New Delhi: Salman Khan recently opened up about wanting to have children during his appearance on Two Much With Kajol & Twinkle, the new talk show now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The hosts confirmed that there will be a total of eight episodes, dropping every Thursday.
Salman and Aamir Khan were the first guests to feature in the show. The two Khans dropped their guards to talk candidly about divorces, health struggles, and their Andaz Apna Apna (1994) days.
But the real highlight was when Salman spoke of having kids.
“One day, I will have children,” he said, catching both Twinkle and Aamir Khan by surprise. Twinkle even teased him with, “Is there something we don’t know?”
However, Salman clarified that nothing is happening at the moment, but in the future, it’s something he definitely wants.
“There’s an entire family to take care of the kids. The women in my family, Alizeh and Ayan, have grown up, and now we have Ayat as well. So, I have never had any reservations when it comes to children,” the actor added. The actor was referring to his nieces and nephew, all children of his siblings.
Magnifying glass of marriage
The duo also spoke openly about how ‘love is easy, marriage is difficult.’ While Aamir Khan revealed that getting over two divorces was a daunting task for him, Salman blamed himself for his failed relationships.
Twinkle Khanna teased Aamir Khan for still having romance in his life at 60, to which he said that while love has been fulfilling, his breakups were “extremely traumatic.” He spoke warmly of his ex-wives, Reena and Kiran, calling them “wonderful” and adding, “the three of us will always be family.”
He also mentioned his current relationship with Gauri Spratt, saying, “We are both very committed to each other.”
Khanna wrapped the conversation with her trademark wit: “They say love is blind, but marriage is like a magnifying glass, you hold it up, you see all the flaws and even burn the other person with the sunlight.”
Salman Khan added another layer to the conversation, pointing out that success and personal growth often lead to cracks in relationships.
“When one partner grows more than the other, that is when insecurities creep in. Both need to grow together and stop being on each other’s backs,” he explained.
He also talked about his long-term relationships and why they didn’t work out in the end.
“If there is anyone to blame, I am to blame,” he added.
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Salman’s tardiness
Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have shared the screen only once, in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Andaz Apna Apna. Though the film turned out to be a flop, it eventually earned cult-classic status among movie lovers.
“It released on Friday, Saturday it was a disaster, and by Sunday it was out,” Salman recalled.
On the talk show, the two spoke of the old days and why they never collaborated again. Aamir shared that he wasn’t initially fond of Salman, largely because of his tardiness on set.
“Mr. Aamir Khan would show up at 7 am for a 9 am shift because he had one film. I had 15 films going at once, working multiple shifts round the clock,” Salman said, before teasing that Aamir rehearsed every scene endlessly.
When Khanna asked why they hadn’t worked together since, Salman quickly said, “Because his interviews started to come where he said, ‘I don’t want to work with Salman.’”
Suicidal disease
In the talk show, Salman also opened up about his battle with trigeminal neuralgia. This chronic pain condition causes sudden, severe, electric shock-like facial pain due to irritation of the trigeminal nerve.
The actor revealed that the disorder first surfaced in 2007, while filming his movie, Partner (2007).
He first assumed the pain was dental, but later learned that it was nerve-related. Calling the condition “the suicidal disease,” Khan described how it upended his everyday life.
“The highest number of suicides happens because of this condition,” he said. “You wouldn’t want your worst enemy to feel that pain.”
After years of suffering, he underwent an eight-hour gamma knife procedure.
“Now the aneurysm is there, and an arteriovenous malformation remains. But you have to live with it,” he said.
(Edited by Ratan Priya)