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Salim Khan is a doting father, and like any other loving patriarch, he doesn’t have any favourites, “My sons live like friends,” he says matter-of-factly recounting how his sons straighten themselves whenever he enters the room.
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Salim recounts his childhood spent away from his parents, living in a huge house with a large courtyard. As his mother suffered from tuberculosis, she spent the last 4 years of her life in a separate cottage without seeing her son. Eventually, the writer was brought up with much love and care by the servants of his house.
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Initially Salim Khan, like the numerous others who enter Bollywood, wanted to become an actor. But things changed, “After working for a while I realized that I had the art of conception, better than an actor but I did not have the art of projection. For example: Amitabh Bachchan is not a very tough man physically, but the toughness that he projects on screen is phenomenal.”
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Watch what he has to say about his sons, childhood and career as a writer in an interview with Komal Nahta.
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