EXCLUSIVE:Salman was sleeping when the rumour of his engagement broke out

By Seema Sinha

Updated on Nov 08, 2015 | 11:26 PM IST | 1.5M

Time and again, rumour mills get fresh wind with speculation on Salman Khan and his wedding plans. And some time back, there were talks of Salman and Romanian model and television presenter, Lulia Vantur getting engaged and there were reports that he was set to marry her early next year.

Now, when Salman was asked how it felt when he heard about the rumour, which first came out in the foreign media, he said light-heartedly, "Oh, I loved the rumour about my engagement," and he further went on to narrate an anecdote related to it. "When the rumour about my engagement broke out, some journalist called my father and said, ‘Mubarak ho, Salman Saab has got engaged, and my dad, who obviously got a bit perplexed, replied - 'I don’t think so...he is sleeping'," said Salman while laughing away.

Further, Salman goes on to explain how it all happened. He says, "This news came out in the foreign media because Lulia’s friend whose name is also Lulia, was wearing a ring. She gave that ring to Lulia (Salman's friend) to wear and suddenly the news was splashed all over, but in five minutes Lulia cleared out that it was her friend's ring and there's no engagement, nothing. But by then it was all aish (celebration) for the media here. I felt let the rumours about my engagement go on, what difference does it make?

Salman's younger sister Arpita Khan Sharma later rubbished the rumours on Twitter saying, 'Do not believe everything you read in the papers or on different websites online,' she wrote.Even around the time of Arpita's wedding, there were rumours doing the round that Salman had told his family that Lulia was his girlfriend. There has never been any official confirmation from Salman, though. .