SALMAN FAN FROM REFUSED TO LEAVE THE SETS TILL THE STAR HUGGED HER

One of Salman Khan's female fans landed at the shooting of UTV's Main Aurr Mrs Khanna in Melbourne and refused to leave till he hugged her.

Director Prem Soni recalls the event, "We were shooting the song Rabba on Flinders Street with Salman and Kareena. It was 2 am and freezing cold. An Indian lady driving past, saw Salman. That was it! She insisted on meeting and hugging him and refused to leave the sets till he did that."

The fan parked herself at the location and said, "If Salman doesn't hug me, I won't go home." The director adds, "Finally, when we packed up around 5.30 am, Salman went up to her and said 'Aapko kya chahiye?'. She said 'hug chahiye'. Salman said 'Lijiye' and hugged her warmly."

Prem adds that the thrilled lady kept on screaming with excitement, "It was sweet of Salman to do that but he has always been warm with all his fans. The woman finally had to be bundled into the car by the unit and sent home. She kept on telling Salman 'God bless you, you're the real superstar and a people's person.' "

Prem says that although they shot in Melbourne in Australia for 90 days, not once did they face any kind of racial discrimination from the locals, "In fact, the people were cordial and warm. One night, a bunch of Australians girls and guys stopped their cars on seeing Salman and Kareena."

He adds, "Apparently, they had seen Salman at Madame Tussauds and found him hot. The girls, who appeared to be drunk, started dancing and thumping on the car bonnets and screaming 'we love you Salman, we love you Kareena,' and continued till both Salman and Bebo waved to them. It was very distracting for the shoot but finally they left after blowing flying kisses at the actors!"

The director hopes that his film does well, as it is about the institution of marriage.

DON’T CALL ME BHAI: SALMAN KHAN

Salman Khan shows annoyance during radio interview.

Salman Khan was annoyed with RJ Siddharth Kannan after he called the actor Salman Bhai during a radio interview.

During the interview, when Siddharth addressed him as Salman Bhai, the actor instantly showed his anger and told him not to call him Bhai.

Though, after Siddharth told Salman that he looked up to him as an elder brother, Salman softened his stand and allowed the RJ to call him Salman Bhai for the rest of the interview.

Siddharth established the news saying Salman does not like anyone who is not close to him addressing him as Salman Bhai. This term is only for his family and close friends. For everyone else he is just Salman Khan.

I DON'T LIKE JOHN TOO MUCH: SALMAN KHAN

Salman Khan tells Abhijit Majumder he will bid for one of the two new teams and speaks about the whole thing from SRK to Islam.

YOU are there, imperceptibly pinned to the wall by fear as the huge, bear-like Saint Bernard casually amble up to you.

"Don't panic, take your fears head on, run into them," advises a grinning Salman Khan, wearing just his blue gym shorts. "Come, let me bring in you to Saint. He's a safe baby."

For the next hour or so, you have him talking about new films, SRK, Katrina, Islam, close to everything.

He confirmed in this interview at his Bandra Bandstand house on Friday afternoon that he certainly wants to buy an IPL team.

So this is Salman unplugged (just kidding... anybody who has spent some time with him knows an entirely unplugged Salman is too candid, raw and politically shocking even for our pages).

SALMAN TO BUY AN IPL TEAM

Bollywood action hero Salman Khan is the latest cine star to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) gravy train and has spoken interest in buying a team.

Salman met IPL chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi here Tuesday and was briefed about the nitty-grittes of buying an IPL franchise.

The fourth season of the IPL in 2011 will see two new teams and they would be up for grabs through a bidding process later this year.

Modi said Salman is attracted in buying an IPL team.

"He has been interested to buy a team for quite some time," Modi added.

"Today we had a brief meeting and I explained him how to go about with the task. I can assure you that Salman is not the only star who is thinking to buy a team. I have had around 28 queries and the list will surely go up," he said.

IPL vice-president Niranjan Shah told IANS that Salman is a staid buyer and will bid for one of the two new teams.

"Salman is a serious buyer and is considering buying an IPL team. He came along with couple of his friends and was briefed by Lalit on the procedure to buy IPL franchise," said Shah.

Shah went on to add that cities like Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Vishakhaptanam are in battle to be the hometown for new teams.

"It will be an open tender process and the city that gets the highest bidder will be the new IPL team," he said.

Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla are the co-owners of Kolkata Knight Riders while Preity Zinta is also a joint owner of Kings XI Punjab. Shilpa Shetty and her boyfriend Raj Kundra also bought some stakes in Rajasthan Royals.