‘Important to experiment for longer, respectable career’
” Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan believes sticking to one’s comfort zone could be tempting, but it is important for an actor to experiment to have a longer and respectable career. Saif found his groove with 2001’s “Dil Chahta Hai”, a decade after being in the industry, and reinvented himself with “Omkara”.He has now become one of India’s first mainstream stars to venture into the digital space, with Netflix Original series “Sacred Games”.In an interview with DIN, Saif says, “If you’ve been successful at one type of thing, it could be tempting not to change that. But if you look at people who have slightly longer, wider and respected careers, they are the ones who have done different kinds of works.” The actor says the country has “quite a mature film industry”, where different types of movies are made and not only “commercial.” “There are people here who do different things, like Varun Dhawan doing ‘Badlapur’ which I saw recently. That’s an interesting choice. It adds to the respect I have for that actor which I assume is the same for everybody,” he says.The 47-year-old actor believes good work cannot be done in isolation.”Watching the work of others is a good way of knowing what’s happening around. The way to understand actors is to watch their work. Their work should speak for themselves,” he says.For now, the actor is geared up for “Sacred Games”. Set in modern-day Mumbai, the series revolves around a policeman and a criminal overlord.Saif plays Sartaj Singh, a seasoned and cynical Bombay Police officer, who is summoned by an anonymous tip that promises him an opportunity to capture the powerful Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), the criminal overlord of the G-Company.
