Updated On: 22 March, 2025 11:11 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
On the latest episode of Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series, Sooraj Barjatya admitted that he doesn’t like the climax of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and asserted that he could have done it more gracefully

Salman Khan in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Sooraj Barjatya
Sooraj Barjatya`s Prem Ratan Dhan Payo starring Salman Khan and Sonam Kapoor revolves around the story of a royal family and how an outsider, Prem, played by Salman, tries to mend the broken bridges of the clan. However, the film failed to appeal to the critics who termed it a “royal pain”. On the latest episode of Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series, Sooraj admitted that he doesn’t like the climax of the film and asserted that he could have done it more gracefully.
Speaking about his bond with Salman Khan, Sooraj Barjatya shared, “I don’t go to his party. Our styles are very different but sometimes he says ‘Main agar Rajshri mein paida hota toh main aisa hota’. But at the core, we are both the same. He tells me, ‘Sooraj wohi karte hai, wohi baithte hai, wohi simple life hai, wohi maasi hai’. I went to him with Prem Ratan Dhan Payo`s first version of the script and today we can see through each other. He says, ‘Sooraj Bhau why are we complicating?’ I said ‘Salman Bhai your image is so big’, he said ‘Kaaika image’, and he said ‘Jaane do’. He said to go for simple. Yet I put some action to it because I wanted to also serve his audience which is so huge.”