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A hard act to follow

Malayalam cinema star Dulquer Salmaan makes his Bollywood debut. Can he live up to expectations?

Dulquer Salmaan is wearing a plain white T-shirt with a stain in the middle, but the female reporter before us only has eyes on the Malayali heart-throbs face. She tells him how he has a legion of female admirers in her office since his 2015 Mani Ratnam-directed Tamil film OK Kanmani. The 31-year-old actor, son of Malayalam superstar Mammootty, blushes but downplays his appeal. In Mumbai for 10 days to promote his Hindi film debut, Karwaan, he is learning the ropes of promotions in Bollywood.

In Kerala, says Salmaan, he barely does any. But with Karwaan's lead, Irrfan, away in London

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