Raghav Juyal has built a career on spontaneity, but even he wasn’t prepared for what happened at Salman Khan’s farmhouse. The actor and dancer recently opened up about spending three surreal days with Salman at his Panvel estate, a place that, according to Raghav, feels less like a farmhouse and more like another planet.
In a conversation with Ranveer Allahbadia, Raghav said that his biggest takeaway from Salman wasn’t just how to live large, but how to live generously. “He’s a giver,” Raghav said, describing the superstar’s habit of hosting guests with warmth and unfiltered energy. “The kind of fun we had there was of another level. He loves to take care of people; he loves to host. Bhayanakar party… Then I watched horses mating as well. He said, let’s go watch horses mate. It was 3 am. I’d never seen anything like it in my life.”
That bizarre 3 a.m. adventure, as Raghav tells it, perfectly sums up Salman’s unpredictable world. “There was a stallion. His farmhouse is incredible fun. He has dirt bikes that you can drive through waterfalls and streams. It was better than a five-star experience. He has a randomness. Parties go on all night… The ATVs come out at 4 am. Earth alag chal raha hai, aur unka world alag chal raha hai (He exists in his own reality).”
The Panvel farmhouse, over the years, has become a near-mythical setting in Bollywood stories — part playground, part sanctuary, part legend. From Eid feasts to late-night bonfires, countless celebrities have described it as a place where time bends and hierarchy dissolves. Raghav’s account only reinforces that image, with its strange mix of chaos and care, discipline and indulgence.
He went on to describe Salman’s simplicity during those nights of excess. “He has a habit of sitting to eat with everyone, especially when there is a feast. All the actors sit to eat with him inside a tent. It feels like home,” Raghav said in an earlier chat with Humans of Bombay. “I have been scolded by him many times, but it was like your father or elder brother was scolding you.”
Raghav worked with Salman on Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, and says that the experience wasn’t just professional — it was transformative. He learned what it means to build your own path, a lesson he connects to both Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. “They both have charted their own routes in the film industry,” Raghav said. “They’ve maintained individuality in their careers. They follow their instincts.”
His encounter with Shah Rukh came through Aryan Khan’s The Bads of Bollywood, a Netflix project produced by Red Chillies Entertainment. Raghav said that working on Aryan’s show gave him the opportunity to interact with SRK and observe the same quality he admired in Salman — conviction. “They’re very different men,” he said, “but both have a certain faith in their way of doing things. That’s something I’ve taken to heart.”
Interestingly, Raghav isn’t the only one with larger-than-life memories from Salman’s farmhouse. Actor Sudeep’s daughter, Sanvi, once shared a story that paints a similar picture, impulsive, emotional, and unforgettable. “He got so fond of me that day,” she said in an interview with Jinal Modi. “He made me sing. So I sang for him, and at 3 am, he has called his music directors and said, ‘I am sending this girl. I want you to record her on track, keep her voice, in case we need her for something.’ I went the next day. After that, he invited me back to his farmhouse. From morning to night, I would be around him. He refused to let me go.”
These stories Raghav’s and Sanvi’s sketch a portrait of Salman Khan that the public rarely sees. Not the superstar behind the sunglasses, but the restless host, the man who blurs the line between fantasy and real life. A night at his farmhouse might include a lavish dinner, an ATV ride through a waterfall, and yes, even a biology lesson in the stables at 3 a.m.
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