Saif to make a film on father’s life
Pataudi Jr isn’t planning on playing the role himself.
Saif Ali Khan says it is not easy to encapsulate your feelings for someone everyone looks up to, into two hours. PHOTO: FILE
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is now planning on strengthening his production abilities by trying his hands on making a movie about his father, cricket player Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, reported the Times of India.
Saif, who is the son of Pataudi and actor Sharmila Tagore, admitted when questioned that he wasn’t planning on playing the role himself. “I’m too old. Maybe I could play the older him and try an Italian actor for the younger one.” That being said, the actual date of production is still tentative, but Saif considers it a done deal, sometime in the future. “Not right away, but maybe someday,” said the actor.
There is a great deal of history to cover in the life of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who was not only a former captain of the Indian cricket team but also the titular Nawab of Pataudi from 1952 until 1971. Saif plans on covering his life in detail in the movie. “It’ll be an English film. Not Hollywood, but filmed as much in England as in India and set in the’60s when my father was in his 20s,” revealed Saif.
While admitting that making a movie on his father had been tried in other formats before, Saif seems positive about this new venture. “It is a story of a prince who loses his father on his 11th birthday, loses his title in 1971, loses an eye just when his cricketing career is blossoming in England, yet goes on to become the youngest Indian Test captain and marries a Bollywood heartthrob. Given the drama and history, the journey from black-and white to colour, it can be a film like Chariots of Fire. Earlier, we had tried the documentary format, but it is not easy to encapsulate your feelings for someone everyone looks up to, into two hours,” concluded Saif.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2014.
Saif, who is the son of Pataudi and actor Sharmila Tagore, admitted when questioned that he wasn’t planning on playing the role himself. “I’m too old. Maybe I could play the older him and try an Italian actor for the younger one.” That being said, the actual date of production is still tentative, but Saif considers it a done deal, sometime in the future. “Not right away, but maybe someday,” said the actor.
There is a great deal of history to cover in the life of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who was not only a former captain of the Indian cricket team but also the titular Nawab of Pataudi from 1952 until 1971. Saif plans on covering his life in detail in the movie. “It’ll be an English film. Not Hollywood, but filmed as much in England as in India and set in the’60s when my father was in his 20s,” revealed Saif.
While admitting that making a movie on his father had been tried in other formats before, Saif seems positive about this new venture. “It is a story of a prince who loses his father on his 11th birthday, loses his title in 1971, loses an eye just when his cricketing career is blossoming in England, yet goes on to become the youngest Indian Test captain and marries a Bollywood heartthrob. Given the drama and history, the journey from black-and white to colour, it can be a film like Chariots of Fire. Earlier, we had tried the documentary format, but it is not easy to encapsulate your feelings for someone everyone looks up to, into two hours,” concluded Saif.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2014.