Sharmila Tagore recalled an anecdote from son Saif Ali Khan's childhood. (Photo: Saba Pataudi/Instagram)
Sharmila Tagore was actively working as an actor when her children were growing up and in a recent interview, she recalled how she was a “constant visitor” to son Saif Ali Khan’s school as he would often get in trouble. She shared that it wasn’t just him, he would get in trouble along with Ness Wadia, son of Nusli Wadia and Maureen Wadia, but Saif was more apologetic than Ness.
Soha Ali Khan was talking to her mother Sharmila on her YouTube channel where she remembered that her mother enjoyed coming to PTA meetings. Saif’s daughter Sara Ali Khan was also present here and she immediately interrupted saying, “Not Abba’s PTA meetings,” as they all broke into laughter. Sharmila recalled, “Me and Maureen Wadia were constant visitors.”
She did not elaborate on the kind of mischief they got into and said, “Ness Wadia, of course, went one step further. He would say, ‘I am the trustee’s son, you can’t do anything to me’. And Saif was a little more head bent and more apologetic.” When asked if Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi also attended these PTA meetings, Sharmila said, “I went. Abba never went.”
In an earlier chat at a Mother’s Day event for YFLO, she recalled that she was very busy for the first six years of Saif’s life and made a “few mistakes.” “When I had Saif, I was very busy. I was working two shifts a day and for the first six years of his life, I was really absent. I did whatever I had to do/I went for the parent teachers meeting, attended his plays but I don’t think I was a full-time mom. My husband was there, but I wasn’t. Then when I became a mother, I became an overzealous mother. I wanted to feed him, bathe him and everything. That was the other side of the pendulum. I made a few mistakes, honestly,” she said.
Soha has also previously spoken about how her mother was the breadwinner of the household, and her father was largely a stay-at-home dad. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was a cricketer and belonged to the royal family of Pataudi.