Salman launches many faces in bollywood

Salman Khan has launched more than a few faces in Bollywood and most have gone on to become big stars. His latest find is ‘Kick’ co-star and Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez.

Interestingly, the actor has also gone on to date some of his heroines and Salman’s way with the girls is the stuff of cocktail circuit gossip in Bollywood. ‘Bhai’ may be a bachelor at 48, but he’s never been short of girlfriends. Here are the ones he’s made news with…

There is a huge reason why we kept her at the top. After having an utterly disgusting debut with a film that Boom-ed with doom at the box office, Katrina Kaif had to walk up to a certain Salman Khan to make her re-entry into Hindi films, this time as an actress and not a mere piece of meat and sexual innuendos. Signing Katrina up for his brother’s production gave in more fuel to rumours of them being in a relationship and henceforth, Katrina started getting numerous offers and the rest was history. After an alleged affair with the star which ended years back and films that escalated her as the topmost heroine in the league, Katrina had established herself big time in B-town. But would anything have happened without Salman? We wonder.

Sonakshi Sinha, or famously as we call her Shotgun Junior, would not have needed Salman to launch her in films, because she did have her own godfather sitting at home. But Salman, who noticed the spark in her eyes and the talent in her body language, asked her to lose weight as he decided to launch Sonakshi inDabangg. And boy, what a magical debut that was. With just one power packed dialogue in the entire film, Sonakshi became the new ‘it’ girl, as her dreams of being a reputed fashion designer gave way to becoming one of the brightest commercial heroines that Bollywood had till date. With raining crores earned with each film and sharing screen with the heavyweight superstars, Sonakshi has arrived and how.

When the Aishwarya-Salman fairy tale romance hit rock bottom, giving rise to speculations and triggering off the so called Bad Side of Salman Khan in total public view, the actor somehow decided to launch a new face; a face that resembled his ex-love Aishwarya Rai. Salman who at that point, was obsessed with Ash, made desperate attempts to get back to her and this was just about it. He noticed this girl, his sister’s friend at college who totally resembled Aishwarya. And that’s how a certain Sneha Ullal made her screen debut opposite our Bhaijaan in a totally forgettable flick, Lucky: No Time for Love!

While Sneha Ullal went down the roads of history in Bollywood, vanishing without a trace, Salman decided to launch Zarine Khan, one who resembled his then ex-girlfriend Katrina Kaif. Labelled as Fat-Kat majorly for huge weight issues, Zarine was criticized and heavily shunned because of the flak in her acting skills and her immense similarity with Katrina, who had by then become the top most actress in the industry. Although she was given a big, fat Bollywood film for a much awaited debut, the results of it were anything but Big! But then she did make it up with her second film Housefull 2, crossing the 100 crore mark.

When she made her entry in the Bigg Boss 7 house, little did we know who this firang babe was. Although she had her debut film, Mickey Virus up for release, people would not even have recognized this B-town diva had Salman not been so lenient to her on the show. More famous for her closeness and affinity towards Salman Khan, the Elli-Salman rumour grabbed headlines and prospects of a future film with Salman cropped up across the media. With Salman’s support, Elli kind of had an angelic stint at the big Boss house where her cute innocence won hearts nationwide. And it would not be a surprise if the two finally gear up for a film together anytime soon.