Babysitting Saif Ali Khan

One such reader is Nazir Patel, from Canada, who got a chance to babysit Saif Ali Khan way back in 1983. He shares his experience.

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I used to work in the accounting department of one of the largest travel companies at the time, known as P Lawson Travel. From my office, I could see the Westbury Hotel where popular Indian stars and singers used to be stay when in town.

Around that time, I met Saif and his parents, Nawab of Pataudi and Sharmila Tagore. I was 54 then.

I remember these two well dressed children in shorts standing beside them. One was perhaps Saif and the other one I cannot recall. I had met them at the hotel. The Nawab came across as a very polite and classy man while Sharmila was quite reserved.

We made small talk. I said hello to the children and they smiled. Thereafter all of them went shopping in the hotel. It was later that I got a chance to take a photograph with Sharmila, who even without makeup looked quite pretty.