SAIF'S ON PATERNITY LEAVE TILL MID-JAN

The actor, who’d been working on his new film, will resume shooting early next year

Actor Saif Ali Khan (right) will be on paternity leave till midJanuary after which he will resume the shooting of his next film. “Saif last shot for the film (a remake of Hollywood movie Chef) on December 12. He will resume the shoot by mid January,” confirmed the fim’s director Raja Krishna Menon.

According to Raja, only 20% of the shooting is remaining, which will be completed abroad. “I went on a recce to the US and Europe, we will zero in on the location soon for the last schedule,” said Menon.

Saif ’s wife, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, who gave birth to a boy on December 20, was discharged from Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Saturday.

The Bollywood star couple, who got married in 2012, have named their son Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi. Taimur is 36-year-old Kareena’s first child with Saif, who already has two children — daughter Sara (23) and son Ibrahim (16) — from his previous marriage to Amrita Singh.

The couple on Saturday posed with the baby for the shutterbugs at their residence in suburban Bandra.

Raja spoke to Saif after the birth of his son Taimur. “He is very happy and excited. I will try and visit the baby soon,” he said.

Saif ’s next release will be a film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon, slated to hit the screens in 2017.

I went on a recce to the US and Europe, we will zero in on the location soon for the last schedule RAJA KRISHNA MENON, FILMMAKER