Salman Khan, who is all set to launch Aayush Sharma, his brother-in-law in Bollywood, was recently accused of nepotism. The actor straightaway denied it and said nepotism doesn’t work in Bollywood because the audience only accepts good films.

Salman went on to say that someone else would have launched Aayush Sharma if he didn’t since he had been working hard for years now. “He has been training hard. I knew this nepotism thing would come up.. He is son of a politician how can you put him into this nepotism thing. This is the only one place where nepotism cannot work at all. It is the audience that will make you a superstar or will reject you no matter whose son or a brother-in-law you are,” Salman Khan said at LoveYatri special concert.

The Race 3 actor cites his own example and says it is “totally the audience who decide what they like and what not”.

“You never know what they would like. You may be the best looking guy and best actor and they just reject you and you can have nothing. And then there is something about you that audience goes to watch your film in cinema halls but this is till your last film.” Salman also said the film industry had become a very competitive field which he believed was good.

He said he gets nervous on a Friday even today, especially when his films are releasing, be it as an actor or producer. “I remember when Maine Pyaar Kiya had released went on a bike with my friend in a theatre to gauge the reaction of the audience. During the interval, people saw me and I had to run away from there. It is one of the happiest moment for me.

“I am one of the fortunate ones that even my flop films do business of over Rs 100 crore. I told Aayush and Warina that even if you deliver a flop film it should do Rs 160 crore at the box office.. So now they have pressure of flop film.”

The film was earlier named ‘Loveratri’ but was changed by the producers after several complaints were lodged saying it hurt religious sentiments since it sounded similar to Hindu festival Navratri.

The film is set in the state of Gujarat and the onscreen couple’s love story unfolds over the span of the festival of Navratri.

Directed by Abhiraj Minawala, LoveYatri is produced by Salman Khan under the banner of Salman Khan Films and slated to release on October 5, 2018.

-With agency inputs