{"id":49993,"date":"2025-09-08T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49993\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:43:10","slug":"dabangg-director-abhinav-kashyap-says-salman-khan-is-a-gunda-calls-khan-family-vindictive-they-control-the-whole-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49993\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabangg director Abhinav Kashyap says Salman Khan is a ‘gunda’, calls Khan family vindictive: ‘They control the whole process’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DabanggAbhinav Kashyap, director of Dabangg, criticizes Salman Khan’s behavior on set. He calls Salman a ‘gunda’ and questions his acting commitment. Abhinav claims the Khan family wields significant industry power. He alleges they make life difficult for those who disagree with them. Anurag Kashyap, Abhinav’s brother, faced similar issues during Tere Naam. Anurag eventually left the project due to mistreatment. Abhinav Kashyap<\/a>, the director of Salman Khan<\/a>\u2019s 2010 blockbuster Dabangg, has had a rocky history with the superstar and his family. After the film\u2019s release, things soured when Abhinav refused to direct Dabangg 2, later accusing the Khans of derailing his career. Now, as Dabangg turns 15, the filmmaker has spoken up about Salman\u2019s behaviour on set. <\/p>\n

Salman Khan called a \u2018gunda\u2019<\/p>\n

In an interview with SCREEN, Abhinav didn\u2019t hold back, calling Salman a ‘gunda’. He claimed the superstar isn\u2019t really interested in acting and hasn\u2019t been for the past 25 years, showing up more for the power of celebrity than the craft itself. Abhinav added that he didn\u2019t know this side of Salman before Dabangg, describing him as ill-mannered and difficult to work with.<\/p>\n

Salman Khan dances to dhol at Ganpati Visarjan with family & Sonakshi\u2013Zaheer<\/p>\n

The Khan family and industry power<\/p>\n

The director also claimed that the entire Khan family is all about industry power and can be vindictive. He said Salman is \u201cthe father of the star system\u201d in Bollywood, coming from a family that\u2019s been in films for over 50 years. According to him, if you don\u2019t go along with them, they make life difficult.<\/p>\n

Anurag Kashyap faced similar struggles<\/p>\n

He also revealed that his brother Anurag faced a similar struggle while working on Tere Naam. Before Dabangg, Anurag had warned him that making a film with Salman wouldn\u2019t be easy. He didn\u2019t go into all the details, but he knew Abhinav would face pressure from what he called ‘these vultures’ in the industry.Abhinav went on to say that Anurag eventually quit Tere Naam, even though he had written the script. He recalled how producer Boney Kapoor<\/a> mistreated his brother and failed to give him proper credit. Abhinav added that he faced a very similar situation himself, stressing that a good film always starts with a strong script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abhinav Kashyap, director of Dabangg, criticizes Salman Khan’s behavior on set. He calls Salman a ‘gunda’ and questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[36929,15821,36935,8430,36934,36930,18,117,19,17,36931,327,36933,3325,36932],"class_list":{"0":"post-49993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-abhinav-kashyap","9":"tag-anurag-kashyap","10":"tag-arbaaz-khan","11":"tag-boney-kapoor","12":"tag-dabangg-director","13":"tag-dabangg-movie","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-khan-family","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-salman-abhinav-feud","21":"tag-salman-khan","22":"tag-tere-naam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49993","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=49993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}