Saif Ali Khan recently spoke about his relationship with Kareena Kapoor Khan, revealing how guidance from Rani Mukerji played a role in their early days. Years ago, while appearing on Kareena’s chat show, the actor made a candid confession about the time they started dating. Saif shared that when he began his relationship with Bebo, close friend and co-star Rani Mukerji offered him meaningful advice that stayed with him during those early moments of romance — “Just behave like you are in a relationship with a man.” After dating for 5 long years, Saif and Kareena got married in 2012. The happily married couple, and parents to sons Taimur Ali Khan and Jehangir Ali Khan, celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary. So did Rani’s advice work?
Saif talks about Kareena in his latest interview: “She is one of the most patient and loving people I’ve met. She can work and be this actor/star but another side of her wants to be a mother, wife and a homemaker. I’m so lucky. I could go on and on but there is ‘Nazar’.” byu/FactsSpeaker60 inBollyBlindsNGossip
Discussing how the advice doesn’t always apply to his wife, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan explained this during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter India. “She (Kareena) truly is an incredible, incredible woman and I’m so lucky to be with her because she is one of the most patient and loving people I’ve met and she’s just absolutely wonderful. I could go on and on, I could give you examples, but I mean, you know, it’s a bit much, it’s a bit mushy (blushing).” Talking about Rani Mukerji’s advice, Saif shared, “So Rani was saying don’t think of it in a chauvinistic way. That’s not my idea of a relationship anyway. But she meant it really well. I was working a lot with Rani in those days and she loves Kareena. And it was good advice. She was trying to help me. Because maybe, in the start of it, I wasn’t as easy about sharing it.”
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When asked whether he was referring to stardom, Saif responded: “No, not just the stardom, but the idea that there are other equally important things than just us. And, I don’t know, maybe I was just being a bit jealous, kind of not sure how to react to, you know, working with other men and… this is all new, they are kind of emotions that you need to be able to maturely process well. And then of course you need a lot of trust and belief in each other. And when things are new, and if you’re a naturally slightly insecure person in a relationship, then it’s a little tricky to navigate. Because normally I’d gone out with girls who had nothing to do with (the movies) as such, all very different phases. So there was less sharing, in that sense. But it was wonderful to learn that and get over that and to develop, made us quite strong to kind of understand.” Saif went on to add how it once struck him that his ‘rivals’ would be Kareena’s ‘allies’. But his mind developed and over time he decided that if one day he became a producer, he could sign the ‘allies’.
Saif Ali Khan’s Work Front
On the professional front, Saif is set to star in Priyadarshan’s Haiwaan alongside Akshay Kumar, while Kareena is preparing for Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra.