Last Updated:October 04, 2025, 08:18 IST

Twinkle Khanna listened intently with her jaw dropped as Saif narrated the events of the night.

Saif Ali Khan had to undergo intense surgery.

Earlier this year, Saif Ali Khan was attacked by an assailant who barged into his Bandra house through his youngest son, Jeh’s, room during the wee hours of January 16. The actor was stabbed six times in an attempt to fight off the accused; two of these jabs were said to be serious as they were closer to his spine. Now, in a new promo for Kajol and Twinkle Khanna’s show, Saif recalled how Taimur reacted to the incident in the moment.

Saif Ali Khan said, “I had been stabbed in the leg, and there was blood everywhere. Taimur looked at me upstairs and said, ‘Are you going to die?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t think so.'” Kajol got up from her seat to give Saif Ali Khan a hug. She said, “You were a real hero.” Twinkle Khanna listened intently with her jaw dropped as Saif narrated the events of the night.

Previously, in a chat with the Delhi Times, Saif Ali Khan had recounted the incident in detail. He said, “Kareena had been out to dinner, and I had some work in the morning, so I stayed in. She came back, we had a chat and went to sleep. After a while, the house help rushed in and said, ‘There’s an intruder! There’s a guy in Jeh’s room with a knife asking for money!’”

The actor recalled, “It was around 2 am, I could get the time wrong slightly, but it was late…Obviously, I kind of lost it, and went in there to see, and I saw this guy holding (what I thought were) two sticks over Jeh’s bed – it was actually a hexa blade.”

He added, “So he had a knife in each hand and a mask on. It was a surreal scene. And something just kind of took over, and I just grabbed him. I ran and pulled him down, and then we were wrestling. He was thumping me as hard as he could in my back, and it was just thuds.”

Saif said he didn’t realise that the intruder had a knife with him. He said, “It didn’t really hurt because there’s too much adrenaline and shock at that moment. And then he was slashing at my neck, and I was blocking it with my hand. There were slashes to my palm, wrist, and arm. There was all this violence – slashing with both hands, most of which was kind of defended. And yeah, I fought with him, but I couldn’t handle it after a while because there were these two knives in action.”

“And I was just barefoot, bare-handed in a kurta pajama. I was just praying that someone could get this guy off me at this point. And my incredibly lovely house help (Geeta) pulled him off me and shoved him away. And we both kind of rolled away, and closed the door. And at this point I was covered in blood, and I lost some feeling in my right leg. This was because I had been nicked in the spine, but I didn’t realise that at the time – I thought I’d been stabbed in the leg,” Saif had said.

Saif Ali Khan had to undergo intense surgery as some stabs were close to his spine. He was rushed to the Lilawati Hospital, where a 2.5-inch piece of the blade was removed from his spine after a five-hour-long surgery. According to reports, Khan suffered a long cut on the right side of his neck, another cut on his right shoulder and a deep stab wound on the left side of his back. Additionally, he had a minor scrape on his left elbow.

Kashvi Raj Singh

Kashvi Raj Singh is a Sub Editor at News18. She extensively covers Bollywood, Hollywood and television. She not only keeps an eye out for interesting news angles but also often writes social commentary in long-…Read More

Kashvi Raj Singh is a Sub Editor at News18. She extensively covers Bollywood, Hollywood and television. She not only keeps an eye out for interesting news angles but also often writes social commentary in long-… Read More