Salman Khan CRYING!’ - screamed the headline that accompanied videos and photographs of your 50-year-old in the middle of a rare meltdown in public. The photos showed the actor hugging director Sooraj Barjatya at a prayer meeting following the untimely death of his cousin and Rajshri Media’s CEO Rajjat Barjatya the previous week. Salman’s relationship with the bereaved family goes back to the late 80s when Sooraj directed him in Maine Pyaar Kiya.At the prayer meeting, Salman was accompanied by his sister Alvira. While he walked down the line talking to the family, it was clear that Salman was having an approximate time holding back cry. When he saw Sooraj, he couldn’t hold them back much more. It was this moment of grief that became headlines and sent the gossip mills into overdrive. There were Whatsapp jokes about Salman ‘being human’ in my inbox even before I got home from the prayer meeting. I was instantly reminded of the funeral scene from Madhur Bhandarkar’s National Award-winning Page as well as more. Anjali Thapar’s (played by Soni Razdan) death and the funeral that is filled with schmoozers and publicity hounds is a turning point for Konkona Sen Sharma’s character Madhavi. Like the rest of the film, that scene was over-the-top but at its core it reflected real life.
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