There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that the three Khans of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan dominate the Indian film industry like no other actor ever has. Be it numbers at the Box Office, stardom or fan following, there’s no matching the trio.
However, Salman Khan feels there is one actor who is even bigger a star than the three of them. Praising the ‘Khiladi’ of Bollywood, the ‘Tubelight’ star asserted, “Today, when they say (superstars) I think there is Aamir, Shah Rukh, me, and Akshay Kumar. We do fewer films — I do two films a year, Aamir does one film in three years, Akshay does four-five films a year. So you do the math. The man who works that hard and makes the maximum amount of money, and supports those many production companies, those many units, and those many directors every four months is a bigger star."
(Also read: Salman Khan: Akshay Kumar keeps on growing, we all have been stagnant) When asked if he thinks that he can't do as many films as Akshay, the actor revealed, "I used to do that. I think Akki is the only one who understood that back in the day, char-paanch lakh ke liye itni jyaada mehnat kar rahe the, ab crores ke liye utni mehnat nahi kar rahe hain... When we were paid so little per film, we did more films. Now we get paid so much more for a film, and we are doing fewer films."
That really is magnanimous of Salman, don’t you think so? We wonder what Akshay Kumar has to say about this one.
