Why is Salman real King Khan of Bollywood

Salman Khan is the man Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan need to beat if ever they want to lay claim to the top spot in Bollywood.

Salman had already set a record of sorts with ‘Wanted’.

Even though a couple of films flopped after that, the Pocket Hercules roared back into the reckoning with ‘Dabangg’.

Normally Salman’s hits are followed by a few flops, but then ‘Dabangg’ broke all of ‘Wanted’s’ records and then ‘Ready’ did exceedingly well after that.

Now, ‘Bodyguard’ has gone ahead and not just broken ‘Dabangg’s’ record, it has also become the fastest Hindi film to collect Rs100 crore (Dh75.2m) at the box office which is what SRK will be trying to emulate when his film ‘Ra.One’ releases with 4,000 plus prints at the box office.

The only record Salman hasn’t broken is that of ‘3 Idiots’, which is certainly not a solo hero film.

Even if SRK manages to break the records, he still has Rajnikanth, Amitabh Bachchan apart from Kareena Kapoor and villain Arjun Rampal in the movie when he attempts to overhaul Salman.

For the moment, the King of the box office is still Salman Khan.