Manoj Bajpayee ‘did not buy’ Saif Ali Khan’s underprivileged act in Aarakshan: ‘Nawab saab…’

He then recalled another anecdote about working with Manoj on JP Dutta’s 2003 film LOC Kargil. Saif said that they drank and “nearly went blind.” “We were holed up in some mountainside with JP, and I was in his room. I said, ‘Have you got anything to drink?’ He said, ‘I have this rum’ and it said Hercules XXX rum which we drank and nearly went blind,” he shared with a laugh, and said, “I love Manoj.”

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In the same interview, Saif recalled another hilarious anecdote from his early days in the movies, when Aditya Chopra held up cue cards for him. Saif shared that contrary to people’s perception, he didn’t have a problem with Hindi as he knew how to speak the language, but he was just conscious about it. He admitted that he had a strong English accent, probably because of his education in the UK.

As the interviewer recalled “this story of Aditya Chopra holding up cue cards for you,” Saif said that he had to do a “little bit of a screen test for Parampara.” Directed by Yash Chopra, Parampara was Saif’s first film, and it also starred Sunil Dutt, Vinod Khanna, Aamir Khan, Neelam, Raveena Tandon, among others. Saif shared that everybody started laughing when he fumbled a line.

Saif has been in the movies for over 30 years now. He will next be seen in the Jr NTR-starrer Devara. He also hinted that he will soon reunite with wife Kareena Kapoor in an upcoming project.