Bad news for Irrfan Khan fans

People who love Punjabi and Hindi films are shocked by the death of Irrfan Khan. Irrfan's mother Saida Begum passed away on Saturday, April 25. Everyone was in mourning. Irrfan's mother was 95 years old and she breathed her last in Jaipur. Where she lived However, due to the lockout, Irrfan could not reach his mother for burial.Yesterday Irrfan's condition was very serious and he was admitted to ICU due to difficulty in breathing.Irrfan has been suffering from a neurocrine tumor for the last two years. Irrfan said that one should remain positive in such a situation. "Wait for me," he said.Before the release of the trailer of the film English Medium, Irrfan released an audio in which he said that he had some unwanted guests in his body with whom he was having a 'conversation'.

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Irrfan Khan was born in Rajsthan 7 jan 1967 into a Muslim family of Pathan ancestry Khan's mother, Saeeda Begum Khan was from jodhpur, and his father, Yaseen Ali Khan, was from the Khajuriya village in Rajasthan's Tonk District, and they ran a tyre business.He spent his childhood in Tonk, and then Jaipur. Irrfan was good at cricket and was selected to play in the CK Nayudu Trophy for emerging players in the under-23 category, a tournament seen as a stepping stone to first class cricket in India. However, he did not attend as he could not afford travel expenses.He showed interest in acting under the influence of his maternal uncle who himself was a theatre artist in Jodhpur.In Jaipur, Khan was introduced to noted theatre artists and did several stage performances in the city. Khan completed his MA in Jaipur before joining the (NSD) in New Delhi in 1984 to study acting.In his early days in Mumbai, he took up a job as an air conditioner repairman and visited the home of his acting inspiration,Rajesh Khanna Rajesh Khanna in 1984. Later in an interview Irfan stated, "The kind of craze witnessed by Rajesh Khanna has not been duplicated by anyone. He was the biggest and the most real star Bollywood has produced. I'd say stardom is that feeling of being possessed by your idol; you are so overwhelmed with euphoria you lose touch with reality.

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Khan was offered a minor role in mira nair's salaam bombay.soon after his graduation from NSD in 1987; his scenes did not make it to the final cut. He played lenin in a teleplay on doordarshan  titled Laal Ghaas Par Neele Ghode, based on a translation by uday parkash  of a Russian play by Mikhail Shatrov.He was then cast as a psycho killer, the main antagonist of the show, in the serial Darr. He also played the famous revolutionary, Urdu poet and Marxist political activist of India, Makhdoom mohiuddin, in kahkashan, produced by ali sardar jafari.He acted in some of the episodes of star bestsellers  (aired on Star-Plus). He also appeared in two episodes of the set india serial Bhanvar. He acted in numerous television serials throughout the 1990s, including Chanakya, bharat ek khoj, Sara Jahan Hamara,banegi apnibaat,chandarkanta,shirikant,AnooGoonj on Doordarshan, Star Bestsellers Star plus, Sparsh and The great maratha on DD National.He featured opposite Roopa Ganguly   in basu chatterjee's critically acclaimed drama film kamla ki maut (1989). In the 1990s, he appeared in the critically acclaimed films Ek doctor ki maut (1990) ,and such a long journey(1998), as well as various other films, which went unnoticed.In 1998, he played valmiki in Sanjay Khan's serial Jai hanuman.

While Irrfan has acted in dozens of Bollywood films, he has also tried his hand in Hollywood films.It is to be mentioned that Irrfan Khan has won the hearts of the people with his acting and style. Irrfan Khan was an actor who probably didn't care what the character was like. Whatever the character, they didn't play him to the fullest. Not only his acting but also his dialogues were imprinted in the hearts and minds of the people in the film. Irrfan Khan is one of the actors who has played every role. It is the result of Irrfan Khan's hard work that he hoisted the flag not only in the country but also abroad. Irrfan Khan struggled a lot in the early stages of his career. Irrfan Khan has not got these names and fame easily.Asif Kaadia cast him as the lead in the warriors , a historical film completed in 11 weeks on location in himachal pardesh   and rajashthan In 2001, The Warrior opened at international film festivals.Between 2003 and 2004, he acted in ashwin kumar's short film, Road to Ladakh; the film received rave reviews at international festivals.That same year, he played the title role in the critically acclaimed maqbool, an adaptation of Shakespeares macbeth.His first Bollywood  lead role came in 2005 with Rog. His performance was praised by critics; one wrote, "Irfaan's eyes speak louder than his words and every time he is in frame, be it talking to his buddy Manish or arguing with Suhel, he shows his capability as an actor".Thereafter, he appeared in several films either playing the leading role or a supporting role as a villain. In 2004, he won the Filmfare best villian award  for his role in haasil.He also played an antagonist  in the Telugu film sainikudu.In 2007, he appeared in the box office hits the namesake  and life in a metro.His chemistry with konkana sen was one of the highlights of the latter; it also won him the filmfare best supporting actor award.These roles were closely followed by his appearances in the international films, A mighty heart and the darjeeling limited.Despite his success in Bollywood, he continued to work on television. He anchored mano ya na mano and hosted kayaa kahein.


