Video by Саиф Али Кхан/Saif Ali Khan

Our December cover star, Saif Ali Khan completes 30 years in the industry next year. Looking back at his evolution, the actor says: “Yeh Dillagi was great, Main Khiladi Tu Anari was fun, then there was Kachche Dhaage but those were few and far between. There were also a lot of bad movies that I did during that phase. But the problem was that at that point I took up stuff that I thought was cool and fun. At one point there was a patch where it became like any other job and I was not enjoying it as much. But I always wanted to be a successful actor, although I wasn’t being fairly responsible at it, I did keep trying. So, I guess something eventually came out of it. It happened after the ’90s, when I did Parineeta or Omkara, I was quite serious about my acting. I am grateful that people kept giving me opportunities, not that those were always great ones; I have played third and even fourth leads in movies.”