I am a simple man at heart: Salman Khan

You will never be able to find a family like ours anywhere else. The patriarch of the family is a Pathan. My father Salim Khan is married to a Maharashtrian Hindu who converted to Islam. My other mother Helenji is from Burma. My sister-in-law Malaika Arora is from Kerala and my other sister-in-law Seema is also a Hindu. We are such a close-knit family.
I really hope there are phenomena like rebirth, but I do not want to remember the previous births. I just want to be born again in my same family. God is very important for me. I did a film God Tussi Great Ho, recently, where I play a character that is totally unlike me. In real life I do thank God for the good things that he has given me.

My fans are my other great strength. So many come here to try and meet me. Scores of people wait outside my house. They want to kiss me and they want to touch me. Once when I removed my T-shirt and threw it to them there was a huge applause. People loved and even fought to get the T-shirt. My relationship with my fans is the best thing that I have outside my family. In fact, I can't thank them enough. When I was in jail, they stood outside temples and mosques and prayed for me. They have stood by me through thick and thin. I have gone through various phases in life and I don't entertain the media like other stars. But my fans don't have to read things about me to love me. They love me for what I am.

I am a simple person. I think that is the reason why people end up identifying with me. I am a guy who has risen in life, but at heart, I am a simple common man. I am not a star as I am being made out to be. I have had a different kind of relationship with the media. Nowadays, I give interviews only to senior journalists. I will not talk to unscrupulous journalists and television reporters who do not know what to ask. They just ask whatever they feel and do not respect the sentiments of the person they are interviewing.

It is strange to wake up in the morning and see a scowling face of yourself in the newspaper or read things that are not true. I have undergone this for a long time. It seems people are in too much of a hurry to get me married off. But life has just started for me now. Of course, I will get married someday. People ask me how it feels to work with Katrina. It makes me uncomfortable because you share a great bond personally and you have to replicate it on screen. Wouldn't it look a little weird if you are asked to enact a romantic scene with someone you are close to?

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