Actor Salman Khan's alleged underworld connections were exposed by Hindustan Times Mumbai edition yesterday. The report showed how the actor threatened actress Aishwarya Rai in the year 2001 to perform at a show organized by underworld don Abu Salem. Ash was his girlfriend then. The phone conversation between Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai was tapped and finally exposed yesterday. The report also mentioned how Salman Khan boasted of his clout with the underworld and boasted of having good contacts with not only Abu Salem but also Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan. He threatened the actress saying that he had the power to get her father killed and brother seriously injured if she did not do the show. The report also mentions that how Khan knew about the bomb blasts. He also knew that it was Abu Salem who had backed Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, a fact that Bharat Shah and Rizvi were not even aware of. He reportedly also knew about the bomb blast that rocked Mumbai in 1993. The conversation between Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai is mostly about Salman Khan wanting her to do Abu Salem's show saying that his "ass" was at stake.

Throughout the conversation, Rai has spoken very little - sometimes asking Salman if he was drunk to asking him to shut up and that he did not know what he was talking about. Reports also have it that the Mumbai police always knew about Khan's underworld connections but could not prove it. It was since a long time that Mumbai police was waiting for an opportunity to teach Salman Khan a lesson and the opportunity came when Khan accidentally killed two innocent people at Bandra's American Bakery. Reports have it that the police took Khan to special cell and he was made to use the loo that was not washed for months. An eyewitness said that the bathroom stink made Khan puke. He was made to sleep on stone flooring that was swarmed by mosquitoes. It seems, Salman Khan continues to be the one man media loves to hate.


**jeez why won't people just leave him alone**