Salman Khan is not known to promote newcomers beyond a certain point unless he is part of the cast of a film,like did when he was the lead in Jai Ho.. But for Pulkit Samrat and Bilal Amrohi who co-star in Salman's brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri's O Teri, Salman is pulling out all stops.

According to sources from within the production Salman would be taking time off for city to city tours with Bilal and Pulkit , for the first time in his career.In this endeavour Salman would be shuffling around with his shooting schedules for Sajid Nadiadwala's Kick and various other commitments to make time for O Teri.

And Salman's yatra from the newbies starts in Delhi this week.

Salman is currently shooting for Kick in Delhi.


Informs debutant Bilal Amrohi, `Salman Bhai is in Delhi right now. He has asked Pulkit and I to join him there, so he can promote the film with us. Bhai would be accompanying us on various city tours.`

Bilal admits Salman has never gone so out of his way for any film before. `But then he is more than family to us. The Amrohis are very close to Salman Bhai and his family.`

Salman's father writer Salim Khan was very close to Bilal's grandfather the legendary filmmaker Kamal Amrohi and to Bilal's father Tajdar Amrohi.

O Teri was planned with Pulkit and Bilal, both favourite protegees of Salman.

Bilal confesses he is closer to Salman's brother-in-law than to Salman. `I call Alvira Khan(Salman's sister, Atul Agnihotri's wife) 'Baby Maa'. I feel I have three mothers .My biological mother,then my Uncle Shaandar's wife who has brought me up like her own child and Baby Maa. I am blessed, I guess.`

It was to get away from all this triple-layered mothering that Bilal took a 6-month acting course in Los Angeles.

`I deliberately chose a city where I had no family and friends, to learn acting. I was on my own in LA for six months. That helped me to grow up,` says Bilal who admits the O Teri project first went to his co-star Pulkit Samrat who is Salman's raakhi-sister's fiance.


Says Bilal, `It was Pulkit who came across the script. He tok it across to Salman Bhai who immediately warmed up to the script and told Atul Agnihotri, 'Bro-in-law, we have to make this film'. That's how O Teri happened.`

Bilal can't wait to see how audiences react to the film. `Pulkit and I play two squabbling Tom & Jerry type tv journalists. We start off as bumbling fools and end up as reluctant heroes. I couldn't have asked for a better launch and I couldn't have hoped for a better producers to launch me.Salman and his family are like a second family to me.`