BOLLYWOOD STARS VS INDIAN CRICKET TEAM : July 11, 1999
A cricket match between Bollywood stars and the Indian Cricket team was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt and many other stars participated in this match which was held to raise funds for the welfare of Kargil martyrs and refugees.

BOLLYWOOD STARS VISIT KARGIL HEROES - All India News : July 09, 1999
Several bollywood stars today visited Kargil to express their solidarity with the Indian soldiers fighting to evict pakistan-backed intruders from Indian territory.
Rajya Sabha MP and actress Shabana Azmi, her husband and lyricist Javed Akhtar, Vinod Khanna, Salman Khan, Sunil Shetty, Pooja Batra, Raveena Tandon, Javed Jaffery and Amir Hussain visited the army hospital at Kargil and enquired about the well-being of the wounded soldiers.
During their brief interaction with media persons in Srinagar before their departure to Delhi, the stars said they had gone to Kargil to salute the army personnel for their valour and high morale.
They announced they would arrange various programmes to raise funds for the welfare of Kargil martyrs and refugees.

SALMAN SINGS - Filmstrip : June 26,1999
Salman Khan just recorded a song for his home-production Hello Brother. He follows other actors like Aamir Khan and Govinda who have recorded their own songs. Salman has hummed the easy lyrics set to a lilting tune. Salman's younger brother Sohail directs Hello Brother. Salman is supposed to appear as a ghost during most of the film. He also plays the role of a petty thief and Arbaaz Khan plays the cop on his trail. Rani Mukerji, plays the ghosts lady love. Sajid-Wajid and Himesh Reshmaiya set the scores of the songs.

SALMAN : IN STEP WITH SUCCESS - Times of India : June 16, 1999
The man is back after a long spell abroad. Yes, Salman Khan may have missed the release of his Biwi No 1 while he was away shooting in Switzerland, but the actor is back in town for the release of his latest film, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam which opens this Friday. Meanwhile, Salman also makes a teeny-weeny appearance in Boney Kapoor's Sirf Tum which releases today(June 11, 1999). Even as his films continue to hit the marquee in quick succession, the macho hero was busy completing some patchwork shooting for Sooraj Barjatya's Hum Saath Saath Hain at Famous Studios on Monday. On Tuesday, he stayed home to watch India and Pakistan wrestle it out on the cricket field, and soon after he was back to the studios. ``I want to enjoy my success,'' he complained as he headed into the distant suburbs for yet another gruelling shoot. ``I haven't had a day's rest in a long time,'' he grumbled. He's enjoying the fact that his films are doing well, however, and Jaanam Samjha Karo is a distant memory.

SALMAN'S AID - Indian Express : June 15, 1999
Salman Khan is one personality who is just unable to keep his name out of the papers. The big question at the moment is: Does he love Ash or Somy? But Salman is not letting all this press get in the way of his day-to-day life. In fact,next Monday, he will be making a special appearance at Three Flights Up, from 6.30 to 9.30 pm to meet children who suffer from cancer. The event is being organised by Sanjeev Chowdhury who has been working closely with the Cancer Patients' Aid Association for some time now. The CPAA will also receive a cheque of Rs two lakh collected from various well-known industrialists including Harsh Goenka, Mukesh Ambani and Gulu Mirchandani. So perhaps this actor who is better known as an arrogant brat on his sets, does have a heart after all.

SALMAN - THE MIDNIGHT IDOL- Mid-day : June 15, 1999
Of late, the Bollywood industry has been minus its quota of starry parties thanks to the World Cup cricket-mania. So the launch of the latest hotspot pub-discotheque at Juhu called ‘Cocktails & Dreams’ owned by Ashwin Kumar and Sandeep Arora witnessed a galaxy of stars and top models freaking out on the inaugural night. The star turn-out included Jeetendra, Mahesh Thakur, Ritu Shivpuri, Dino Morea, Mamta and Aseem Merchant, Madhur Purushay, Sheeba Bhakri, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Neelam Sagar, Preeti Jhangiani, a host of veejays and, of course, Salman Khan (minus any female escort!).
In fact, Salman who strutted in after midnight, was accompanied by director David Dhawan and both were in a jubilant mood what with their Biwi No 1 turning out to be a mega-hit, despite the World Cup matches.
There was a merry muqaabla between the stud model Dino ‘Siddhant’ Morea (hero of Pyar Mein Kabhi Kabhi) and the Khan when it came to being mobbed by female fans. With his naughty look and strip-tease T-shirt, Salman had the babes swooning for him, while Dino (whose girlfriend Bipashu Basu is shooting abroad) had girls distracting him. As he swung and boogied on the dance floor, Salman predicted to me that his next romantic starrer Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam will be a big hit!
Surely ‘good friend’ Aishwarya Rai (who badly needs a hit) will be thrilled to hear this advance forecast! Particluarly since ‘rival’ Sushmita Sen notched up her first success with Salman in Biwi No 1.

