Irrfan will continue to be recognised for his numerous highly lauded performances in prestigious Hollywood blockbusters as well as award-winning Hindi flicks.
Irrfan spent time honing his English, as his wife Sutapa Sikdar has now revealed in a new book. She has stated that she was concerned Irrfan might grammatically slip up while speaking to a Hollywood composer during a dinner, but he didn’t. Irrfan: A Life in Movies, a new book, goes into greater detail about the actor’s illustrious career. Along with Jurassic World and Inferno, he appeared in the Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbusters Slumdog Millionaire and Life of Pi, each of which received four Oscars.
The late actor’s conversation with Hollywood composer
An excerpt stating Sutapa’s interviews is mentioned in the book. She spoke to PTI about the instance when Hans Zimmer had dinner with the actor during the shoot of Inferno. “He was conversing and I was getting nervous: abhi ye kuchh galat bolega hi bolega! (He will definitely say something wrong.) But it was amazing, the way he spoke of various things, and then he’s telling (me) in the car ki ‘Tu toh aise baithi hogi apni ungli pakad ke ki ye kab grammatical galti karega.’ (You must have been waiting, holding your breath, for me to make a grammatical mistake).”
Sutapa averred that Irrfan would have bagged an Oscar if…
Reminiscing what she told the actor about his roles, she added, “I used to always tell him, ‘Hollywood ki picture agar Hindi mein bolti na, ab tak tujhe Oscar mil gaya hota’ (If Hollywood movies were made in Hindi, you would have got an Oscar by now).”
Life with Irrfan
Irrfan passed away in April 2020 after battling a neuroendocrine malignancy for two years. Sutapa, his wife, and their sons Babil and Yuvaan Khan are his only survivors. Sutapa had written a lengthy statement on their “wondrous, beautiful, overwhelming, painful, and exciting journey” after his passing at the young age of 53. She penned down, “Ours was not a marriage, it was a union. I see my little family, in a boat, with both my sons Babil and Ayaan, paddling it forward, with Irrfan guiding them ‘wahan nahi, yahan se modo (don’t take a turn from there but from here)’ but since life is not cinema and there are no retakes.”
