Sooraj-Sylvester
Sooraj Pancholi like his mentor Salman Khan idolises the Hollywood action hero
Melissa D’Costa D’Silva (DNA; September 2, 2015)

Like mentor, like protege — this statement definitely applies to Hero producer Salman Khan and his film’s lead actor Sooraj Pancholi. For apart from their love for drawing, they also share a common idol in Hollywood action hero Sylvester Stallone. In fact, Salman had recently tweeted, “Agar kisi ko follow karna hai? Bahar ka... inko follow karo @TheSlyStallone. Aapke hero ka hero Sylvester Stallone. @TheSlyStallone Isse beheter body, director, writer, insaan koi nahi hai. I’ve always followed him in life but my fault not on social media.” Stallone too graciously accepted the compliment and tweeted back, “Would like to thank the super talented Indian superstar Salman Khan for the compliment he tweeted! We should do an action film together! Salman, I am very impressed with your many devoted fans. To make a great action film successful takes many great fans who support you, Sly. Maybe the new Expendables.”

And while Salman expressed his admiration for Stallone with the tweet, Sooraj plans to do so by making a fitness video as a tribute to Stallone. Sooraj says, “Sylvester Stallone is my idol and I am planning to make a fitness video as a tribute to him. It will include montages of different types of workouts and will have dialogues from his films or his inspirational quotes in the background.” The actor apart from being fitness conscious is also a music lover, and a closet drummer. He adds, “Very few people know that I used to play the drums in school. I don’t do that anymore but I do enjoy drawing abstract things.”