Salman Khan protege Zarine Khan, who got her big break in Bollywood with Veer, opposite the superstar, in 2010, will be seen scorching the screen with her co-stars Karan Singh Grover and Sharman Joshi in the erotic thriller Hate Story 3.
However, the actress chose not to tell her mentor about doing the film, which, as the promo suggests, has a lot of kissing and bold scenes in it. Zarine confesses that she was too scared to tell Salman or discuss with him when she got the offer.
“No, no, I did not tell Salman about it. I am very intimidated by him. I know for the fact that he doesn’t belong to this school of thought, so I somehow felt that he will not like this idea of me doing the Hate Story franchise. I did not have the guts of going and telling him that I was doing Hate Story 3. But then, he got to know from outside, and recently, when we were on the Bigg Boss show to promote the film, he told me that the promo looks good. I felt happy about it.”
Zarine continues, “At the back of my head I was thinking, I don’t know if he will approve of this. I did not want to take panga with him, make him angry or upset him, hence I chose not to tell him.”
She further adds, "I am in touch with Salman, if it was not for him I would have never entered the industry and become an actress, which was never on the cards for me. But then, I have to take care of my own self. He is a big person, he is super busy and I don't want to bother him every now and then. But I know that if I get stuck somewhere, he is just a call away."