i used to play cricket in pataudi we had a lovely childhood we learnt how to shoot game however i never had too many friends back there at times it got boring i had a friend the sweepers son mukesh he would imitate amitabh bachchan and i wanted to be more like him and mouth dialogues like apun garib admi hai the actor takes us back to the rustic countryside where he had spent most of his childhood his love for animals started developing around the same time he talks about the pet deer that was brought in a big cage when it was injured and later killed by wild dogs he remembers the african grey parrot that would sit beside their family telephone and imitate every caller and then he talks about elvis his current pet dog that eats everything up these days when we ask him to share a picture of elvis saif gets all excited i would love to see him in the papers but the actor says he does not want be a star i would rather be an actor says saif who self admittedly only had yeh dillagi to pull him through the 90s the turning point came with kal ho na ho and hum tum in khnh i was the parallel lead it was a big budget dharma film big money big hit seeing that aditya chopra asked me to do a solo film hum tum it became a hit finally saif had that one solo hit that every newspaper despite good reviews would always write about in the footnote he explains the other turning point in his career was eros international suggesting that he turn producer its a liberating feeling now even we can think up stuff and make a film says saif and thinks up a storyline sitting in the enclosed room full of journalists another round of coffee and the focus shifts back to agent vinod so was he making fun of vinod khanna in the film ones who have watched the promos closely inquire i had to explain the same thing to vinod khanna at a recent event he asked me the same thing no i do not make fun of him its a very funny scene where i start talking about amar akbar anthony thats how amitabh bachchan and vinod khanna get mentioned he explains the actor admits that he has not met mahendra sandhu the original 1977 agent vinod but i have seen the film i would be rather tacky to go now three days before the release to meet him and do a photo op the old and new agent vinod thinks the actor what would be tacky too is having a tag line to his film we thought of one no gadgets only guts says the actor here we all start laughing some of us in serious danger of falling off our benches saif however keeps a straight face and says thats why