New Delhi: Salman Khan gave an interview, along with his girlfriend Katrina Kaif and brother Sohail Khan that was broadcast on the BBC Asian Network's Gagan Grewal show on Friday 1 September.

In the interview, Indian cinema star Salman Khan, who faces manslaughter charges, said he is "exploited" by the Indian media, and blames it for his "negative" off-screen image.

Interviewed by the BBC Asian Network, the actor said "controversy after controversy" had been covered, adding that while a section of the media wanted to write positive things about him, they were powerless.

It is widely know that the 41-year-old has a reputation for reckless behaviour and was found guilty earlier this year of poaching an endangered Chinkara antelope species.

Of his "bad-boy" image Khan said, "There's a business section that wants to portray everything negatively so that they can sell magazines or get good top ratings on TV," in an interview with the BBC Asian Network, a radio station aimed at Asians in Britain.

In June, the actor was charged with killing two Black buck deer (Chinkara), which is a protected antelope species, during a hunting trip in 1998 while on a game reserve in the state of Rajasthan on a film shoot.

Additionally, in April the actor was sentenced to a five-year jail term - currently under appeal - for a separate incident of hunting Chinkara in Rajasthan.

The actor, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is currently on bail while his appeal is being heard.

According to Khan, his conviction was flawed and that the judge only sentenced him to wanted to make an example of him.

"Apparently the judge said that openly," Khan said.

"They wanted to set an example out of me...Who knew the Black buck? I mean today because of me, people know there's an endangered species of deer called Black buck, well it's actually an antelope."

However, the poaching cases are not Salman Khan's first brush with the law. On the contrary, he is also facing trial in Mumbai in a 2002 hit-and-run case in which he killed someone.

One person was killed and three others injured when Khan was driving drunk and drove into a group of homeless people sleeping on a pavement. Khan has denied allegations that he was at the wheel, drunk and without a licence.

Khan faces 10 charges, which includes causing death by negligent driving, which carries two years in prison. Despite multiple witnesses, he has pleaded not guilty on all counts.

In his interview with the BBC, in addition to his adamant defense of himself, Khan also took a swipe at his Bollywood rival Shah Rukh Khan for opting to act in a new film about infidelity that moves away from the norm.

"There's a lot of people out there who like him, and he moved away from his image, but it didn't work," adding that he had advised Shah Rukh against acting in "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna", which nonetheless is still running to packed houses in India, and broke all box office records in its first week.