India, June 7 -- It's been over three decades in the Hindi film industry for Saif Ali Khan, and the actor has maintained his relevance throughout with his choices. Recently seen in the cop drama Kartavya, Saif Ali Khan has earlier admitted that he was not as good in his initial few films, but he got opportunities along the way to prove his worth. However, he asserts that things weren't as simple as they seemed.

"I survived because there was a massive patch where nobody wanted to do those movies that I was doing. It wasn't that I was getting the best films in the world repeatedly despite not being good. There was a strong downward movement but then there was luck," he says, adding that even the audiences were more forgiving then, compared...