Sara Ali Khan's strange encounter with Taimur Ali Khan-doll leaves Sharmila Tagore alarmed

A toy store in Kerala recently launched a new doll in the market. It's called 'Taimur' and is modelled on Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan's baby boy Taimur Ali Khan. While the nation is intrigued by the similarity between the doll and Taimur, his family is bemused by the kind of attention the little one is getting. 

Recently, when Sara Ali Khan visited the sets of 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' to promote her debut film, 'Kedarnath', she was presented with a 'Taimur' doll. Sara instantly hugged it and kept it with her throughout the show. However, a source close to Sara later revealed to a leading daily that she was quite "startled" when she was given the doll. It all became a little too awkward after a certain point of time as they handed out milk bottles to her and asked her to feed her brother. 

Recalling the incident, Sara told TimesNow in a recent interview, "So, we were on this reality show called Sa Re Ga Ma and they gave me this doll. I think they realised that in front of Amit sir (Amit Trivedi) and Sushant (Singh Rajput) they shouldn't do this because they'll turn around and say this, 'It's a bit awkward.' But, 'Sara is Sara and she'll take it so, let's just do it'. And they have given me this doll and said, 'doodh pilaao bachche ko' and this that and the other and I was like, 'What's going on!' I was like, 'There is this lookalike of my baby brother in my hands and there are these bottles of doodh' and it was just...it was insane. Sushant and Amit sir were there and suddenly they weren't and there was the baby and I was like, 'Okay, then...' So, yes that was that."

"The family is still trying to come to terms with Taimur's overwhelming popularity," and insider told the daily. Sharmila Tagore is apparently alarmed by the frenzy surrounding her grandson. "Saif was summoned by his mom to discuss the issue. Normally, Sharmilaji is the most non-interfering mother you will find. But now with two-year-old Taimur being constantly in the limelight, she feels some measures must be taken to provide the child a normal life," the source added.

Saif and Kareena, meanwhile, seem to have come to terms with his son's popularity. Earlier when asked to comment on the doll, Kareena had said that Saif feels that it is people's way of blessing Taimur. There is so much genuine warmth for their son that they think that it's bad to stop people from clicking his pictures or for that matter even stopping them from making dolls.