‘Salman Khan would leave the set in two hours if he felt his face didn’t look good’: Anand Balraj recalls Bhai, Govinda’s habitual tardiness

Recently Raveena Tandon also revealed similar things about Govinda and said that he would regularly arrive five hours late to the sets. In an interview with Etimes, Raveena said, “I would reach the set at 9, knowing that he (Govinda) would come at 2.30-3. I would get ready, do my make up, get into my costume, and used to go to sleep.”

Talking about working with Salman, he said, “When Salman Khan was shooting for Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, I was on the sets, and they used to put up the sets at night. The scenes which were supposed to be shot in the morning were also shot at night, indoors. And he loved working at night. After the shoot, at around 1:30 or 2 a.m. when we asked ‘can we go,’ he used to say, ‘get a drink.’ He used to chill with the cameramen and other crew members till 3:30 a.m.”

He added, “With Salman, it’s like the day begins when he wakes up. If he comes to the sets and feels he isn’t looking good, he leaves in two hours and comes back the next day. But he never leaves work unfinished. Yousee, a lot of the times, his body doubles help him a lot. But Salman is a hugely professional.”