Saif Ali Khan’s ser Soha owns a 2 BHK ‘generator room’ in his Rs 1200 crore ancestral Pataudi Palace: ‘That is mine’ | Bollywood News

Actor Saif Ali Khan is the owner of Pataudi Palace, which he bought back with his own money after his father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi’s death, as it had been leased out to a hotel chain. However, his ser, actor Soha Ali Khan is in charge of the ‘generator room’ at the palace. It is a generator room that was converted into a 2 BHK apartment, where Sharmila Tagore and Tiger Pataudi used to reside when the hotel chain ran the palace as a luxury resort. It has now passed to Soha. She pays for its maintenance, even though the palace is owned her brother. In a recent interview, she opened up about her understanding of her Pataudi inheritance, as Saif currently owns a Rs 1200 crore mansion.
During a chat with Zoom, Soha was asked about growing up in a palace, and if she had any questions about Saif taking the responsibilities being the male heir. “The things that were relevant to my life were not crowns or thrones. It was just the things that I wanted to do, and never was I told that you want do this,” she replied.
Revealing how there was no gender bias in their family, she added, “Never was there expectation that the son will drink milk first and daughters will serve them food before eating themselves. I was never told to not play outside because you will become dark or that girls should behave like this, wear clothes like this. None of that.”
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The actor shared that her family has been progressive, despite coming from a conservative cultural background. “Even though my father was from an arocratic Muslim background, he was a forward thinker and very progressive. I think all of that helped me to just have that confidence, to believe that anything I wanted to do, was possible. That I should just work hard at it. There were no systemic barriers. There was nothing preventing me from thinking,” she said.
Soha Ali Khan continued, “I was aware of the law of primogeniture, I am aware of Muslim law. I am aware now that there’s a lot of things where you can circumvent that as well. You can leave a will and say that this is what I want to go to my children in equal.”
Speaking about being responsible for the generator room in the palace, she shared, “I have what was the generator room. But luckily, for a short period for time, there was a hotel that was managing the Pataudi palace. My parents moved into the generator room, converted it into what, I think, is actually a very nice property and now that’s mine.”