As the son of veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, one would expect that Saif Ali Khan’s foray into Bollywood would be seamless and marked by lead roles in big films. However, after Saif Ali Khan debuted in 1993, he played a string of second and third lead characters. There was even a time when he was paid Rs 1000 weekly by a producer who had some additional, unsavoury demands.

Saif Ali Khan recently told Esquire, “I probably did have it easy, but I mean, of course I thought it was very hard for me." He explained, “We didn’t have the family background that empowered us to be a certain kind of movie star… our training was to be self-conscious, quiet, self-deprecating… not the larger-than-life persona that actors in the nineties were expected to have. We were taught not to grab attention to our

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