Kabir Khan says Salman Khan encouraged Katrina Kaif to sign New York, recalls telling her to stop calling him ‘sir’: ‘Your boyfriend is 4 years older…’

Kabir shared, “Those days, she was seeing Salman. Salman asked her ‘how was the meeting?’ She said ‘there is a new filmmaker who has made one film and he offered me a film. It’s interesting but I don’t know’. Salman asked ‘who is the filmmaker?’ so she said ‘there’s this guy called Kabir Khan’. So apparently, Salman said ‘aankh band karke picture sign kar lo, I have met the boy’ (sign the film with your eyes closed, I have met the boy).” Kabir said that Katrina shared this incident many years later and added, “It’s so sweet that he remembered that one meeting.”

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Kabir also recalled the making of New York, which also starred Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham. He said that they shot the film for 100 days in New York and the whole set-up of the film was quite new for Katrina. “For a long time, when she came on the set, she kept calling me sir. I finally had to say ‘yaar, your boyfriend is four years older than me, please don’t call me sir’,” he recalled.

Kabir also admitted that for the first 20 days in New York, he would accidentally address Katrina as Kareena. “For the first 20 days, I would call her Kareena and then slowly when we became friends, I became used to Katrina. Then during Bajrangi Bhaijaan, for a long time, I called Kareena, Katrina,” he said.

Kabir and Katrina are still friends. He attended her wedding with actor Vicky Kaushal in 2021.

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