SALMAN GETS A BOY FRIDAY- Digital Bollywood : May 25, 1999
Salman's happening status has resulted in him being flooded with dates for shoots, stageshows and photocalls. In fact so busy has Khan been of late that keeping track of his engagements has become a pain and he has also missed quite a few. This has prompted Salman to recruit a personal secretary. The boy's duty is to remind Salman of his daily itinerary and see to it that he attends them. Salman's friends are finding this move of his very amusing, and the joke doing the rounds is that given Salman's penchant for dropping his pants, the boy's most important duty would be to remind Sallu to put on his undies every morning. That's inside information for you!

ASH ASH BABY - India Bollywood : May, 1999
Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray presided over and Chief Minister Narayan Rane also attended the recently held Musical Dhamaka organised by the Lions Club along with SOL Welfare Association at Andheri Sports Complex. The proceeds of this star-studded gala are being used for the beautification of Mumbai.The occasion also marked the 5th Lions Gold Award ceremony which was a major no-show as the majority of prize winners failed to turn up to collect their trophies. Proceedings did perk up however, when Salman Khan jigged his way mid-stage, took over the mike and started singing Bhangra pa le number from Karan Arjun. Mercifully Kumar Sanu came to the timely rescue of the audience and sang the rest of the number while Salman dazzled the on-lookers in his shimmering white get-up. Surprisingly Khan didn’t trip-off his shirt this time. He remained fully clothed all along.
Just as he was making an exit with the refrain of Aaja aaja…, hostess Ruby Bhatia quipped naughtily," Aa gayi aa gayi" and then she grimaced and added, "Hope Ash won’t mind". Obviously she was referring to the alleged romance between the former Ms World and the sensational Khan that the scandal sheets are publicising with great relish. But the truth of the matter only the concerned parties know. Last we asked Ash about it, she had brushed the whole "affair" off as, "We do get along well. Like I do with everybody else, I am a friendly soul," she had reasoned amicably.

NOT SUCH A BRAT - India Bollywood : February 1, 1999
Salman, celebrated for his brawls wasn’t at his brattish best at our awards ceremony. The poster boy pranced about in childish gaiety before going up the stage for his short-n-sweet comic skit with brother Arbaaz. But the enfant terrible was surprisingly adapted an easy-going attitude for the evening. He even lent a helping hand to the TV camera trolley bearers raising it to the requisite vantage point. Needles to say that the starstruck workers were all praise for the lover boy. Seems like Salman is finally coming of age in real life as well.

MIFF TIFF - Filmfare : February, 1999
At the well-attended Arbaaz Khan-Malaika Arora wedding, only Somy Ali was conspicuous by her absence. Where was she? Was she miffed with the fresh lot of rumours about Salman Khan?
Can't conjecture what happened but another batch of rumours have it that Salman once again missed Somy and was feeling so low without her that he air-dashed with bhai Sohail to the US to assert that his heart beats for her... and for no one else.
Incidentally, Salman's birthday on December 27 was celebrated with a surprise party at the Shatranj on Pali Hill. Among the select invitees, there were Neelam, Sonali Bendre, Aishwarya Rai, Jackie Shroff, David Dhawan, Shakti Kapoor (gasp), singer Kamal Khan and his steady date Amrita Arora, and newcomer Divya Palat. Surprisingly, the party wound up pretty quickly, indicating that perhaps Salman is mellowing.

SALLU'S BIRTHDAY - Digital Bollywood : January 27, 1999
It was Salman Khan's birthday and Sallu miyan promptly dialled his chums (guys and gals) to party. But all his requests were turned down. Reason: Director David Dhavan had planned a surprise party for him in the upmarket Italian restaurant, Shatranj. The big question was how to get Salman to show up without revealing the surprise. So the director asked him to drop in and give his opinion on whether a part of the restaurant was worth a buy. Sallu, obviously, obliged. By the way, the entire operation was handled by Sallu's best friend Neelam - also, the go-in-between Sallu and David.

PERFORMANCE AT SCREEN AWARDS - Screen : January 22, 1999
It was time for some more entertainment which was lapped up by the crowds sprawled all over the stadium. The two brothers, Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan (dressed in a police officer’s uniform) took the stage and performed a skit which kept the crowds in splits. They found a whole lot of new admirers that night because what they did that night proved that they had the rare ability to laugh at themselves. That’s entertainment if entertainment has to mean real good healthy entertainment. It was good to know the Khans were so good...

MALAIKA-ARBAAZ WEDDING - Madame M, Cine Blitz : January, 1999
A little on the Malaika-Arbaaz wedding. It went off like a dream darlings. She looked gorgeous, he looked hot! Close friends who assembled at the Piano Bar to celebrate later, came away saying they had had a fab time. But I, who was seated at a private dinner for two at China Garden, saw Helen, Salma, Salim, Sohail & Seema, Salman, but NO Somy. When I told George to enquire, he was told that she had flown to London at the last minute. Naturally loves, people are spewing forth all about their split! Am I surprised? Never! Because Salman told me that his new year resolution was to marry Somy. So there!

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