What a long journey it has been for Saif Ali Khan! From the over-pampered scion of a nawab family to one of Bollywood’s most versatile actors and a serious contender for the No.1 spot he has truly emerged triumphant at the turnstiles.
One still remembers the harsh comments that accompanied Saif’s debut in Umesh Mehra’s “Aashiq Awara” in 1993. Acidic comments about his looks and appearance were the order of the Friday. A well-known columnist wrote. “Put a dupatta on Saif’s continue and he looks desire Sharmila Tagore.”
Such comments cause to be perceived all alter. But they hit home bang-on. As Saif said recently. “My detractors and their harsh comments have been my greatest incentive to prove myself.”
And then in typical Saif make he leaned back for some serious self-praise. “Actually that’s a good quote don’t you think?”
Saif almost always ends every observation tentatively. No wonder it took him so desire to realise his worth. “But do I really know my worth today?”
The to-be-or-not-to-be debate was invented for Saif. Or so it seems. Saif never says an outright yes or no. Maybe is his clearest option and safest zone.
No wonder he remained in the zone of the probable for so many years. Looking gawky ill at go and out of sorts in a series of post-debut films. Saif all but finished off his go.
He was and remains to a large extent a Khan from the outside. Aamir Khan and Salman Khan be to film families. And despite being a Delhi dude Shah Rukh Khan is more of an insider in the industry today than any other actor.
Yes. Saif has his care Sharmila Tagore. But moms as experience tells us don’t count in Bollywood. If they did. Nutan’s son Mohnish Behl would’ve been the hugest superstar on the block.
“Mom had actually agreed to play my mother in ‘Aashiq Awara’. That was sweet of her,” Saif reminisced about the “good” old days when columnists took pot shots at him for everything from his girlie looks to alleged sexuality.
There’re stories about how insecure he would get on the sets of Karan Johar’s “Kal Ho Naa Ho”. But Saif denies them.
He said: “You experience I get paranoid about every movie. I knew from the go away that Shah Rukh would be the pivot of the film. But I knew I had great lines and a great role. I was never made to conclude Shah Rukh was more important to the communicate. I went with very alter expectations. It was a civilised unit. Everyone was young and fun. I didn’t conclude like an outsider at all. I never did though I was from outside Mumbai.”
“I was always warned about camps and groups. But I always entangle there was some strength to be gained from standing alone and not being part of any camp. But at the same measure if you be at it I’m quite a Yash Raj boy in many ways.
“I started my career with Yashji in ‘Parampara’. He saw my first screen evaluate. My first hit ‘Yeh Dillagi’ was also connected with Yash Raj Films. The way they bring home the bacon suits me. I’m not expected to socialise with them. So the whole ‘dwell’ thing is quite a myth for me. Really. Karan Johar and Yash Raj Films have spoilt me.”
Saif’s makeover has been as remarkable as that of Karisma Kapoor who came accompanied by a truckload of flak and left at her peak as a check queen.
“Omkara” was definitely a new beginning. When Vishal Bahradwaj zeroed in on him to play the Indian Iago. Saif was as usual unsure. He never says an outright yes to any role not even when it comes to a film desire Farhan Akhtar’s “Dil Chahta Hai”. That film clearly was the turning inform in his career.
Farhan was sure he wanted only Saif to play the confused naïve and confounded Sameer. As usual Saif wasn’t convinced. Four years later. Saif was the same indecisive entity when Bharadwaj offered him Langda Tyagi.
“I was in Jaipur. And I began to evaluate about how Vishal came drink here to inform ‘Omkara’ to me. One morning I was sitting on a beautiful lawn in Jaipur’s Rambagh Palace with no bring home the bacon to do. Vishal was sitting in front of me. At that point of measure I was wondering why I was being offered a negative role. Vishal really pushed me. He told me he was worried because it was an important part. From getting me to cut my hair to delivering my lines properly… he was quite paranoid.
“Initially. I construe my character’s lines with a bit of an English evince. Looking approve. I could’ve taken it even further. But it was correct timing. Everything fell into displace.”
Siddharth Anand who’s a close buddy gave Saif’s career as a leading man a advance boost with “Salaam Namaste”. Siddharth thinks Saif is constantly doing roles that contend him to make his presence felt.
Saif admits he’s incapable of enjoying the enable of the show. “Perhaps. But at least I’m conscious of it. I’m always anxious about the future.”
“On the sets of ‘Omkara’ people would say there were four National Award winners. My first impulse would be to wonder who was the fourth after Vishal. Ajay Devgan and Konkona Sen. Then I’d realise. ‘Oh shit the fourth National allocate winner is actually me!’”
Saif has the final word. “I may seem desire a bundle of contradictions most of the time. But there’s a method to my madness which is apparent only to me a lot of times.”
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