Here's How Salman Khan Approached Raveena Tandon for Patthar Ke Phool

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00:00 It was crazy the way I got Pathar Ke Phool also.

00:02 Vivek Vaswani didn't know who I was and he approached me.

00:06 I was having pizza with my friends and he said,

00:09 "You know, my director thinks that you are his character.

00:13 Can we know your name?"

00:15 So I looked at him and I said, "You don't recognize me?"

00:18 He said, "No." I said, "I'm Rajiv Tandon's sister."

00:21 So Vivek knew my brother at that time.

00:22 He said, "Oh my God, you're Ravi ji's daughter."

00:24 I said, "Yeah."

00:25 So then they approached and Sippy sahib approached

00:28 and simultaneously at that time Bunty,

00:33 who was a friend of mine and a co-model,

00:36 he was with me on an ad.

00:38 We were shooting together and he called Salman and said,

00:40 "You have to meet this girl, Raveena.

00:42 I think she's the next big thing and you're looking for a new girl."

00:46 So Salman came to see separately my work.

00:49 So it was all maybe destiny.

00:51 It just played out in such a way that, you know,

00:53 and there was no way because I had already said no to what,

00:56 five films before Pathar Ke Phool.