Khan's first release of 2011 was Ready.

Upon release, Ready became the second highest opening day grosser, as well as the second highest weekend
grossing Bollywood film at that time, after Dabangg. It also held records for being the second highest grossing Bollywood film of 2011.[59][60] He next appeared
in Bodyguard, a remake of the 2010 Malayalam film of the same name. The film was not well received by critics, though became a financial success, with a
domestic total of 1,409.5 million (US$26 million)India's highest-earning film of the year.[61]

Salman Khan with Katrina Kaif at the launch of Ek Tha Tiger's first song 'Mashallah'.

Khan's first release of 2012 was Ek Tha Tiger where he starred opposite Katrina Kaif and act as Indian Spy. The film garnered positive to mixed reactions from
critics[62] whilst opening to extremely strong box office collections.[63] The film went on to break the opening day box office record with a collection of 312.3
million (US$4.9 million)[64] and became the second Bollywood film to gross over 3 billion (US$47 million) worldwide behind only 3 Idiots with an eventual gross
of 3.1 billion (US$49 million).[65] It marks his first association with Yash Raj Films.[66] The film also broke the record of Opening weekend net gross (First 3 Days of
Release),[67]Opening week net gross (First 7 Days of Release) and entered 100 crore club in just 5 days of release breaking Salman Khan's own record set by
Bodyguard in 7 Days.[68]