Salman Khan’s home food is the best in Bollywood, says Mahesh Manjrekar: ‘He loves his spices, doesn’t worry about diets’

Mahesh Manjrekar, who has a long friendship with both Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt, spoke about their food preferences.

New Delhi | July 8, 2023 07:40 PM IST

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Mahesh Manjrekar directed Salman Khan in Antim: The Final Truth.

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Filmmaker-actor Mahesh Manjrekar has been a part of the film industry for several years, and has developed friendships with many major stars. In a recent interview, he spoke about whose home food he loves the most in the industry, and said that contrary to popular belief, Salman Khan loves flavourful, spicy food.

In an interaction on Kunal Vijaykar’s Khane Mein Kya Hai YouTube channel, Mahesh Manjrekar was asked whose cooking he likes the most in the film industry. He said, “I like the food at Salman’s house. He’s also very fond of his spicy food. He wants taste. The thing about Salman is that he doesn’t worry about diets, he likes his spices. I love his home food. With Sanjay Dutt, it’s less spicy. But at Salman’s house, it’s proper…”

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Mahesh said that when they shoot in Mumbai, he makes sure to have his personal chef prepare home-style meals for him, and usually, the entire unit shows up at his van to taste some of it. He said that his crew looks forward to eating his home food, and checks with him if he’s going to be serving some on set. He said that his chef was trained by his wife, who in turn learned the ins and outs of traditional Maharashtrian cuisine from his mother.

Mahesh has directed Sanjay Dutt in films such as Vaastav: The Reality, Kurukshetra, Pitaah, Hathyar, Rakht, and more. He directed Salman in the film Antim: The Final Truth, which also starred Salman’s brother-in-law Aayush Sharma. In an interview with Siddharth Kannan during the promotions of that film, he said that Salman, who lives in a ‘one-bedroom flat’, is a middle-class guy at heart. “Sometimes I really feel that behind this man, itna success hai huge success, uske peeche jo aadmi hai na wo typical middle-class aadmi hai (The man behind the successful facade is a middle-class person). Sometimes I feel he needs someone to come back to because everyone who is with him, his friends, they are all very very good friends. They really love Salman Khan,” he said.

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