Dana LaVoix

ICY­MI, a pho­tog­ra­phers' union, made a de­ci­sion to boy­cott Salman Khan af­ter some mem­bers were man­han­dled by the star's body­guards dur­ing a re­cent pro­mo­tion­al event.

Re­act­ing to a news­pa­per re­port last Mon­day, Salman tweet­ed: "This is wat I call a stand, the pho­tog­ra­phers r gonna lose out on wrk, but hv still tak­en a de­ci­sion not to take my pics, hap­py fr them. I wld hv im­mense re­spect for them if they keep this stand."

He doesn't seem to be too both­ered by the "ban" does he? The as­so­ci­a­tion ap­par­ent­ly want­ed the ac­tor to apol­o­gise, but the mak­ers of Kick be­lieve that he does not need to "ex­press re­gret for some­thing he isn't re­spon­si­ble for."

And just so you know that it re­al­ly doesn't mat­ter to him, Salman adds: "It's fine...now I can come in front of you and do the tow­el dance and you can't click those pic­tures. Now what will hap­pen...there are pho­tog­ra­phers who will take my pic­tures, they will trav­el with me and re­lease those pic­tures for my fans."

He is not the on­ly celeb to have the same ban, new­com­er Shrad­dha Kapoor al­so made head­lines re­cent­ly when she snubbed the pa­parazzi.

So, I guess if we were look­ing for pho­to­graph­ic ev­i­dence of this sup­posed "gift", there may not be any. It is ru­moured that Khan bought an apart­ment for his Kick co-star Jacque­line Fer­nan­dez. In an in­ter­view from the Mum­bai Mir­ror, Jacque­line was quot­ed as say­ing, "Re­al­ly? So where is this apart­ment? I've been sav­ing up for­ev­er and now can af­ford to buy a nice car but a house is still a pipe dream." She re­al­ly can­not un­der­stand why peo­ple be­lieves the gos­sip, and says that it "negates all the hard work" she puts in.