When little Saif Ali Khan bit the villain in Paap Aur Punya for hurting Shashi Kapoor : Bollywood News

“I don’t think I enjoyed working with any co-star as much as I did with Shashi Kapoor. His death has still not sunk in. Even as I’ve been busy with various things during the past few days, my mind has been going back to all the wonderful times I shared with Shashi. While I shared only a professional rapport with my other co-stars, with Shashi I also socialized. We did meet over dinner and drinks. And it was always a pleasure to meet Shashi and his really wonderful wife Jennifer Kendal. They complemented each other perfectly. Seeing Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer together was so gratifying. I don’t think Shashi ever got over her death. It broke him and turned him reckless about his life. He became suicidal. It was sad to see him let himself go. I still remember how handsome he was. My God! He was the most handsome man I had seen. When I met him for the first time, it was when he visited the location of my first Hindi film Kashmir Ki Kali. We were shooting the song ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’ with Shashi’s brother Shammi Kapoor. I couldn’t concentrate on my romantic poses with Shammi. The director Shakti Samanta had to ask Shashi to leave. The funny thing was, before I could confess I was a fan, Shashi started telling me he was fan of my work, having seen me in Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar. That charm completely won women over.

When little Saif Ali Khan bit the villain in Paap Aur Punya for hurting Shashi Kapoor

Over the years, we became close friends. We got a lot of opportunity to work and spend time together as most of our films were shot outside Mumbai over a lengthy period of time. I remember we were all together for My Love in Nairobi. Likewise my other films with Shashi Kapoor which were shot in places as far-flung as Rajasthan and Canada (Door Desh was shot in Canada). I remember we were shooting Paap Aur Punya in Rajasthan. Shashi’s children and my son Saif Ali Khan were all there. Saif, who very small, became very fond of his Shashi Uncle. In a sequence where Shashi Kapoor was being hung by a noose by the villain, Saif unknown to the camera and crew, toddled up to the villain and bit him for hurting his favourite Shashi Uncle. I guess Shashi Kapoor’s charms worked with the young and old alike.

We did a lot of films together, some of them like New Delhi Times, Aamne Samne and Aa Gale Lag Jaa were good, some really awful. Not too many of them worked at the box office. which is a pity. Because among all my co-stars it’s Shashi Kapoor I enjoyed working with the most.”