
I miss those times - he was a brat with a heart. In this short phase that I knew Salman well (after MPK he fell out with me because of a story that displeased him), he was warm, friendly and funny.
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Movie magazine hit the stands around the first week of MPK and sold like hot cakes. I decided to gamble and put Salman, and not Amitabh, on the cover.

That month, all the rival magazines had Amitabh gracing their covers. Maine Pyar Kiya Latest Breaking News, Pictures, Videos, and Special Reports from The Economic Times. The Rajshris had even graciously put up a board that read, "A warm welcome for Dinesh Raheja and his family." After the screening, I called Salman and told him he had a blockbuster on hand.Ĭoincidentally, during this phase, Amitabh Bachchan had begun talking to the Press after years of silence. So, next day, which happened to be a Sunday morning, he blocked the entire theatre for my extended family and me.

I reached late and they were unable to accommodate me. Salman had invited me to a special screening of MPK at the Rajshri preview theatre. After an interview, Katrina once casually mentioned that she shared Salman's passion for painting). In his quieter moments, he loved to doodle (an early indication that he would paint eventually. Find Maine Pyar Kiya Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Maine Pyar Kiya and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV.COM. He would drop in around noon and jabber non-stop with my female staffers, who were slowly consolidating into a legion of fans. I would order mutton biryani from Noorani for lunch for us and he would volunteer to type articles for me. Salman would regularly hang out at my Movie magazine office (near Mahalaxmi temple) in the pre-release days of Maine Pyar Kiya. I would say that multilingual is my forte. I went to Spain a few years ago and people recognised me from the film. It was the biggest hit, be it in Tamil, Telugu or Spanish. It is one of my favourite close-ups of the incredible hulk and this picture enjoys a place of pride in my collection. Speaking with Hindustan Times, Bhagyashree said, Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) was dubbed in about a dozen languages.

Salman was shooting for Maine Pyar Kiya with Bhagyashree and Alok Nath and took me out of the set to shoot the picture near a studio wall. I shot this picture of Salman Khan in the late 1980s at Natraj Studios. I have dug out a few pictures shot by me I hope you like them. For five years between 19, I was a click-happy photo journalist before the exacting demands of a newly landed editorship drew me away.
