Celebrity Duo: Film script writer Salim Khan (right), and his super star son Salman Khan.
MUMBAI,(Daily News & Analysis), October 28, 2007:
Salman Khan once remarked that his father, Salim Khan had a good taste in women. Remind Salim about this and he bursts out laughing. But he cannot help but admit that his son’s view is actually an universal truth for all men. “Anybody who says that he is not interested in good looking women is either lying or there’s something that is grossly wrong with him. In my opinion, women are the most beautiful and interesting creations in this world. They must be adored and respected at the same time,” says Salim.
We then go on to prod Salim to open up about his two beautiful wives, Salma and Helen. “I’m lucky that I have two wives and that they live in harmony. Never mind if that happened a after a few years later (there were some initial bad vibes between Salma and Helen). My wives are good-looking and now they are ageing gracefully,” Salim says.
Surprisingly, Salim still regards falling in love twice, as one beautiful accident that is too good to be true. "Falling in love twice was a beautiful accident that happened to me. I have survived that accident! Though I wouldn’t recommend it as an ideal way of living. Normally it doesn’t work."
Salim continues on a humourous note:
“One speaks a lie under two circumstances. When you earn and lie about it to the Income Tax department. And when you have an affair and lie to your wife. I have lied in both cases. Not otherwise. I am attached to both of them. I love and respect both of them. They also have the same feelings towards me.”
But living in harmony with two wives is something that Salim Khan would not recommend for anybody else. “There is nothing like an ideal situation. There is no ideal job and no ideal wife. We have to look at a situation objectively and adjust ourselves accordingly.” Rare shot: Seen with his two loves Helen and Salma, is Salim Khan.
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Salim Khan was born in November 24, 1935, in Indore, India. His father was a police officer; his mother died when he was still young.
In 1964, Salim Khan married a non-Muslim woman, a Hindu from Maharashtra. She changed her name from Sushila to Salma when she married. Salma's Hindu family was unhappy that she had married a Muslim. Her father refused to speak to Salim or Salma for seven years after the wedding.
Salim and Salma have had four children: Salman (b. 1965), Arbaaz (b. 1967), Sohail (b. 1970), Alvira. They also adopted a daughter named Arpita.
In the late 1970s, Salim took a second wife, the dancer/actress Helen, who lives in a separate household. Relations between his two families were rumoured to have been tense at first, but Salim's children by his first wife are now said to be fond of his second wife as well.
