

Salmaan said he grew out of that pressure "organically" and credited the films that came his way for making him an assured artiste. So I used to put a lot of pressure on myself over these things, I spent a lot of years like that, taking every step carefully," the actor said. Not that I had to be as good as him, but I didn't want to embarrass him in any way or spoil that legacy. "I used to feel quite under pressure because of that. Forget me, I don't think anyone can challenge or replace him.


When you are in your 20s, you have all these fears and insecurities. I had a lot of apprehensions when I was coming to the industry. "I didn't know if I would make it, I didn't know if I would survive, if people would accept me. In an interview, Salmaan said in his decade-old journey in the industry he had initially put a lot of pressure on himself to live up to his father's name. He also gained widespread acclaim with Mani Ratnam's Tamil romantic-comedy 'O Kadhal Kanmani' and eventually made his Hindi debut with 2018's 'Karwaan', which starred Irrfan Khan.
