"My dear friend Irfaan. You fought and fought and fought. I will always be proud of you.. we shall meet again.. condolences to Sutapa and Babil.. you too fought, Sutapa you gave everything possible in this fight. Peace and Om shanti. Irfaan Khan salute. "
Born in 1967, though wanted to be a cricketer, he could not make it due to financial difficulties, took up acting classes in 1984, joined Television, slowly moved into Hindi films, side roles, and then became a lead actor, his first Bollywood lead role came in 2005 with film Rog; then there was no looking back. . Not only in Bollywood but joined the world film industry, acting in not just one but a fair number of good films. Was he in a hurry or was he trying to make up for the delayed recognition?
In February 1995, Khan married writer and fellow NSD graduate Sutapa Sikdar. They had two sons. In 2011 he received Padma Sri under the category of arts. In 2012, he changed his name from Irfan to Irrfan; he said he liked the sound of the extra r in his name. He later dropped Khan from his name because—according to a 2016 interview—he wanted his work to define him, not his lineage.
Wo aye the #PaanSinghTomar bankar jo behtar #Jazbaa k dhani th,
#MumbaiMeriJaan thi. #Haider dili s #Hassil kiya tha uncha mukam. Looks m wo #TheKiller the.
Jinke abhinay ke kya #HindiMedium, #EnglishMedium wale bh diwane the. Apni zindagi ke #LunchBox mai #ApnaAsmaan lekar chalte the.
No doubt he was #TheWarrior & became a #SlumDogMillionair of millions of #AMightyHeart who were #QaribQaribSingle in his love.
He lived a #Chocolate, #LifeInAMetro,
#MagarYeSaliZindigi, #Madari ki trh unk saath khrl r thi #Talvar Lliye humare #BilluBarber ko #BlackMail krri thi.
There was #NoBedOfRoses from past 2 years in the #Karwan of his life.
Ye kesa #Rog laga unko jo ab uko #Qissa bna gaya or #KamalKiMaut dekar hum sab ko #Puzzle kar gaya. Shayd uparwale ko bh wo #Maqbool the.
Par wo itni jld chale gaye k na unko #SalamBombay kah pai naa duniya unko #ThankYou
& this was the #LIFEOFPI
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#KRAZZY4 U
Indeed he was gone, when he had so much more to give!
An actor that every director wanted to work with. A human being that gave his best in every role. Indian film’s most succesful export to Hollywood. A man loved by all. Sad to see him leave us, after what we thought was successful fight against cancer.The official statement confirming Irrfan's death reads, "I trust, I have surrendered”; These were the some of the many words that Irrfan expressed in a heartfelt note he wrote in 2018 opening up about his fight with cancer. A man of few words and an actor of silent expressions with his deep eyes and his memorable actions on screen, Irrfan Khan passed away.
Goodbyes hurt the most when the story is not yet finished. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory no one can steal. Finding reasons in the death will never give us any answers. I look at his passing as a door to eternity and a beginning of new life for him.
He wrote a letter in 2018, which is his own obituary.
I reproduce excerpts from that;
“It’s been quite some time now since I have been diagnosed with a high-grade neuroendocrine cancer. This new name in my vocabulary, I got to know, was rare, and due to fewer study cases, and less information comparatively, the unpredictability of the treatment was more. I was part of a trial-and-error game.”
“I had been in a different game, I was travelling on a speedy train ride, had dreams, plans, aspirations, goals, was fully engaged in them. And suddenly someone taps on my shoulder and I turn to see. It’s the TC: “Your destination is about to come. Please get down.” I am confused: “No, no. My destination hasn’t come.” “No, this is it. This is how it is sometimes.
The suddenness made me realise how you are just a cork floating in the ocean with unpredictable currents! And you are desperately trying to control it.”
"In this chaos, shocked, afraid and in panic, while on one of the terrifying hospital visits, I blabber to my son, 'The only thing I expect from ME is not to face this crisis in this present state. I desperately need my feet. Fear and panic should not overrule me and make me miserable'.
“That was my intention. And then the pain hit. As if all this while, you were just getting to know pain, and now you know his nature and his intensity. Nothing was working; no consolation, no motivation.”
"As I was entering the hospital, drained, exhausted, listless, I hardly realised my hospital was on the opposite side of Lord’s, the stadium. The Mecca of my childhood dream. Amidst the pain, I saw a poster of a smiling Vivian Richards. Nothing happened, as if that world didn’t ever belong to me.
This hospital also had a coma ward right above me. Once, while standing on the balcony of my hospital room, the peculiarity jolted me. Between the game of life and the game of death, there is just a road. On one side, a hospital, on the other, a stadium. As if one isn’t part of anything which might claim certainty – neither the hospital, nor the stadium. That hit me hard.
I was left with this immense effect of the enormous power and intelligence of the cosmos. The peculiarity of MY hospital’s location – it HIT me. The only thing certain was the uncertainty. All I could do was to realise my strength and play my game better.”
“This realisation made me submit, surrender and trust, irrespective of the outcome, irrespective of where this takes me, eight months from now, or four months from now, or two years. The concerns took a back seat and started to fade and kind of went out of my mind space.
For the first time, I felt what 'freedom' truly means. It felt like an accomplishment. As if I was tasting life for the first time, the magical side of it. My confidence in the intelligence of the cosmos became absolute. I feel as if it has entered every cell of mine.
Time will tell if it stays, but that is how I feel as of now.”
“Throughout my journey, people have been wishing me well, praying for me, from all over the world. People I know, people I don’t even know. They were praying from different places, different time zones, and I feel all their prayers become ONE. One big force, like a force of current, which got inside me through the end of my spine and has germinated through the crown of my head.
It’s germinating – sometimes a bud, a leaf, a twig, a shoot. I keep relishing and looking at it. Each flower, each twig, each leaf which has come from the cumulative prayers, each fills me with wonder, happiness and curiousity. A realisation that the cork doesn’t need to control the current. That you are being gently rocked in the cradle of nature.”
Irrfan Khans letter. 2018.
He wrote his obituary himself. Says it all.
Though people spoke of or preferred one of the three Mega start Khan's and the large audience was divided among, the three; most had a common silent liking to this Khan who was less spoken with words, but more spoken with deeds.
Having acted in Bollywood, Hollywood, may be he was eager to act in Heavenwood.
Just a few days back, Irrfan's mother Saeeda Begum passed away and the actor was not able to attend her funeral due to the lockdown. Before Irrfan passed away, these were his last word... "Amma has come to take me." This and his fight is what prompted me to update this blog. Is it true that when you are about to die, you see your dead loved ones?
A brilliant actor, a fighter, a prolific contributor to the World of Cinema .. left us too soon .. creating a huge vacuum ..... You will be missed Irrfan Khan 🙏😔💕💐
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