He has been linked with virtually every heroine in town and he has waged a cold war with one or two of the heroes. Described as the "most misunderstood good guy in town," he can be mercurial. Indeed, the 42-year-old Bandra boy-man has no compunctions about using four-letter words against the media... and he has no compunctions about admitting that he needs to do pre-movie-release interviews. Salman Khan does his Sallu number on Hiren Kotwani. 
 
A mucho-star hotel lobby, a mucho long wait for the five-star actor to show up. Fret, fret.. 90 minutes later he does.. with cohorts including a business manager, make-up guy, hair stylist, spotboy.. and the merry bunch trots straight into suite 1925.

Don't know whether that digit is lucky or what.. but no matter.. for a journo a delay is like the ones at Santacruz for airflights nowadays.

Our star of the day, Salman Khan, gets his TV bytes done. Then for more starters, he joins three of us journos, as if we were the proverbial musketeers.

The story is about Bollywood.. our cinema. (Director) Willard had watched about 400-500 films, he wanted to make something around it. This film is designed more for the international market.. but we're releasing an equal number of prints in English and Hinglish.. it will also be released simultaneously in Pakistan and maybe even in Bangladesh.

Any more Hollywood films in the offing?
If an actor even gets a brief role in an international film, he or she goes ballistic. (Laughs) My name is Salman Khan dude. Mashallah, I'm really happy in my country, in Bombay city, Bandra, Galaxy Apartments.

You finished shooting for Marigold a while ago. Why the delayed release?
This is the way they work. Not like us.. rushing promos at the last minute. Tell us about your newfound friendship with Govinda. It's not new, it's been there for 20 years.. way before Partner. When I was a model, I met him, tried to be so very cool and said, "You know dude, I really like your style." And he was like, "Oh thank you so much." My attitude backfired.

I learnt my first lesson before joining the indusry – to be humble – from Govinda. I haven't learnt it too well, but I'm still learning. We're not competing with each other.. he's done 17-18 films with David Dhawan. I've done about seven-eight.

It seems a sequel to Partner is already being planned.
Yeah, it will be called Tom and Jerry.

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