Laal Kaptaan: Saif Ali Khan Reveals What Was The Most Challenging Part About Essaying A Naga Sadhu

Saif Ali Khan was last seen in Sacred Games 2 and the audience was in awe of his performance. The actor can embody any character perfectly and his next offering – Laal Kaptaan – is a proof of it. Saif will be seen essaying the role of a Naga Sadhu in this film and people are quite excited to see what the film will look like.

Talking about his character and what challenges he has faced, Saif told Zoom that the toughest part of playing a Naga Sadhu in Laal Kaptaan was actually figuring the guy out. He said: “The most difficult part was figuring out ‘who this person is’. There is this monstrous-looking guy who has to do this thing. It’s like a Western, an Italian Western, done in an Indianised way, set in an extremely wild period.”

“The time when the East India company is taking over, the Mughal Empire is collapsing… so there were pockets of power and everybody was shifting, fighting… things were changing. Nobody was secure, everything was up in the air, kingdoms and princes were lost and made. Hired guns were riding out,” added Saif.

He further added, “So, if you got a guy like that, who is like, I think, part animal, he has to growl and, say lines, he has to deliver expressions, so to find the soul of the character.. to find what kind of guy, this is the hardest thing. I remember what the sound recordist told me. After a couple of days of shooting, he said that ‘you are not sounding like the guy’.”