Kareena calls Saif Iron Man for sons, says she's still coping with knife attack

India Today

30-06-2025

Though Saif Ali Khan's stabbing incident occurred months ago, it continues to linger in the minds of many. The incident had deeply affected the actor's family and loved ones. In a recent interview, his wife Kareena Kapoor opened up for the first time about the emotional and challenging period she went through following the attack.In a conversation with Barkha Dutt on Mojo Story, Kapoor referred to her husband Saif as an 'Iron Man' for their sons, Taimur and Jeh. She admitted that she's still grappling with the unsettling thought of someone having been in her child's room.advertisementThe actor pointed out that incidents like these are rare in Mumbai and confessed she hasn't fully come to terms with what happened.
'When you lose someone, you never really get over it. I don't want to live in that fear for my children because that's also wrong to put that stress on them. So it's been a tough journey to manoeuvre from fear and anxiety to balancing the fact that I am a mother and I am also a wife,' she said.Adding, the actor said, 'I am still kind of struggling with what it does to see someone there in your child's room. In Mumbai, you never really hear about such incidents I was very anxious for the first couple of months. It was very difficult to sleep and get back to the person with that kind of normalcy.'advertisementThe 'Refugee' also shared how her youngest son, Jeh, considers his father as a superhero. 'My little one still says, 'My father is Batman and Iron Man. He can take on anyone.' We are definitely stronger as a unit."Towards the end, Kapoor shared that the incident served as a stark reflection of the world's harsh realities for her children. They have seen blood and everything, but that trauma, I somehow feel, will make Taimur and Jeh a lot more of a different kind of man. They have also been so sheltered, and then, they have suddenly seen this. Somehow, I feel it's an experience that has brought them out of that shelter and a little more into reality that this can actually happen. Of course, they shouldn't have seen it. But I have to look at something out of it that's going to come, and I am just hoping that's what is going to come out of it,' she concluded.Saif was attacked on January 16, when an intruder entered Khan's 12th-floor Bandra flat and repeatedly stabbed him. The actor, 54, underwent emergency surgery at Lilavati Hospital to remove a knife fragment lodged near his spine. He was discharged five days later. Shehzad was arrested two days after the attack.- EndsTrending Reel