Former promoting filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar, who labored with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan throughout her modelling days, had beforehand mirrored on the actor’s extremely publicised cut up from Salman Khan. In a 2025 interview, he claimed that whereas the breakup itself introduced her reduction, what damage her most was feeling deserted by the movie trade, which she believed had rallied behind Salman.Kakkar recalled standing by Aishwarya throughout that section. In keeping with him, she had misplaced religion within the trade after the connection ended.“I used to be simply supportive of her. I advised her, ‘Don’t fear about it.’ She mentioned, ‘However the trade…’ Her biggest damage was being deserted by the trade for Salman. She actually felt that; she felt so betrayed. The breakup, actually, was an enormous reduction on the finish of it,” he had mentioned, in an interview with Vickey Lalwani.He additional claimed that Aishwarya’s disappointment stemmed much less from the tip of the connection and extra from how she believed the trade reacted to it.“She wasn’t upset in regards to the breakup. She was upset that everyone took Salman’s aspect and never hers. The reality was on her aspect. She didn’t belief the trade anymore as a result of it wasn’t taking part in honest. I might perceive if she was unsuitable and the opposite social gathering was proper, or if each side had been handled equally. However nothing — it was fully one-sided,” Kakkar added.Kakkar additionally made claims about Salman’s behaviour throughout that interval, alleging that the actor was “very bodily and obsessive” and asking, “How do you take care of someone like that?”Nonetheless, he clarified that Aishwarya by no means mentioned the matter with him immediately. As a substitute, he mentioned his observations got here from residing in the identical constructing as the previous couple.“No, I knew as a result of I used to be residing in the identical constructing. He used to make scenes within the lobby and would bang his head on the wall. The connection had ended lengthy earlier than it formally ended. It was a reduction for everybody — her mother and father, her, the entire world,” he shared.Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai reportedly ended their relationship in 2002 and by no means collaborated on a movie once more. Years later, in a 2012 interview with Simi Garewal, Aishwarya briefly addressed the breakup however selected to not elaborate on it publicly.“I feel I’ve fairly shut it out. I feel I wouldn’t need to get into taking a look at it any which approach and particularly on a public platform. I actually wouldn’t need to.”
