Kabir Khan on working with Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif in 'Ek Tha Tiger': 'They had broken up, it wasn't comfortable'

Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif came together for Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger in 2012, which was the biggest hit of that year, produced by Yash Raj Films. The film later bloomed into a franchise. Speaking on Mukesh Chhabra’s upcoming podcast with Mashable India, the director spilled some beans.

He revealed, “Katrina had already been signed. She was Zoya. And then we went to Salman. This was the stage when they had broken up. It wasn't like comfortable.”

Recently, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif’s ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ action director Conrad Palmisano passed away, and the film’s director Kabir Khan shared a BTS picture on Instagram to remember his friend and wrote- “Thank you for giving us that fabulous action in Ek Tha Tiger. I will miss you…” Katrina too paid her last respects by sharing a folded hands emoji.

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The actress was recently seen in part three of this franchise and the one action scene that stood out was the one with Kaif in a towel.

She revealed, “I had lost one of the key fighters right before the sequence to bad health. That person would train me in details and when I lost him, I felt like my lifeline had been snatched away.”

On calling up  Tiger Shroff

I can’t remember how I got the idea, but I called up Tiger ( Shroff) and told him I need someone who will be correcting every beat and they know how to keep your body warm so that you don’t get injured. And he very sweetly sent across one of his team members who was with me on the set along with other trainers and the other action team members. It was really mind over matter because we’d all been so tired and my body was really tired. Like, there was just 12 hours of hectic action.