Salman Khan may be a Muslim but he respects every religion as is evident by his feelings expressed in regards to the same during his interviews and a reality shows episodes. The Painter in him also displays his religion broadmindedness through his paintings. Most of his paintings combine two religions together. Like his most well known painting which has the portrait of Jesus Christ along with a mosque.

But Salman also chooses to practice what he advocates. A source close to him revealed us more about it, “Salman is playing a Sikh character in Samir Karnik’s Heroes. His character sports a turban in the movie like Sikhs do. So involved was he with his turbaned Sikh character that he kept away himself from smoking whenever he was on the sets sporting the turban. When his co-stars and director tried to find out the reason, Salman told them Sikhs consider smoking antisocial and dirty. So it was out of his sheer respect for the community that he was not smoking when he had his turban on for the role of a Sikh.”

Producer of Heroes, Vikas Kapoor revealed, “Salman respects all religion and follows them religiously. He knew that Sikhs generally don’t smoke as they are prohibited by their religion. Thus taking that into consideration Salman decided not to smoke during the shoot of this film.”

Vikas adds, “I remember sometimes he used to spend 10 hours in the same get up but didn’t smoke at all. Salman did it out of respect for the Sikh religion. Apart from his attire, “Salman also grew his beard to make his get up look real. His respect for the turban made him stay away from cigarettes.”

Salman Khan’s family is a icon of National Integration. His dad, writer Salim Khan is married to a Maharashtrian, Hindu. His brother Sohail and Arbaaz have married a Hindu and a Christian respectively. His sister Alvira too has married a Hindu. No wonder Salman respects all the religions and millions of fans from all the religions!