Saif Ali Khan On Shah Rukh, Aamir And Salman Khan Being Bigger Stars

Saif Ali Khan also stated that Akshay Kumar completed him as an actor in many films in the Nineties

Saif Ali Khan occupied a spot on the list of trends on Tuesday after he opened up about having less stardom than his Kal Ho Naa Ho co-star Shah Rukh Khan, Dil Chahta Hai co-star Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, with whom he has worked in Hum Saath - Saath Hain, in an interview with Film Companion's Anupama Chopra. Saif Ali Khan, who has won the National Film Award for the Best Actor for his performance in the 2004 film Hum Tum, said that being less popular than Shah Rukh Khan, Salman and Aamir Khan somehow worked in his favour, as he went on to experiment with his characters and films. When asked if having relatively less stardom was a "good thing" for him as an actor, Saif Ali Khan said: "Yes, absolutely. I completely agree with that" and added: "I have to say these guys - Shah Rukh, Salman Khan and Aamir - were kind of born somehow to be actors. I think it must have been a childhood ambition. Certainly, I know it was for two of them. I don't know if it was Salman's ambition anyway but he was certainly built for it and made for the kind of success he saw. I joined movies at a time where you got to aim to either be a superstar or not bother. And there's a point there. It wasn't really about nuance, different kinds of characters...all that has happened now." In the interview, Saif Ali Khan also stated that, unlike Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir Khan, he needed someone to complete him as an actor in films and for him, it was Akshay Kumar. Saif and Akshay Kumar have co-starred in films like Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Keemat, Aarzoo, Tu Chor Main Sipahi and Yeh Dillagi, all of which fared well at the box office.