You will regret not giving acting a try: Salman told Arjun Kapoor

Arjun Kapoor

Arjun Kapoor, who gives credit to Salman Khan for his foray into acting, says his mother Mona credits the superstar with seeing his potential.

“When I was an assistant, I spent a lot of time with him…I think it came from an emotional connect. My mother always said he is godsend,” the 27-year-old told reporters here Thursday at the unveiling of Men’s Health magazine cover featuring him.

Initially Arjun, who worked as an assistant director on Salman starrer “Salaam-E-Ishq”, was only interested in direction.

“One night he (Salman) said you should become an actor and I looked at him and then I looked at myself. I said, ‘You want me to become an actor? I am very happy being a director and I will write, I have no interest in acting’,” he said.

Salman told him that being a producer’s son, Arjun can become a director anyday.

“He (Salman) said you will wake up 10 years from now regretting not giving acting a try. Give it your best shot. The worst that can happen is that you won’t make it as an actor, but at least you have to try.”

Arjun, who weighed 140 kg, lost extra pounds before making his debut in “Ishaqzaade”.

His next is Yash Raj Films’s “Aurangzeb”, coming out May 17. Directed by Atul Sabharwal, “Aurangzeb” also stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor.

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15 Comments

  • Great advise bhai and bhai jaan is always pushing newcomers into the industry and is not overly obsessed with self preservation like some other individuals. ;-)
    Bollywood should be thankful to the Bade Dilwale Bhai jaan to all comers and looking out for their best interests than other supposedly stars who only look out for their own investment angle.

  • @soroop bcoz Salman had a bad experience with an outsider(Srk) who acted like a friend before with him and then backstabbed him.

  • O hello mr sachin 11, when did salman give a break to srk? Do you think that deewana, dil aashna hai, rbgg etc were produced by salman? Get your facts right and don’t over bark always.

  • @indicine : I want you to either allow me post replies to morons like IMAM in the language he understand or ban him n dont allow his comments. This is not fair Indicine.

  • @IMAM : “Tere baap se pehle tameez se seekh aa, phir salman pe comment kar”.

    Haters r jealous coz their king think of himself n does not promote new comers like Salman.

    @soroop : Kat, Sana Khan, Himesh Reshamiya, Sajid – Wajid, tell me how they belonged to industry before Salman gave chance to them, now come up with ur cooked up stories.

  • @remotecontrol

    “You’ll regret not giving over the top acting a chance and remaking classic Amitabhs movies a go…!”

    Wise words spoken by Smeagol Rukh Khan to Farah Khan before ‘Shirin Farhad…’ was conceptualised…! ;-)

  • Salman has given many outsiders a chance….there are too many to mention. it did not matter to him whether the film with them wil be a hit or not…… . the most recent person he helped was Vikas Bhalla.

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