Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who recently faced a paparazzi boycott, says photographers can refuse to click his pictures but they cannot ‘ban’ him as there’s no such provision in the law. He has also questioned if it will even affect his stardom.
“You (photographers) can say ‘I don’t want to click Salman’s pictures‘, but can’t say ban me as there is no provision in the law to ban anyone,” the 47-year-old star said in a group interaction.
The matter snowballed into a controversy when at a recent promotional event for Salman Khan‘s forthcoming film ‘Kick’ in Mumbai, camerapersons present there were mishandled by the superstar’s bodyguards and security personnel.
Following this, Salman Khan told reporters that whoever wanted to stay could stay and others could leave. This comment left the photographers miffed.
Salman is nonchalant about the matter. “They have all the right to take a stand and to not take my pictures and I am so happy, but it is also a sad story as every coin has two sides. They had banned me long time ago. I was very happy. I was so peaceful. Every 10 years, there are 10 or 12 (such) people who come…it does not work like that,” he added.
Defending his bodyguards, the ‘Bodyguard’ star said: “The problem is not us (stars). We come and stand there, you (media) have got equipment. When you can shot from 50 ft, you have got long lenses, you don’t need to come close.
“They come between the bodyguards and us, so the bodyguard’s job is to stop these people coming to us…like they (photographers) are getting paid for the pictures, bodyguards get paid for this (protecting us).”
Now the actor is contemplating on having personal photographers who will click his pictures and release them for his fans.
“They (some photographers) used to tell me, ‘Please let us click a picture, we get Rs.150
