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Here are some excerpts from a recent interview given by the Ultimate Bad Boy in Bollywood , Salman Khan to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express on NDTV’s Walk The Talk programme.

I remember last time I was pulling your leg about setting a bad example for young people with some of your activities. You said, look it is because you hit the gym and built this body that a lot of youngsters are doing it.
Well, that’s true and I have started hitting it again. I have not been training for quite some time. I saw everyone else may be a lot younger or a lot older, but a lot fitter. So I am out to give them a run for their money.

You look younger, but you are in the first year of your forties and I am in the last and that’s a sobering thought.
No, I am going to be just the way I am for another forty years. I want to come out of college at the age of eighty and say “Maa, maa... Main pass ho gaya, first class...”

Insha Allah, on a bike, I presume, because that’s your new love.
Yeah, I like riding. I don’t drive anymore, Sir.

Last time we talked, you were close to the release of Tere Naam. Now, there’s another one, Jaan-E-Mann. But last time it was your big comeback, you had been in the doldrums. What has changed since then? Have you mellowed down or have you hardened up?
There is no reason to mellow down or to harden up. People have a perception about me that the poor guy has suffered so much... I can understand that Sanju has gone through a lot with his cases that, Insha Allah, will be settled very soon. I will have to pay the price for whatever the government or the judge decides. But I have not gone through anything, basically. My parents, friends and career, everything is fine.

Do you reflect sometimes that you could have done some things more carefully or that you had not done something?
No, not really. All that stuff that happened in my life six, seven or eight years ago, now that the truth has started coming out, people have started realising that they did wrong to me. My press image was bad because I did not speak to them.

And you never wooed the media?
No, why should I? The media does not have the power to make or break anybody. The media tried its best to break me. I didn’t break, my family didn’t crack, my fans didn’t go away.

Do you feel the media has been harsh on you?
In the black buck case, people know now that they cannot do it any longer. Today, wildlife has increased because people are scared. In the car accident case, everybody including my driver said that I wasn’t driving but it was on to me because it makes news. But then, 70 to 75 percent cases of drinking and driving have stopped.

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