Mumbai: Salman Khan, one of Bollywood’s highest-paid superstars, revealed in a recent interview that the first expensive thing that he bought with his salary was a Rolex watch for his father.
The actor further shared that he had to take a loan as he was not financially stable then.
“The first expensive thing I bought was a Rolex watch for my father, which, when I started wearing watches again, he gave me to wear. When I got the watch, I didn’t have the money for it, but I liked it for my father. At that point in time, it cost something like nine lakh rupees. I had four, rest I got as a loan. When I gave it to my dad, he said, ‘You haven’t even started working properly, and you st
arted doing all these things. Do you think of yourself as some king?’ While he wasn’t in favor of me getting that watch, he later called it a piece of jewelry. When I started wearing watches, he gave me this one,” Salman said during a conversation with Variety India.
Salman is often spotted wearing different luxury watches, but the one featuring a murti of Lord Ram grabbed the attention of netizens.
Talking about his collection of watches, the actor said: “I had stopped wearing watches for the last 26-28 years of my life. Now, if you see me wearing a watch, those aren’t always mine. They belong to friends; I take them to try on, wear, and then they go back to them. So this whole thing that he’s got a collection of so many watches and so much… I just have that one Rolex. The rest all belong to my friends.”
On the work front, Salman will next be seen in Apoorva Lakhia’s ‘Maatrubhumi’, produced by Salman Khan under the banner of Salman Khan Films.
The actor will also be seen in Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK’s next project, in which he is reportedly playing a superhero.