/> Salman Khan has still not given up on his protégée Zarine Khan. After her far-from-satisfying debut in Veer the superstar has been recommending her to his favourite directors.

Last week he convinced Anees Bazmi to let Zarine make a cameo appearance in Ready.Zarine flew down to Bangkok for the same.

Salman's favourite are so apparent, you just have to look at his films to know who they are. After he had been incarcerated Mahima Chowdhary who visited him in jail in Jodhpur showed up as his co-star in Baghban and also in song for Tere Naam.

Of late after Dabangg Salman has grown really close to his brother Arbaaz. Not surprisingly Arbaaz flew to Bangkok on Friday on his Bade Bhai's insistence to shoot a cameo in Anees Bazmi's Ready. Accompanying Arbaaz was Salman's Veer co-star Zarine Khan struggling to find a foothold in filmdom after her maiden fiasco.

Arbaaz and Zarine shot with Salman in Pattaya on Friday evening.

Director Anees Bazmi confirms, "It's a small scene. We needed Arbaaz and Zarine. Salman's equation with them made it easy for us to get them to agree to do the scene."

Salman loves promoting new talent and aggressively pushes them until they find their level. Apparently Anees had another actress in mind for the cameo. It was on Salman's insistence that Zarine got the part. Apparently Anees initially begged off arguing the role was too brief to do justice to the heroine of Veer.

"But Salman felt Zarine is being left behind for no fault of hers. Last year he had equal faith in both his protegees Sonakshi Sinha and Zarine Khan. Salman somehow feels responsible for Zarine's career not taking off. He is trying to get her into his new projects, " says a source.

Apparently Salman has also spoken to his buddy Sajid Nadiadwala about a role for Zarine in Kick which starts in the middle of the year.