Uncle Salman Khan

‘’Main toh chachu ban gaya re…’’ thus spake Salman Khan when asked about Aishwairya Rai Bacchan’s pregnancy.

Coming from Salman this was both expected and unexpected. Sallu is well known for his unbridled, eccentric comments, but he has been quite tightlipped about his ex-girlfriend Aish. So his tongue-and-cheek remark has raised eyebrows.

Salman-Aish romance started during the making of HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM in 1999. It lasted for about four years and finally ended rather nastily with a breakup in 2002.

Both famously commented on their breakup.
AISHWAIRYA - “The Salman Khan chapter was a nightmare in my life and I am thankful to god that it is over.’’

SALMAN KHAN – ‘’ I love Aishwarya. I am not hounding her. It’s not a teenage obsession that I feel for her — it’s pure love. She’s such a traditional Hindustani girl at the bottom of her heart. The fact that she respects her parents so much makes me admire her more.” (Hindustan Times, 2002)’’

The affair was one of the most torrid and talked-about in Btown. It ruffled many feathers, touched the life of many and finally the Aish blitzkrieg ended with marriage to Abhishek in 2007.

Though both went their own ways Salman never really forgot Aish. Of all the women he loved and lost (Somy Ali, Sangeeta Bijlani, Katrina Kaif) Aish was the closest to his heart.
During courtship though Salman did many wrongs on Aish, but after the breakup he never really spoke against her. In fact it was Aish’s another ex-beau Vivek Oberoi who raked the issue years later in Farah Khan TV show and called her an ‘ artificial, plastic girl.’
Since 2002 both of them have maintained a stoic silence about the other and maintained a dignified aloofness. Whenever their path crossed inadvertedly (much to the glee of the media), both of them became embarrased.

The Bacchan parivar was quite professional in its relation with Salman. Big B did films with Salman. Attended shows were he performed. In fact, Salman even met Bacchan Junior after his marriage and had a talk with him for half an hour in the vanity van. The topic , purportedly was Aish. Since then Salman and Abhishek bonded fairly well.

Salman was never lucky in love. According to his father Salim Khan, Salman looks in his girlfriends the image of his mother. He is a momma’s boy at heart and looks for mothering from his hot ladies. And that makes them run away !!!

With Aish it was over-possessiveness which spoilt the love-story. He became violent and psychotic. Something which he never became in any of his other romances. After the breakup he probably realized this and has never again gone round the bend. Even when his last ladylove Katrina developed closeness with Ranbir , Salman kept in control. Even the breakup was a silent affair.

Right now the Maverick Khan remains that elusive bachelor who grasps unsuccessfully at love. The golden-hearted bad boy of Btown. Hero at the Box Office, Flop at Romance. His lost loves strongly etched in his heart, whom he forgets not.

And now by becoming a self-proclaimed Chachu of Aish’s kid has he not reaffirmed his forget-me-not kinship with Aishwairya Rai Bacchan.