Kabir
Bedi
at
a
recent
event
opened
up
on
how
Salman
Khan's
newfound
success
had
pushed
him
and
late
actor
Sunil
Dutt
into
background
music
in
a
film.
The
actor
was
speaking
at
Times
LitFest
while
promoting
his
recently
released
autobiography
'Stories
I
Must
Tell.'
It
so
happened
that
an
audience
member
drew
comparison
between
his
life
and
Sunil
Dutt's,
considering
the
way
their
sons
had
went
through
troubled
times.
That's
when
the
Khoon
Bhari
Maang
actor
walked
down
the
memory
lane
and
shared
a
trivia.
Kabir
revealed
that
he
and
Sunil
Dutt
were
asked
to
do
a
film
titled
Kurbaan
in
which
they
were
supposed
to
play
two
leads
in
a
village,
who
clash
with
each
other
over
their
ideologies.
At
the
same
time,
the
producers
also
wanted
a
young
actor
in
a
smaller
role
and
an
actress
so
that
they
can
add
some
songs
in
the
film.
That's
when
Kabir
Bedi
suggested
Salim
Khan's
son
Salman's
name.
He
was
brought
on
board
but
his
newfound
stardom
flipped
things
entirely
for
Kabir
Bedi
and
Sunil
Dutt.
Bedi
recalled,
"Bollywood
films
in
those
days
particularly
were
shot
in
a
sort
of
instalment
plan.
You
know,
they'd
shoot
a
few
days
every
month
and
it
would
keep
going
on.
It
used
to
take
about
two
years
to
make
a
film
and
while
the
shooting
for
Kurbaan
was
going
on,
four
of
Salman's
films
released
and
became
superhits.
Immediately,
the
scenes
in
our
film
were
converted
into
a
love
story,
and
Duttsaab
and
I
became
the
background
music."
However
there's
no
bad
blood
between
Salman
and
Kabir
with
regards
to
this.
In
fact,
the
superstar
had
even
helped
launch
Bedi's
book
in
July
this
year.