for him, he was ensuring he didn’t go overboard. He pulled it up with more action instead. Ultimately energy between the two helped to be a blockbuster.

Bajrangi Bhaijaan was next film delivered after the action film which was successful and had a narrative with a political angle. His love for children was evident in the film with the little girl about whom the film revolved around.


Anees Bazmee said he had to make the audience laugh not hate him.


For the film No Entry , the narration was only for ten minute and he got the complete idea of the character that became an inspiration for his friends. The idea was to portray him a funny badmash character that the audience laugh though the film had his deeds were villainous. He caught the right perceptive to the lovable self on screen through his actions in the film.

In the film Ready he had to bring a certain innocence to the role and get the comic timing right which he did it fabulously. He pulled off the character that bhai had pulled off very well.