Inside The ROTORIS Room: Saif Ali Khan on Ambition, Craft, and Identity

Saif Ali Khan has been the face of the industry for three decades and has never been confined within any definition. He made a transition from mainstream Hindi film to more complex and surprising characters, leaving the audience with something different to consider. 

It’s not all Bollywood that makes him so popular. Saif has played numerous roles and has appeared as the urban romantic, the brooding antihero, the reluctant royal, and much more. Across those roles, he has developed a more individualistic personality, one that is driven by instinct and prepared to adapt, rather than by maintaining one image all his working life. 

It is this quality that makes Saif Ali Khan’s association with Rotoris particularly fitting.

Saif Ali Khan on Family, Memory, And The Legacy Of A Royal Estate

My earliest memory of Pataudi is of hurrying behind my father on a blazing summer afternoon, as he walked across the sunburnt grass in Kolhapuri chappals.

We had just driven in through the long approach, past the slightly battered iron gate, the car stopping halfway down the drive before the house had even fully appeared. My father would get out and take a detour to the left. I followed him.

At the end of an imaginary line drawn through the centre of the house and the land around it stood my grandfather’s grave: four pillars of otherworldly marble and a headstone adorned with fading calligraphy. The first thing my father always did at Pataudi was offer his prayers there. As children, we learned to do the same. So before the house, there was remembrance. Before rooms, meals, cricket, or even conversation, there was that small pilgrimage.

I never met my grandfather. He died playing polo on my father’s 11th birthday, after which he never celebrated it again. I discovered Pataudi Sr. like a detective or a historian, through what he had said, what others had said about him, old cricket writings, photographs, the books he read, the suits he wore, and the house he built.

Video: Saif Ali Khan spotted in the city

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A photo of Saif Ali Khan and Soha at her birthday party

Unseen photo of Saif Ali Khan from a photoshoot

New poster of Saif Ali Khan for House of Pataudi

Saif Ali Khan & Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Talks for Ritesh Batra’s Next International Film

Saif Ali Khan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas may finally share the screen, with the two actors reportedly in talks to headline an international film by The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra, if our sources are to be believed.

The project is expected to be an international outing for Batra, who has previously moved between Indian and international stories through films such as The Lunchbox, The Sense of an Ending and Our Souls at Night. If the casting comes together, the film will also mark the first collaboration between Saif and Priyanka, who have been spoken about as potential co-stars in the past but have never actually worked together.