Bollywood Star Kids

In its latest issue, People magazine carries an interesting piece about Saba Ali Khan's bond with Kareena Kapoor - She is designing jewellery for Kareena. And this is not the only work that will keep Saba busy. Not it's not Bollywood, but dad Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has quite a few plans in mind for her. Here's an excerpt: Between grooming herself as the probable trustee of her royal family's vast properties and honing her talent as a jewellery designer, Saba Ali Khan is a busy woman. But when her famous elder brother and Bollywood superstar Saif Ali Khan came to her with a request -- to design a sparkling, new piece for his ladylove Kareena Kapoor on her birthday -- Saba readily agreed to make time. And because it is for a 'special someone' in her brother's life, Saba's putting a lot of thought into it. "I would love to make her something. But the deadline is too soon. I will need time as it has to be a gorgeous piece," she confesses. T...

As she prepares to take on the mantle of managing her father Pataudi's property, Sudipta Basu feels that Saba Ali Khan was born for the job Every one knows that she exists, but given the celebrity that her siblings Saif and Soha Ali Khan enjoy, thanks to their Bollywood successes; Saba Ali Khan has never really been heard (given that Bollywood is teeming with star siblings ever ready to volunteer sound bytes on everything from hair pins to cat fights). Tiger Pataudi and Sharmila Tagore's quiet 32-year-old second born, a jewellery designer with a line simply titled Saba, is poised to get very busy soon. Her father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, currently the mutawalli or chief trustee of the Nawab's 250-crore ancestral property, reportedly is preparing to pass on the torch to Saba. "I am reading up a lot on history and all that is involved for taking up office. It is something that will come to me eventually, but for now my father is the mutawalli," says Saba, stating t...

On December 27, 1969, Mansoor married the noted film actress Sharmila Tagore, who is a distant relative (not a direct descendant, as often believed) of Rabindranath Tagore, the nobel laureate. They are the parents of three children: Saif, a bollywood actor; born in 1970 Soha, a bollywood actress; born in 1978 Saba, a jewellery designer; born in 1976