‘No need to be a womaniser’, says Saif Ali Khan

Spending big bucks doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be get a world-class product. Actor Saif Ali Khan says that he realised through a personal experience. The actor said that hiring a few technical hands from Hollywood doesn’t necessarily mean that the film-maker will be able to achieve even a fraction of what Hollywood masters produce on the silver screen.
“I realised this fact when I started working on Agent Vinod. I realised that every Hollywood expert comes with his or her entire set-up. There are crews, there are studios, then there are stunt directors and their assistants — it’s actually a huge set-up. If you want to get achieve what Bourne Identity did on screen, then you will have to hire the whole crew of the film. But just hiring the same stunt director doesn’t mean that you will get the same effect that you saw in the Hollywood film,” explained Khan
And that is the reason, Khan said is why he went ahead and hired tried and tested stunt directors and a team that has previously worked in big Bollywood films before because he felt that they knew exactly what the audience and the director is looking at.
“My stunts and actions are being handled by Peter Heines (he was the action director for the Aamir Khan-starrer hit film Ghajini). I also worked with him during Tashan and I was quite impressed with the way he works. I honestly think that he has got enough talent to make this film look good on the big screen,” said Khan.
Interestingly, Peter had trained in Hollywood films even before he made an entry in Bollywood.
Though his movie is rumoured to be a desi bond flick, Saif says that he won’t be a womaniser on screen and laughs when we ask him if his girlfriend, actor Kareena Kapoor had any role to play for the change in the protagonist’s character.
“The protagonist is an Indian guy and the action sequences will be sought of a Bourne Identity meets James Bond. But I am not portraying him to be a womaniser who woos every woman he sees. I don’t think he needs to be a womaniser. I believe that he has a job to complete at hand (in the film) and he is focussed on  just that,” Khan  concluded.