‘Salman Khan would have told me to act less’: Iulia Vantur makes acting debut, shares Salman’s philosophy of ‘less is better’

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Deepak added and said, “Yes, that is something Bhatt sahab (Mahesh Bhatt) also teaches you. I think Salman also comes from the school of acting. Not acting is the most difficult part of acting. Knowing when you are going overboard is the best part of the skill.” Deepak also talked about how certain roles hurt him in his career, and while he was trying to be a good friend to people in the industry, many of those films proved to be a “trap”. He said, “This is what our industry does; it typecasts you, and I fell in that trap. Bhatt Sahab tried to break that trap for me, but his brother Mukesh told him that ‘you cannot make a film with Deepak as the lead.’ It was a commercial decision, so I don’t think I hold anything against him.”

Deepak has previously shared that he was in the running for the role of Prem in Maine Pyar Kiya, and that he and Salman were the two finalists zeroed down by Sooraj Barjatya. However, Sooraj chose Salman because the people in his family beleived that his image would work for the generational love story they were trying to make. “He told me that I had performed very well, but since it was a love story, they went ahead with Salman. And I agreed with him. When he told me that women will immediately fall in love with Salman given his looks, I also accepted. I told him, ‘Sir, I am hurt, but at the same time, you are right.’ I was mature enough and never felt that he wronged me, I felt it was justified, so I said okay and walked back,” he shared with Bollywood Bubble.