SALMAN KHAN SHUT HIS BAD  CRITICS AND ANTI MEDIA 

 

His critics and wrote him off and finished. The anti media banned him and the industry people termed him arrogant and rude behavior brat but Salman has silenced them with three hits in a row and his performances in all three films has been hugely applauded with laurels. Right now Salman is poised on the brink of a mega blockbuster called Karan Arjun. The film directed by Rakesh Roshan also feature Shah Rukh Khan, but its Salman who outshine everyone including Shah Rukh effortlessly in the film. His performance as an angry young man remind the persona of Amitabh Bachchan. Salman throughout the film looks like a superstar and Shah Rukh has become his shadow whenever they come together in scene. The film is marching towards to become second biggest grosser of all-time by overtaking Maine Pyar Kiya and becoming next only to Hum Aapke Hain Koun. And what's interesting!, all the three films featured Salman in main lead roles. Salman has finally re-arrived with Karan Arjun . Salman is here to stay .

The ban by the press and we-don't-want-any-Salman stand of exhibitors has dropped overnight. To sum up, Salman has 8 big hits in just  his 5 years old career. You can't discredit man like this

Salman started his career with  supporting role in a B grade flick called Biwi Ho Toh Aisi which had Rekha playing title role. In his juvenile role he was opposite a girl called Renu Arya who was forgotten after a brief appearance in Chandni. The film strangely enough became a hit, but Salman went unnoticed. Salman Khan was known more for his liaisons, first with a girl called Shaheen and later the then top model Sangeeta Bijlani. Nothing much would have happened to Salman as he was then assisting Shashilal Nair in Falak and he was just a nice, good looking guy. Even Salim himself did not have much faith in Salman. So he was much on his own as he pursued an acting career and about that time met Sooraj Barjatya, grandson of Tarachand Barjatya of Rajshri Productions. Things were not going too well for the Barjatyas then, even though they were forty films old and a major force in distribution and exhibition of films.

Sooraj, for his script, had envisioned his own Prem  and that happened to be Salman Khan a. And thus Salman found himself in Maine Pyar Kiya, winning over other contenders like Deepak Tijori. To be honest, the industry sniggered. Nobody believed Salman had an aptitude for acting, or the diligence that Aamir Khan and others had started showing, or the charisma of Jackie, Anil, Sanjay Dutt.

The Rajshri vehicle, a vegetarian film as it was called, was also not considered the right launch. But when MPK released, it was the biggest film of the year, winner of seven Filmfare awards and also the biggest grosser the film industry had ever seen by nett grossing over 20 crores. Sooraj's clarity of thought and simplistic script appealed to the whole country and they were caught in the beautiful music and talented performances. The film ran for 100 weeks in many stations and was dubbed not just into Tamil and Telugu but also Spanish and other languages.

History was made. And Salman Khan was definitely made. His next lot of movies, Sanam Bewafa, Baaghi become thundering blockbusters and Kurbaan, Patthar Ke Phool also turned into hit. All these films had newcomers opposite him. He was the only sole reason to make them super hits. Thus in 1990-1991   he become the mega star and the uncrowded numero uno.

The super success of Saajan, in which he starred for the first time with an established heroine, Madhuri Dixit was a bonus. The film was officially hailed as the biggest grosser of 1991 by pandits with an estimated earning of over 10.5 crores at box-office. Completely unpopular with the press, he was called the Super Brat. He was considered arrogant, rude and badly behaved by a large section of the press who had banned him, mega star status notwithstanding.

However this led to a bad phase  in which Salman was completely wiped out. Jagruti, Ek Ladka Ek Ladki, Dil Tera Aashiq, Chandramukhi, Chand Ka Tukda and a host of other badly made films completely destroyed the Salman Khan  ,the super star and '1993-1994'  were tedious years for Salman. Nobody was interested in touching the boy or his films. There are always people ready to tolerate arrogance from superstars but nobody wanted to tolerate an arrogant flash in the pan

In this entire imbroglio only one man had faith in Salman and that was Sooraj Barjatya. Sooraj had finished scripting for his second movie, Hum Aapke Hai Koun and cast the two original Rajshri discoveries Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit. Now the industry did not snigger, instead they speculated. The MPK feat was difficult to equal, however Sooraj overcame that and did better. Hum Aapke Hain Koun grossed MPK ten times over . The film is running is still going strength-to-strengh and is expected to do business over 100 crores. Pile on it the overseas business and the film became a six hundred print wonder and the trade and the press had to sit up and take a good second look at Salman Khan's acting potentials. Hence we have this Khan back at the top where he was five years ago, this time much more secure and sure of his position.