A return of Irrfan Khan with his wife Sutapa (courtesy sutapa.sikdar)
Strong points
- Without taking names, Sutapa Sikdar addressed himself to the “messiah of foreigners”
- “He didn’t waste his time chatting about people,” she said of Irrfan
- “He was not depressed either,” she added.
New Delhi:
Sutapa Sikdar, wife of late actor Irrfan Khan, in a lengthy Facebook post, shared his take on the insider-outsider debate that has rocked and agitated Bollywood in recent months. Sutapa Sikdar clarified that his post is in no way related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who died on June 14. Sutapa Sikdar began his post with this basic question: “Who is a foreigner?” and said that the line between so-called “insiders” and “outsiders” in the Hindi film industry is often blurred: “It’s gray all over the region”. Without taking any names, she addressed the “stranger messiah” and said, “Stop it! This theories inside and out only works in design journals.
In his second part of the article, Sutapa wrote that by following the commonly understood meaning of the term “foreigner,” Irrfan Khan could have been one too, just that he decided not to be categorized. “In that kind of crossword puzzle, Irrfan could also be an ‘alien.’ But he wasn’t, he chose to be. Which he was an objective witness to this jamboree called Bollywood.” Sutapa revealed that Irrfan hadn’t been invited to showbiz parties or made magazine headlines initially, but “he didn’t waste his time chatting about people or talking badly. was also not depressed. He chiseled his art and refused to be a part of it until he got the cover page and he did. “
“It’s a simple thing – no one owns Bollywood until or unless you think there are people who own this industry. Bollywood couldn’t do shit to make Irrfan get offers Hollywood, ”Sutapa Sikdar wrote in his post. Irrfan Khan was part of international projects like The namesake, Life of Pi, Inferno, Slumdog Millionaire, Inferno, Jurassic World, The Amazing Spider-Man and The warrior.
Irrfan Khan died on April 29 after a two-year battle with cancer. He leaves behind an impressive legacy studded with critically acclaimed gemss. There is no summary of Irrfan Khan’s accomplishments in a list, but his best films include The Lunchbox, Maqbool, Haider, Piku, the Warrior, Paan Singh Tomar, Talvar and Qissa.
