India, Sept. 26 -- Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan recently opened up about the violent knife attack that took place in his Mumbai home earlier this year, an incident that nearly cost him his life and unfolded in front of his young sons, Taimur and Jeh.

In a candid interview with Esquire India, Saif recounted the harrowing night when an intruder broke into his residence past midnight on January 16.

"There's this crazy sense of how lucky one is because (the knife attack) was damn close. And to walk away relatively unscathed is nothing short of miraculous," he shared.

The actor, wounded and on the floor, described a surreal moment as time seemed to slow down. "It could have been the adrenaline, but I remember thinking life has been colourf...