Salman Khan discussed family leadership on the Dumb Biryani podcast with Arhaan Khan, sharing insights on respecting family heads and learning from his father Salim Khan.
Salman Khan opens up on his life.
In a candid conversation on the Dumb Biryani podcast with nephew Arhaan Khan (Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora’s son) and his friends, Salman Khan shared his thoughts on the role of the head of the family and the responsibility that comes with it. He reflected on how a family’s guidanc e—though sometimes strict or difficult to accept — is always rooted in a desire to see loved ones succeed. Drawing from his own experiences with his father, Salim Khan, Salman admitted that while he once struggled to understand his father’s wisdom, he later realised that it came from a place of knowing what was best for him.
He said, “The head of the family should be respected because nobody would want you from the family, from the people who you love to be unsuccessful or going through shit in your life. So they might tell you like me and my father earlier used to have this thing, whatever he says, I’m doing this, ‘don’t do this’, ‘you’ll get screwed’, ‘don’t do this’, ‘you’ll get screwed’. So my problem with my father at that given point in time was, how is he so right when I’m so wrong? And that was the biggest thing that I needed to change.”
He also spoke about his own approach to giving advice – how he is incredibly tough on himself but understands that different people need different kinds of support. Some need encouragement, some need validation, and some need brutal honesty. Knowing when to be direct and when to be gentle, he explained, is key to truly being there for people in a way they can understand.
Salman continued, “So today, if I give you advice, if I give you advice the way I speak to myself, you would hate me. You would hate me because I speak to myself rather harshly. I speak to myself abusively in Hindi, English – ke upar waale ne saaley tujhe itna kuch diya hai and this is what you are doing? – but now that is me. If the same way I speak to you, I will lose everyone. So for you guys, for somebody else, you need to know, will that person want encouragement? Will that person want, validation? Will that person want to be told the truth, or sweet lies, or, give it to him straight out. Or say, no, no, this is all fine, this is going to be okay, and slowly lay it in.”
