

I started taking more responsibility for my actions. I guess the birth of my daughter Sara had a lot to do with the change in me. “It wasn’t as if realization struck me just like that, one fine day. I think it’s important to draw a line somewhere between stardom and reality. So why bother? Why not just do your bit and chill. I mean, I couldn’t benefit from someone else’s failure. I realized that I didn’t want to be part of the rat race. I was like this big drama king, man.” A pause and he announces “And then, I grew up. “When I joined films, I loved the idea of being this cool dude movie star. I can pretend to be in control like others do. He’s just muddling along through life just like me. He’s someone who is not in control of his own life. “Sameer Mulchandani in Dil Chahta Hai is me in a good mood. “Hey, I’m just like him,” Saif shoots back. Clueless and always looking for the right answers. He reminds me of Sameer Mulchandani in Dil Chahta Hai. He’s sitting at his plush Lokhandwala bungalow (wife Amrita Singh’s to be precise) sporting colourful pyjamas, a body-hugging Tee and an endearing smile. What’s the use of planning?” Saif concedes.

So, if you are sensible you don’t through grief.

And we actors are mere mortals who struggle to change our destiny without realizing that the script.Our life…Has already been written. The director is God and the writer is the creator. “Acting, I have realized is just like life. That’s when Saif Ali Khan stopped planning and started believing in fate. He was no longer a Saif…., oops a safe proposition. While contemporaries like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan and even Salman Khan were able to sustain their popularity, the box office was not ringing any more for Saif. Till a spate of flops spoiled things for ever. Life was a party and Saif was the life of the party. Yeh Dillagi (1994) did better and brought him what he calls his “flashy Mitsubishi movie star Pajero”. His plans backfired but films happened.Īfter being chucked from his debut film Bekhudi with Kajol no less, he signed Aashiq Awara (1993) with Mamta Kulkarni! The film did decent business at the box office. He got married to Amrita Singh (at the age of twenty-one) while he was planning his next move. He got thrown out of his debut film while he was planning his film career. He got films on a platter while he was planning his next party. Life happened to Saif Ali Khan while he was busy making other plans. And its success, he hopes, is a sign of better days to come. He is older, wiser and father of two children. Things are on the mend now, he says, though he still has to look for work. While everyone else was working he was ‘chilling out’.
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Everyone around him was more professional than he was. With his impeccable pedigree, Saif Ali Khan had everything going for him when he started out ten years ago, even success.
