Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan opens up about the stabbing incident with an armed intruder

Dubai: Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan recounted the terrifying night when an armed intruder broke into his Mumbai home, in an interview with Times Of India.

The incident occurred on January 16th around 2 a.m. when the family was asleep.

“Kareena had been out to dinner, and I had some work in the morning, so I stayed in. She came back, we had a chat, and went to sleep. After a while, the househelp rushed in and said – ‘There’s an intruder! There’s a guy in Jeh’s room with a knife asking for money!," he told the Indian daily.

Acting on instinct, Saif rushed to Jeh’s room and confronted the masked man wielding two knives.

“I saw this guy holding (what I thought were) two sticks over Jeh’s bed – it was actually a hexa blade. He had a knife in each hand and a mask on. It was a surreal scene. Something just kind of took over, and I 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, and it was just thuds,” Saif recalled.

Despite the life-threatening situation, Saif fought the intruder with bare hands.

“He was slashing at my neck, and I was blocking it with my hand. There were slashes to my palm, wrist, and arm. I was barefoot, bare-handed, in a kurta-pajama,” he described.

Kareena Kapoor Khan immediately removed their younger son Jeh from the room. “She had taken him out while this fight happened. I remember Kareena screaming, ‘Take the kid out!’ Jeh had woken up and seen some of it,” Saif said.

While the family regrouped upstairs, the intruder managed to escape the way he had entered – climbing up a drainpipe into the kids’ bathroom.

“We thought he was locked in, but he had gone the way he came,” Saif added.

Covered in blood, the actor was advised by Kareena to head to the hospital. Their older son Taimur insisted on accompanying him.

“Taimur asked me, ‘Are you going to die?’ I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m coming with you.’ I got a lot of comfort just from looking at him at that time,” Saif said.

Reflecting on the ordeal, Saif injected some humor into the terrifying memory. “If I had to enter that room again, I’d turn on the light and tell him, ‘Do you know who I am?’ Maybe he’d say, ‘Oh [expletive]! I’m in the wrong house.’”