‘I have struggled too’: When Saif Ali Khan said going door to door looking for work, taking autos isn’t the only kind of struggle

Asked if he had to experience fewer struggles in comparison to others when he started out, Saif said, “People think struggle is taking auto rickshaws and going from door to door looking for opportunities. I’ve struggled as well, but my struggle has been different. I was kicked out of my first film, because the director said, ‘You either leave your girlfriend or you do the film’. It was a moral choice. How do you say moral choice in Hindi?” When he was told that he was in a ‘dharam sankat’, Saif initially felt that it was ‘too dramatic’, but then seemed to like the sound of it.

Saif also said that he knew by the age of six that he was no good at cricket, and so when he grew up, he decided to take a stab at acting, because he genuinely felt that he could do as well as his mother. He has since established himself as one of the leading actors in the Hindi film industry. Saif was last seen in the critical and commercial disaster Adipurush.