Throwback video shows rivalry between John Abraham and Salman Khan. Here’s the whole story!

The conflict between Salman Khan and John Abraham may not be one of the more popular subjects in the film industry, but netizens occasionally bring it up. A Reddit user found an old video of Salman Khan recounting the time when Katrina Kaif claimed that John Abraham had her replaced from a movie they were both working on and that she was only involved with that project because Salman Khan had recommended her to pursue it. Salman Khan also disclosed that John Abraham got a great break as a result of him and Katrina Kaif.

In a video shared on a popular Bollywood reddit sub, Salman Khan who appeared in Aap Ki Adalat shared, “I remember the visual of Katrina that she was doing the film for which she was replaced by Tara Sharma later and Katrina was crying ‘My whole career is destroyed’. Teen din tak woh jhelna pada (I had to bear it for three days). Later, I assured her that she will be one of the biggest stars in India. I said, ‘You’ll be laughing at this a few years down’.”

For those who are unfamiliar, the movie was Anurag Basu's 2003 supernatural fantasy love drama Saaya, that was rife with rumours of John Abraham having Tara Sharma replace Katrina Kaif. After that episode, Katrina Kaif had the opportunity to have John Abraham removed from the film when she got the chance to work with him in New York, but Salman Khan advised her against doing so.

In the widely shared video, he is heard saying, “Then this movie came, she said ‘John is in the film’. I said, ‘So? It could be anybody in the film. You are doing a film for the script and director, whoever be the co-star. She said, ‘No but he’d taken me out of that film’. I said, ‘C’mon yaar be magnanimous. Today you’re in a position ki aap kar sakti ho yeh (that you can do it)… He can be replaced anytime but it’s not the rightest thing to do. She understood that (and) worked with John. The film became a big hit. Mere aur Katrina dono k badappan k wajahse John Abraham ko badi hit mili hai (Because of the nobility of both of us John Abraham got a big hit)."

John Abraham's response to this when he appeared on the Rajat Sharma show was also included in the video. The actor had remarked that, he was a newbie at the time and had no authority to suggest to the producers or directors that someone be dropped from a production. When Rajat Sharma said that it was due of the two actors that John Abraham was a part of a great hit movie, John Abraham even went on to congratulate Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.