Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif have been together for a long time but in the past few months, the issue of growing distance between the two has been cropping up now and again. The two started dating in 2004, shortly after Katrina moved to India to pursue her Bollywood career. Salman helped her a lot, and used all his contacts to help her ascend the ladder of stardom.

The rumors of Salman breaking up with Kaif gained solidarity when Salman told in an interview to TV channel Headlines Today, “I have broken up with Katrina. We were friends then for everybody, we are friends now.”

He even went on to explain the reason behind the breakup, “Koi cheez tootati hain toh isliye kyonki ya to different ways chali gayi hai, ya ek shakhs ki growth nahin hui, ya ek ne kuch aur path chun liya hai, ya sensibility samajh mein nahi aati, ya thinking galat ho gayi hain (A relationship breaks if it gets stretched in different directions, or one person does not grow, or the other person takes a different path, or there is some misunderstandingor they have grown out of love.)”

“So there are different interferences, the parents perhaps… or the interference of anything,” he said, adding, “it’s just two people not getting along, something that obviously doesn’t end peacefully. But if you can manage to stay friends, there is nothing like it.”

This adds to another sad end of a long affair in Bollywood!!