Few months back, when the first images of ‘Veer’ were released to press, it swept everyone off the ground with its element of surprise – looks. The ‘warrior-look’ and the skin color fetched Salman the kind of publicity he must have wanted – after Yuvraaj doomed at the box-office – but at the same time other stories popped up as a tad that ‘Veer’ is an inspiration of Salman’s flopped work [Veergati-1995] of his pink days.

But recently the story was proven wrong when sources claimed that ‘Veer’ is actually based on a Russian literary masterpiece ‘Taras Bulba’ written by Nikolai Gogol.

It’s a narration of Cossack patriarch Taras and his two warrior sons, who go on to an epic journey that ends in a battle with Polish.

How Salman fairs as one of the Taras sons is yet-to-be-seen, but images coming from the sets of ‘Veer’ are creating a lot of premonitions.

Will he be able to prove critics wrong? Is he still his ‘Mr. Most Bankable’ self? Or showbiz’s [Bollywood] controversy child will be lost in the battlefields of Veer, remains to be seen!!!

Let’s hope its other way round…