Saif Ali Khan is back to playing a cop in his upcoming Netflix original Kartavyya , set to release on May 15. While audiences widely loved him as Sartaj Singh in Sacred Games, Saif recently revealed that there was a time when a director had advised him to never play a police officer on screen. Interestingly, the actor’s first time wearing a police uniform dates back to the 1994 film Main Khiladi Tu Anari — though he wasn’t actually playing a cop in the film. In a conversation with Dainik Jagran, Saif recalled the hilarious advice that stayed with him for years. Recalling his first experience wearing a police uniform, Saif said, “The first time I wore a police uniform was in the ’90s in a comedy film. I was playing an actor who had to portray a cop. So, he studies under Akshay Kumar, who was playing a cop in the film. It was a fun movie, which we copied from an American film without taking any rights.…