Salman Khan praises ex Katrina Kaif with glamorous pics
Khan posted teaser images of Kaif from their Tiger 3 dance number, calling her look a knockout ahead of the song's full release.
Salman Khan shared glamorous teaser images of former girlfriend Katrina Kaif from the pair's upcoming dance number in "Tiger 3," praising her look in the images, according to Gulte. Khan wrote, "Kat, you have killed it! Always a pleasure to dance with you," alongside the photos showing Kaif in black-and-yellow ensembles.
The images were teasers for the song "Leke Prabhu Ka Naam," with the full version set to follow the teaser's release, per the report. Khan and Kaif's relationship is widely reported to have run from roughly 2003 to 2010, ending over unspecified differences between the pair, according to coverage of Kaif's dating history from Bollywood Life and NewsX; Kaif went on to marry actor Vicky Kaushal in December 2021 in an intimate ceremony at Six Senses Fort Barwara in Rajasthan, after the two met at a party hosted by director Zoya Akhtar, per that same reporting.
The post came as the two continued a long-running professional collaboration on screen despite their past relationship having ended more than a decade earlier. "Tiger 3" marked another film pairing them together following earlier joint projects.
Their on-screen history
Khan and Kaif had previously starred together in "Tiger Zinda Hai" and "Bharat" before "Tiger 3," according to the report, making this their latest collaboration in a franchise and screen partnership that has continued well past the end of their real-life relationship.
The song's own backstory
"Leke Prabhu Ka Naam" carried its own notable reunion: singer Arijit Singh announced on October 19, 2023 that the track marked his first recording for a Salman Khan film since a 2014 dispute at an award show had led to him being barred from performing vocals for Khan's projects, according to Outlook India's coverage. Composer Pritam called the pairing "a collaboration that was waiting to happen," telling outlets that "Salman Khan is one of the biggest superstars and Arijit Singh, our generation's top singing sensation. These two stalwarts coming together for a song was long overdue."
Director Maneesh Sharma described the song as "an out and out party track," saying having "Arijit's voice on top of Salman's swag, is the cherry on top," and predicted it would be "another huge dance chartbuster," per Outlook India's reporting, which also credited Nikhita Gandhi with the female vocals, Pritam with the composition and Amitabh Bhattacharya with the lyrics.
Tiger 3's release and reception
"Tiger 3" released in theaters on November 12, 2023, timed to Diwali, with Khan playing Indian spy Avinash Singh Rathore, known as Tiger, opposite Kaif's Pakistani spy character Zoya, according to Variety's reporting; Emraan Hashmi played the film's antagonist. The film posted the biggest three-day opening of Khan's career and the biggest opening weekend for the Khan-Kaif pairing, grossing $22 million in India over its first three days and pulling in $6.3 million in India on its opening Sunday alone -- the highest-grossing Diwali day in Hindi-language cinema history, according to Forbes and Deadline's box office coverage.
A public, warmly worded post from Khan about Kaif's on-screen work drew attention precisely because of their romantic history, illustrating how Bollywood co-stars with a shared past routinely continue working -- and publicly promoting each other's work -- within the industry's franchise films.
US In News compiled this archived account from contemporaneous coverage by Gulte. It restores a story originally published on this site in October 2023; figures are as reported at the time.