{"id":29242,"date":"2025-08-28T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29242\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:07:12","slug":"sooraj-barjatya-on-working-with-salman-khan-again-challenging-to-make-something-relevant-and-fresh-for-his-age-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29242\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooraj Barjatya on working with Salman Khan again: \u2018Challenging to make something relevant and fresh for his age\u2019 | Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Director Sooraj Barjatya<\/a> says it\u2019s always a challenge to create work that feels \u201crelevant\u201d and fresh for superstar and his long-time collaborator Salman Khan. Sooraj was set to make an action film with the 59-year-old star but that idea was dropped as the filmmaker was unable to crack the right character for Salman. The duo have collaborated on hits such as Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994), Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999), and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015).<\/p>\n

\"Sooraj Sooraj Barjatya highlights the difficulty of crafting relevant roles for Salman Khan, revealing a dropped action film idea. Sooraj talks about collaboration with Salman<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some subjects that you are not able to take it forward, you are unable to crack the climax or get the character, so till all of this does not come together, it doesn\u2019t make sense to make a film.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve barely made seven films, but this is what I\u2019ve decided to do, and till the time I don\u2019t feel convinced I won’t make it. So, I\u2019m so happy that Salman Bhai is with me, and today to make something relevant and fresh for him at his age is a bigger challenge,\u201d the filmmaker told PTI.<\/p>\n

With a career spanning more than 30 years, Salman has built a reputation for blockbuster successes but his recent outings like Sikandar, Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, Radhe, Dabangg 3, and Race 3 have not lived up to the expectations of his loyal fan base.<\/p>\n

Sooraj confident of Salman making comeback<\/p>\n

Sooraj, however, is optimistic about Salman\u2019s career and making a huge comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it happens in everyone’s life… it is just that he is a celebrity, that\u2019s why he gets so much attention. But everyone should be allowed to make a mistake, to learn because that is what his life is.<\/p>\n

“We have to allow each other to (grow), we should not be so harsh. He is such a good person, he is so strong that he is going to come back in a very big way,\u201d the director said.<\/p>\n

Both Sooraj and Salman are busy working on their respective new films.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker is looking forward to beginning work on a new family drama set to feature Ayushmann Khurrana and Sharvari, while Salman has begun work on a much-anticipated war drama titled Battle of Galwan. Based on the 2020 Galwan Valley conflict, this film, helmed by Apoorva Lakhia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Sooraj Barjatya says it\u2019s always a challenge to create work that feels \u201crelevant\u201d and fresh for superstar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[23315,23316,434,18,117,11317,19,17,3325,23314],"class_list":{"0":"post-29242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-action-film","9":"tag-blockbuster-successes","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-family-drama","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-salman-khan","17":"tag-sooraj-barjatya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}