The Sameer Effect: How Dil Chahta Hai Rewired Saif Ali Khans Career

There's a particular kind of luck in Hindi cinema that has nothing to do with a hit song or a box office number. It's the luck of being cast right, of a director looking at an actor everyone thinks they've figured out and deciding to use him differently. Twenty-five years ago, Farhan Akhtar had that instinct about Saif Ali Khan. Saif, by his own admission, nearly talked himself out of it.By 2001, Saif had spent close to a decade being Bollywood's reliable second lead and baby-face hero. Pleasan