India, Jan. 22 -- Actor Saif Ali Khan is the owner of the Pataudi Palace, his ancestral home in Haryana. The actor once said that while he should have inherited the property, he actually had to earn it back with money that he got after doing films. In 2019, Saif had said in an interview with Mid-Day that though he had a privileged upbringing, 'there was no inheritance'.

Saif had said, "People have a certain fixed notion. For that matter, even [with] Pataudi [palace], when my father died, it got rented to Neemrana Hotels. Aman [Nath] and Francis [Wacziarg] used to run [the hotel]. Francis passed away. He'd said that if I wanted (the palace) back, I could let him know. I said: 'I want it back'. They held a conference, and said, 'Okay, you ...