Salim Khan says falling in love with second wife Helen was an ’emotional accident’: ‘Mera koi aisa iraada nahi tha’

Arbaaz also asked Salim about his love story with Salma Khan and he fondly recalled that they would meet each other secretly and when he finally went to meet her father, the entire neighbourhood came to see him. “Chhup ke milte the idhar udhar kahin. Maine kaha ki nahi, I would like to meet your parents. Jab main gaya, sab mere ko dekhne ke liye aa gaye the jaise zoo mein koi janwar aaya hai naya ki dekhne chalte hain (We would meet secretly. I said I want to meet your parents. When I went there, everyone came to see me like I was an attraction at a zoo).”

Salim was also asked about his split with Javed Akhtar. As Salim-Javed, the writer duo wrote some of the most popular films of the 1970s including Deewar, Sholay, Yaadon Ki Baarat, Trishul, among many others. Salim said that he was “hurt” after they parted ways but acknowledged that they were not very close friends. In a recent chat with BBC Hindi, Javed had mentioned that they parted ways after 11 years and mentioned that their success was primarily the reason of their break-up.

He said, “Shuru mein jab hum nakaam log the, struggle kar rahe the, toh bilkul ek the. Koi humare aur dost nahi the, hum hi baith ke subah se shaam tak kaam karte the. Shaam ko bhi saath the, raat ko khana bhi saath hota tha. 24 mein se 15-16 hours toh saath hi hote the (In our earlier unsuccessful days, we were struggling, we were one. We did not have any other friends, we would work together from morning to evening. We would even have dinner together. Out of 24, we would spend 15-16 hours together).”