When Saif Ali Khan’s ex-girlfriend got ‘angry’ after looking at his photoshoot with Kareena Kapoor: ‘She was freaking out’, reveals Dabboo Ratnani

Celebrity photographer Dabboo Ratnani has revealed that Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor met for the first time at his studio for a magazine shoot. Dabboo said that Saif’s then-girlfriend was ‘freaking out’ and was not very happy about the shoot. The photographer said that she kept asking him questions about their shoot and was angry because of the shoot.

In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Dabboo opened up about Saif and Kareena’s first shoot. He said, “There was a good chemistry. Saif ki wo time mei jo girlfriend thi, wo bahot gussa ho gayi thi (Saif’s then-girlfriend got very angry). She was there at the shoot. She was like, ‘What is this shoot? Why are they shooting together? They’re not doing a film together right now. Ye shoot kyun ho raha hai? (Why is this shoot happening).’ It was a magazine cover shoot. So, I remember she was freaking out.”

When asked if he saw the spark between the two of them, Dabboo said, “Both were obviously seeing different people. They had their respective boyfriend and girlfriend and I never thought.”

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Later, when Saif and Kareena got together, Dabboo sent them a framed picture from their first photoshoot. Saif remembered that photoshoot and asked Dabboo to write on it that that was the first time when he Kareena. Before dating Kareena, Saif was reportedly in a relationship with an Italian model, Rosa Catalano.

Kareena and Saif’s romance started on the sets of the movie Tashan. The two reportedly were in a live-in relationship and dated for five years before deciding to make things official. They tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in 2012. The couple have two children together–Taimur and Jeh Ali Khan.