How Many Actors Can Boast Of Being A Cult Of Their Own? Just One, Salman Khan Can… Writes Shubarna Mukerji Shu, And His Fanatic Fans Agree!
He might have started as the lesser of the three Khans but we all know that the scales have totally tipped with age, Salman turning out to be the true Capricorn that ages in reverse. However, something that hasn’t reversed is his inimitable sense of surety. Early in his career he didn’t think twice about signing up films wherein he played second fiddle, and worse films where he walked away without the girl.
Today of course he is too big to be playing me-too roles but what he does in his films is still secondary to his stardom. He has a way with his people, his audience – no one cares what he is doing as long as he is onscreen. It is the most unadulterated truth in the market. Salman Khan is the Midas who turned plot-less blunders into BO gold
mines. That quality is God-given – no one can take that away from him, not even his insouciance towards the media. The figures he generates are mathematics beyond the realm of the trade pundits. Like Aamir Khan pointed out on national TV…
Salman Khan is the Lord of the movies, while everyone else is a mere minion.
Salman Khan has proved ‘You don’t have to change your undies to change the world’. Well, not literally of course. It is no mean feat, even for an industry insider to make people accept them for what they are, flaws included. While ‘Bhai’ might come with his temper and a few tantrums, he has become a power which is not feared but revered. The harder the critics pull him down, the tighter his fanatics gather him up. He is loved and how!
Very few have managed that and for that alone, he could be called the kick-ass Khan
Perhaps it’s his philanthropic side that he wears on his sleeve, almost literally with his ‘Being Human’ franchise. His fanatics wear it as religiously as he does it. But then, whatever Salman sports, becomes a fashion must-have for the people who love him. Think of a man wearing netted singlet with a pair of orange jeans, accessorised with a turquoise-studded silver bracelet causing mass hysteria? And I am not even going towards the ‘Tere Naam’ hair style or the days before his hair transplant when everyone around him had shaved their heads to show support.
Salman Khan is The Superstar because his fans are a religion of their own!
Which other actor can boast of a cult of his own? How has he managed to make so many people fall in love with him? The answer, my friend, is the unfettered love that he showers. Even today, being the reigning superstar, he doesn’t think twice about heading across to celebrate someone else’s success, someone unrelated and perhaps much smaller. He doesn’t think twice about speaking his mind and maintaining his distance with those he doesn’t wish to suffer, and yet, he admits to be praying for their well-being or even their success. There has to be a reason why all his ex-girlfriends wouldn’t mind being Salman’s girl even today!
Salman’s Salman ’cause the man surely knows his right from his wrong
How he stands by his family, sets them up to be individual successes is one thing, but the fact that he doesn’t stop at that is what makes him Salman Khan. He recently took to Twitter trying to eradicate unemployment amongst Indian youth. Obviously his offer for jobs caused applicants to go dizzy with joy, some even fainted at the prospect before he specified that it is not he who has the jobs. While that did break hearts, it managed to win him more love than ever.
Salman’s cool because
he might say things with loads of typos and grammatical blasphemy but he says things from his heart
Salman Khan admits he is not the most graceful of dancers, and yet that doesn’t stop him from being the most loved dancer of the industry. It might not be completely wrong in saying he is probably every choreographer’s nightmare, but he might also be their greatest success story because his moves makes for signature styles every year.
Salman Khan might be the only actor who could get his moves patented!
