Salman unleashes his funny side – ‘I am giving Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise a chance’

SYED FAHAD AHMED

KARACHI: Voted the best looking man in India, and the seventh-best-looking man in the world by People magazine in 2004, Salman Khan has stayed away from Hollywood.

Giving his reason at an event organized by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) held recently, he said, “All my friends who have gone to America, they don’t even want to come back for a holiday, wonder why. I am an actor, those guys were the ‘sensible’ ones, educated – engineers, doctors, scientists.”

“These guys went there and made a lot of money, respect,” he further added.

“Me, I am giving Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, all these guys a chance. Otherwise…poor guys,” the 46-year-old said in a humorous way.

He chuckled about Hollywood films saying further, “Amazing movies, they make anything look good. Like for example the names I took, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise. We just go on emotions and heart. We overdo anything; I mean guys like us also look really bad.”

He wrapped up by unleashing his funny side and responding with his arch-rival, superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s famous dialogue from My Name Is Khan: “I mean my name is actually Khan and I actually am not a terrorist.”

Besides Salman, actress Nargis Fakhri was also present at the 8th Indo-American Corporate Excellence Awards, where Tata Consultancy Services was formally honored as the overall best Indian Company operating in the US.