
Some might say that you are taking the warrior role too seriously what with the recent news that you allegedly slapped Katrina Kaif.
I did not slap anybody. Those Barista (the place where the alleged slap was supposed to have taken place) people couldn’t have said that because it didn’t happen. But they (the media) still wrote the story. I want to know on what basis are they so sure that something like that happened. What I really want to know is that if I’m such a terror who keeps slapping people, why aren’t people scared of me? Why do they still keep on writing all this stuff about me? They should check with me.
Maybe because you have a history of being inaccessible to the media?
I don’t react to rumours and unfounded stories. If you ask me about a stupid thing that hasn’t happened, then either I’ll joke about it or laugh it off. What can I say to something as preposterous as this? I don’t have the time to get into all this. My name is Salman Khan and I need to work for a living. I don’t have the time and energy to call up every newspaper and television channel and deny or confirm every little thing that gets written or said about me. But now I’m thinking I need to do something. I’m planning something.
What are you planning?
I’m going to ask all editors to designate one person from their organisation who will come and talk to me. There should be one point person that I deal with. Like, from The Indian Express, it could be you. That way, I won’t have to deal with little kids who don’t know what they are talking about and have just been given a camera and pen to write whatever they want to. From now on, I’m going to insist that everyone who interviews me must have done a journalism course. By the way have you done a course?
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