Aayush Sharma opened up about a time when he didn’t have the money to buy breakfast but never asked Salman Khan for help.
Aayush Sharma recently addressed conversations around his marriage with Salman Khan’s sister, Arpita. He acknowledged the common public perception that he married her because he wanted to become an actor and needed his brother-in-law, superstar Salman Khan’s support. He called these allegations “baseless”. He told Siddharth Kannan, “was Arpita so ‘bholi bhaalo’ (naive) that she didn’t know why I was marrying her? People should know that before I got married, I had already given over 300 auditions and I had not cracked even one, so I was like I can’t do it. That’s when Salman said that my training was not nice and that he’d train me.”
Aayush, who’ll soon be seen in the action film Ruslaan, said that a false narrative was spun against him, implying that he is wasting Salman Khan’s money. Reacting to this, he said, “Then the narrative that was built was that I was wasting Salman Khan’s money. Should I have shared my income tax details on Instagram? Should I have showed people how much money I have and what I do with it? I’ll share a personal account with you — when on Friday Loveyatri (2018) had failed, Salman bhai called me that night to ask me what the reaction was like. I had tears in my eyes and told him, ‘Sorry, maine aapke paise dubaa diye (I wasted your money) and he said that I had gone mad. He wanted to know what I was thinking, feeling, so I said I was I wasted your money and that’s my biggest problem.”
Aayush also shared that there was a time he didn’t have the money to even buy breakfast for himself because his father was against his decision to become an actor. He shared, “When Antim (2021, also starring Salman Khan) came, I was here only at Ayaz (a restaurant in Bandra). I have a backstory of Ayaz. When I had just Rs 20 on me, I had my last meal there at night. After that, I didn’t have the money for breakfast. It’s the time when my father was against my decision to become an actor. I was at Ayaz, having a roll, and I got a call that the satellite and all the other rights of the film were all sold. When I heard the price, I wasn’t happy that Antim was releasing and we were going to make money, I was happier because hisaab kitaab barabar (accounts were settled) and that we had made a profit. Until then, I had a pressure on my head that a family member’s money was stuck.”