It is impossible to use past tense while talking about Irrfan Khan: Mira Nair

Filmmaker Mira Nair on Sunday said it’s “virtually impossible” to speak about Irrfan Khan in past because the actor was alive for everything in life.

Irrfan, 54, died during a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday after a two year fight with a rare sort of cancer. He was buried at the Versova graveyard.

During the digital home-to-home fundraiser concert, ‘I For India’ which streamed on Facebook, Nair, who had helmed Irrfan’s debut “Salaam Bombay” and “The Namesake”, paid tribute to the actor.

“To speak of Irrfan Khan within the past is virtually impossible, because Irrfan was always alive. He was alive to life, whimsy, friendship, alive to the road child. Irrfan was one among the foremost beautiful listeners I even have ever known. He listened beautifully and harnessed it into his art,” she said.

The filmmaker said the simplest part about Irrfan was that in his work, there was never a repetition, “never something that you simply had seen before.”

“There was always this inimitable honesty and this twinkle, this knowing sense that he had seen through it. He was bringing it to you with nothing that covered the purity of the intent.

“I will miss you such a lot Irrfan but you’ve got left a unprecedented legacy of labor because you usually knew that you simply were special, that you simply had something that has got to be cherished, nourished and not fritted away. that is what you gave us, in each of your roles.”

Nair said with Irrfan’s death , all that she is going to anticipate to now’s everything and everybody who were influenced by him.

“You have left an ingenious group of extraordinary actors across the subcontinent, who looked to you, your flame remains in them. that’s my only sucker, as I keep getting into a world without Irrfan, during a cinema without Irrfan, but many thanks . There are not any words for what you’ve got given us,” she added.

Personalities from the sector of entertainment and sports came together for the digital concert to boost funds for the frontline workers, who are working around the clock to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

All the proceeds from the fundraiser concert, together with Facebook, will attend the India COVID Response Fund managed by GiveIndia, to support on-ground relief efforts
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