The film Sarabjit has sparked conversations on various topics, including lead actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s ex-boyfriend Salman Khan’s role in it. Salman Khan ran a Twitter campaign to free Sarabjit Singh but was never a part of the script of Sarabjit, says the film’s director Omung Kumar.
In 2012, Salman had campaigned on Twitter to free the real-life Sarabjit Singh from jail in Pakistan, where he was confined for over 20 years for alleged spying. The film is about Sarabjit’s sister’s struggle to get him freed.
This is just not true. We don’t know who started it, or why. Salman’s campaign to free Sarabjit was never part of our script. Ever! So where is the question of deleting an episode that was never in our film? We don’t know who started this nonsense.Omung Kumar, Director of Sarabjit
Sarabjit Singh’s character is being played by Randeep Hooda in the film. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who was once in a relationship with Salman Khan, is playing Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur.
This gives Khan enough reasons to not want any association with the film. A mutual friend of the two stars said:
Neither Salman nor Aishwarya wish to have anything to do with one another. The last thing Salman would want is to have his name popping up in an Aishwarya-starrer. He doesn’t take kindly to his name being used without his consent.
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