Khan played a police inspector in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he and the cast of the movie won Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. About him, Danny Boyle said, "he has an instinctive way of finding the 'moral center' of any character, so that in Slumdog, we believe the policeman might actually conclude that Jamal is innocent." Boyle compared him to an athlete who can execute the same move perfectly over and over. "It's beautiful to watch.In 2009, he featured in the film Acid Factory. He appeared as an FBI agent in New York (2009),and opposite Natalie Portman as a Gujarati diamond merchant in the Mira Nair directed segment of the 12 part feature New York, I Love You.In 2010, he worked on the third season of the HBO series In Treatment, enacting the part of Sunil, who is finding it difficult to come to terms with his wife's death and loneliness after moving to the New York City borough of Brooklyn.Khan played Dr. Rajit Ratha in The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012. He played the adult version of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel in Ang Lee's film adaptation of Life of Pi, which became a critical and commercial success worldwide. His lead role in Paan Singh Tomar (2012), as the eponymous real-life athlete turned dacoit, won him the National Film Award for Best Actor. In 2013, he starred in The Lunchbox, which won the Grand Rail d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and received a BAFTA nomination, and became his highest-grossing Hindi film to date.In 2014, Khan appeared in Gunday, which was a moderate box office success. He also made guest appearances in the films The Xpose and Haider, playing an important role in the latter. In 2015, he played the lead role in the film Piku alongside Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. Khan co-starred in the 2015 film Jurassic World. In the same year, he also appeared in the acclaimed thriller Talvar in which his performance was praised. He appeared in Jazbaa in October 2015 alongside Aishwarya Rai which was very well received by critics. He was next seen alongside Tom Hanks in the 2016 adaptation of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon thriller Inferno.That same year, he also starred in Madaari, a 2016 Indian social thriller film directed by Nishikant Kamat.In 2017, Khan appeared in two films, Hindi Medium and Qarib Qarib Singlle. The former was commercially and critically successful, while the latter was an average grosser. Khan's portrayal as Raj Batra in Hindi Medium earned him several accolades, one of which was the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Hindi Medium became a sleeper hit in India and China, becoming his highest-grossing Hindi release, surpassing The Lunchbox. He also starred in No Bed of Roses (2017). As of 2017, his films had grossed US$3.643 billion at the worldwide box office.In 2018, Khan appeared in Karwan, with Dulquer Salmaan, Mithila Palkar and Kriti Kharbanda. He also appeared in Blackmail opposite Kirti Kulhari, the same year.Khan's final film appearance was in Angrezi Medium, directed by Homi Adajania, which was released on 13 March 2020.

"My father was a hunter and he used to hunt at that time," Irfan said in an interview. We used to go hunting in the forest together. We loved the forest. But when the animals died, I felt bad. I wondered what would happen to the son of the hunted animal. What will happen to his mother? It all came to mind, once my father fired a gun at me and an animal died and his death had a profound effect on me. My father used to tell me that a Brahmin was born in the house of a Pathan.It may be recalled that Doordarshan has decided to re-air its show Srikkanth on TV after paying homage to Irrfan Khan after his death. It will be aired daily on the channel at 3.30 pm. It is known that the serial Srikant Sarat Chandra Chatterjee is based on the novel Srikant. The show aired on Doordarshan from 1985 to 1986. It was directed by Praveen Niskol.Hollywood was also obsessed with Irrfan Khan's acting.Irrfan Khan also acted in the hollywood film Jurassic Park.His film English medium was released on March 13. The film was well received but was shut down in India due to a non-communicable disease like corona virus. Despite his serious illness, he never gave up and believed in being happy.May God grant peace to this virtuous soul.

Husanpreet Singh