Saif Ali Khan, who sustained six stab wounds after he was attacked by an intruder last month in his Mumbai home, has now in a new interview detailed the events of the night of January 16 when the incident took place. The actor also clarified public conjectures and answered questions about how he was able to walk to the hospital, why there were no drivers to take him to a hospital that night, did his son Taimur accompany him and how he was strolling immediately after his treatment.
Saif said that around 2 am on the night of the attack his househelp rushed to tell him and his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan that there was an intruder in their youngest son Jehangir’s room, asking for money. “I kind of lost it, and went in there to see and I saw this guy holding (what I thought were) two sticks over Jeh’s bed – it was actually a hexa blade,” Saif told The Times of India.
“Something just kind of took over and I just grabbed him. I ran and pulled him down, and then we were wrestling. He was thumping me as hard as he could in my back,” he added.
Saif went on to describe how the tussle went on between him and the intruder. “There was all this violence – slashing with both hands, most of which was kind of defended. And yeah, I fought with him, but I couldn’t handle it after a while because there were these two knives in action… I was just praying that someone could get this guy off me at this point,” he said.
Later Saif said that he along with his househelp managed to lock the intruder in Jeh’s room. “Geeta (househelp) had held the door shut from outside – so we thought he was locked inside. But he escaped the way he came – though we didn’t know that. He had gone the way he came in – which was up a drainpipe into the kids’ bathroom,” he said.
“It was a filmi scene where I was covered in blood and we took two decorative swords off the wall. And that’s what Taimur saw – me covered in blood and Hari, the other house help, holding two swords. So, it was vaguely heroic, at least that moment,” he added.
He also confirmed that Taimur did accompany him to the hospital and spoke about how he thought his mother Sharmila Tagore would have been angry about that. “She was very supportive about Taimur being there. I thought she’d be more annoyed about that. But she said – ‘No, what you thought was right and you’ve exposed him in such a different way to so many things’ – that I mean he’s a different kind of kid,” he said.
Saif also commented on public conjecture as to why there were no drivers available to take him to the hospital. “Nobody stays here all night. Everyone has a home to go to. We have some people staying in the house, but not the drivers. Unless you are going out at night or there’s something needed, then you tell them to stay on,” he said.
The actor also spoke about people’s reactions stating that he was ‘acting’ and it was impossible of him to be walking after such an attack. “I think it is expected that there will be all kinds of reactions to something like this. There will be people ridiculing it. There will be people not believing it, people making fun of it. And I think that’s fine because it is what gives colour to the world. If everyone had a sympathetic reaction to something, it would be flat and dull. And I expected it, then there is no need to react to it,” he added.
