'I've learned from Kareena' - Saif

Some excerpts from his latest interview:

"The first group that interested me was Deep Purple. I was going to a grown up school in England after prep school. One of my seniors was strumming a guitar," he says and started to hum the tune while subconsciously breaking into air guitar mode. "He said he was playing a song called Black Night. I fell in love with it immediately. I had obviously heard music before but this is when I fell in love with rock."

He tried his hand at vocals but his teacher discovered early on that Saif was probably "tone-deaf" or some variant of it. 😆 "It doesn't come naturally to me. I can't tune a guitar, at least some frequencies. Of the five strings of the guitar E-A-D-G-B, I'm fine with EADG. The tuning area for the B string is slightly different to the rest. I just can't tune that well. It's not like I can't hear it but I don't seem to hear it correctly. I can't make sense out of it," he says, bemused with his condition yet grately for electronic tuners.

"We went to a Begum Akhtar concert at the Pakistani embassy in Delhi once with my father, when I was about 12 years old. I was sitting behind him or on his bad side, he couldn't see me on his right. A lot of elders were going "Wah! Wah!" during the performance. So even I started doing that. I kept doing it until someone or probably my dad told me to shut up!" he guffaws. 😆

Thankfully for him, Kareena and he have grown to sharing some musical tastes. Saif plays the guitar for her sometimes though he admits to his tendency to play the same AC/DC songs and a few others all the time. "she says I should practice more. She likes it when I play the guitar. Once, early on in our relationship, she had asked me to turn down the music because she was talking to someone. Today she can't start her morning without jazz! She once told me that she learnt so much from me without having been consciously taught. I, in fact, feel the same with her."

A Zen-like calmness seeps into his face when he talks about her. He admits that at 43, he's experiencing a personal stability after years of trying to do many things. 😳

Say it properly, like my Bebola

And my Saifu actually failed at being desi. He tried to like ghazzals with his waahh waahhhs and his father told him to shut up 😆

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I'd always taken Bebo to be someone who'd start her day with Halkat Jawaani or something..She seems to have made a lot of changes to her lifestyle(something she did with Shahid too)..As long as they are happy