Was paid well: Sonali Kulkarni on playing Salman's mother despite being 9 years younger

Sonali Kulkarni played Salman Khan's mother in the 2019 film 'Bharat', despite being nine years younger than him. She initially felt she couldn't take the role but was convinced by director Ali Abbas Zafar and casting director Mukesh Chhabra. Calling the flashback sequences crucial to the film, Sonali said she accepted it as a challenge and was paid "really well".