Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan married actress Amrita Singh in October 1991, and their daughter Sara was born in 1993 and son Ibrahim in 2001. The couple separated in 2004. In the same year, he began dating model Rosa Catalano, but they separated after three years.

Saif was crowned the tenth Nawab of Pataudi in 2011.

He married actress Kareena Kapoor on October 16, 2012 after several years of courtship. Their high-profile relationship and subsequent marriage received much media attention. Their son Taimur was born on December 20, 2016.

Saif Ali Khan was born on August 16, 1970, in New Delhi, to actress Sharmila Tagore and her cricketer husband Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who was a former captain of the Indian cricket team. He has two younger sisters—Saba and Soha, the latter being an actress, too.

He attended The Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh, India, for a few years, before he was sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire, the UK, at the age of nine.

After he graduated from Winchester College, the UK, he returned to India. Soon he got an offer to model for Gwalior Suiting’s advertisement, which brought him to the limelight. He was also cast in a film, which did not see the light of the day, but definitely instilled the idea in his mind to pursue a career in films.

Although Saif Ali Khan was excited to relocate to Mumbai and start his career in the film industry, he was initially termed as “arrogant” and “unprofessional” by his directors. In 1991, he was cast as the lead in ‘Bekhudi’, but soon he was replaced by another actor due to his “unprofessionalism”.

In 1993, director Yash Chopra cast him in ‘Parampara’, but unfortunately the film failed at the box office. His next two films—‘Aashiq Awara’ and ‘Pehchaan’, both in 1993, also proved to be unsuccessful.

In 1994, with ‘Yeh Dillagi’ and ‘Main Khiladi Tu Anari’, Saif hit the bull’s eye, and was recognized by the industry and the media as a commercially successful actor.

In the next four years, all his 11 films were critically and commercially unsuccessful. By the end of the 1990s, his career had been almost ruined with these flop projects, and the industry and critics almost wrote him off as an actor.

The year 1999, however, proved to be a successful year for him, when his career prospects began to improve. While ‘Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan’ and ‘Aarzoo’ earned a little success, ‘Kachche Dhaage’ was his first major commercial success after ‘Main Khiladi…’ The year closed with ‘Hum Saath-Saath Hain’, which proved to be his "morale-booster".

Saif Ali Khan’s performance in ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ was praised as "excellent" and was hailed to be his best performance till then. In ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’, he was described as "natural" and "extremely endearing".

While critics believed that his negative role in ‘Ek Hasina Thi’ was "an accomplished performance", his strong acting skill in the film ‘Being Cyrus’ surprised critics, who applauded him for being a “matured actor”.