Stardust Spotlight: Is Salman Khan in love again?

Is Salman Khan in love again? A

There is this beautiful Hollywood female actor Samantha Lockwood who supposedly is creating quite a buzz in Salman Khan’s life. Sumita Chakraborty probes deeper to find out more.

The biggest and the most profound question in India besides when the dreaded pandemic will end, is and will always be when Salman Khan will get married? It’s like a national issue and just the way, there is no proper answer to the end of the pandemic, likewise uptil now, there has been no definite answer to when our Bollywood’s beloved Sultan will get married?

He’s had relationships with some of the most beautiful women in the country but let’s admit it, nothing has tempted the Tiger to settle down in holy matrimony. The closest to him getting married is supposedly according to Salman Khan himself, was to one of his earlier girlfriends Sangeeta Bijlani almost three decades ago and at that point, even the wedding cards were printed. But unfortunately, that didn’t see the light of day and Sangeeta went on to marry cricketer Azharuddin. Now of course, she’s separated from Azhar and lives in Mumbai and is often seen with Salman but so is rumoured girlfriend lulia Vantur, who is admittedly seen at times somewhere in the background, yet Bhaijaan to be honest, doesn’t seem to be a whit bit interested in these women.

Until somebody spotted a young Hollywood female actor Samantha Lockwood around Salman.

I had interviewed Salman Khan in the garden of his Galaxy apartment some time ago for the Stardust cover and Iulia Vantur arrived dressed nattily in athleisure. She gave her rumoured boyfriend Salman a peck on his cheek and went on to run around the garden and Salman in circles. Salman, honestly, didn’t bat an eyelid and went on fielding my questions like the professional he is. But I did notice Iulia continuously stealing glances at Salman. Salman was however too busy answering the Stardust questions. Of course even after we’ve spotted Iulia accompany Salman to his farm house but Salman has never acknowledged her as his girlfriend. But recently things changed. No, we aren’t talking about ex girlfriend Katrina Kaif getting married to Vicky Kaushal and not inviting Salman and his family to the wedding, that, he seemed to take in his stride. But the first whiff of something cooking was when Salman confessed to the housemates of Bigg Boss that “it’s difficult coping with a girlfriend’s tantrums and he said, he is “jhailofying (tolerating) it”.

But obviously, everybody’s ears perked up. Who was he talking about? It couldn’t be Iulia – in fact recently, Salman was even trolled rather brutally for walking rather arrogantly into the lift to Arpita and Ayush’s apartment not bothering to wait for Iulia – the lift doors actually closed on her face – and there she was left all alone to face the paps. So was it her or somebody else that was suddenly tugged at the cockles of Salman’s heart? Whispers rose to a vociferous crescendo. It didn’t seem like any of Salman’s “usual suspect” girlfriends, was it? …Until somebody spotted a young Hollywood female actor Samantha Lockwood around Salman. The 20 something Samantha has acted in Shoot The Hero and Hawaii Five-O in Hollywood but recently, she’s been seen rubbing shoulders with Bollywood sparklers in Tinsel Town. The reason for everybody talking about her and Salman was because she was first spotted at the 56th birthday celebration of the superstar. Salman too posed for photographs with her and he definitely looked as if he enjoyed the company.

The first whiff of something cooking was when Salman confessed to the housemates of Bigg Boss that “it’s difficult coping with a girlfriend’s tantrums and he said, he is “jhailofying (tolerating) it”.

Salman actually confessed to Dibang, ABP former news reader who had come to Bigg Boss to be a part of the media panel that he is thinking of “settling down”.

But the reason for the grapevine to take note of her presence in Salman’s life was because suddenly Salman was himself talking about his personal life that too on a national platform like Bigg Boss. First, he admitted he had to tackle his girlfriend’s tantrums and then he actually confessed to Dibang, ABP former news reader who had come to Bigg Boss to be a part of the media panel that he is thinking of “settling down” but when questioned again, he laughed it off by saying “bolna padta hain”. But something was definitely happening in Salman’s personal life. And since Salman was so cagey about his personal life, the media caught hold of Samantha and asked her about her link-up with the superstar, after all there was no smoke without a fire. Samantha in an interview with a website rather defensively said, “I think people talk a lot. I think people can say a lot about nothing.

Samantha insisted that Salman’s hit film Sultan is her ‘favourite movie from Bollywood at the moment.

I met Salman and he’s a very nice guy, that’s all there is to say about that. So I don’t know where people get that idea from. I mean I met him, I met Hrithik, nobody says anything about me and Hrithik. So I don’t know where this news comes from but obviously, it gets spun out of proportion.” Perhaps to push the attention away it all, Samantha posted a picture of her with Hrithik and captioned it: “Fun to meet this actor who also comes from a movie family, loves action and Hawaii … superstar @hrithikroshan.” Hmm… but on the other end, Samantha insisted that Salman’s hit film Sultan is her ‘favourite movie from Bollywood at the moment. So for the moment, we don’t really know what exactly is happening but something is definitely abuzz in our ‘till now Brahmachari’ Sultan’s personal life? Will Salman Khan reveal the details in full soon? Watch this space for more.