Riddhi
Saif Ali Khan‘s latest horror-comedy release, ‘Bhoot Police‘ on Disney+Hotstar is loved by the audience widely which also stars Arjun Kapoor.
While Saif plays the role of a ghostbuster in the movie and he opened up about his personal views on religion and the afterlife.
The actor describes himself as “agnostic”. As per Zoom, he says, “I am agnostic in real life. I am very secular in the sense that I think too much religion worries me because they put an emphasis on the afterlife. And not enough emphasis on this life. I find too much of religion to be an organization and too many problems — associated with basically my god, or your god or whose god is better.”
The actor says that he believes in a higher power but “what that power is, I have absolutely no idea,” he added.
“I pray and I try to focus my own energy on things. I’m more spiritual.”
“I am not about the afterlife… I have a very sad feeling that once you die, it’s just lights out. That’s the end, nothing more. I sometimes hope there is more. And I’m not hundred percent sure that there isn’t one. I fancy the older I get the less convinced I am, I think that’s a self-defense mechanism in the brain. I think the younger you are the more you can be like this. But certainly, I don’t get very carried away by the rules and regulations of religion,” he continued.
While talking about being a part of Bhoot Police, he says that choosing a role is mostly instinctive for him and what attracted him the most was its space, set up, and his look in the film.
“Something has to grab you that you would want to be part of the whole process. When you hear a story or when you read a script, you visualize the movie in a way and you think, ‘Is this what I wanted to do?’ This is one of the better scripts that I have read. There’s more depth to it than I think people would expect and it is a really interesting film,” says Saif.
“This film is on location, very dramatic, there’s a lot of things going on, and I remember being very, very tired, very often even though I enjoyed it every day, but it was tiring,” he concluded.
The movie Bhoot Police also stars Yami Gautam, Jacqueline Fernandez, and Jaaved Jafferi.
