Irfan Khan’s Life-Changing Person

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Irfan Khan and the wrong train car:

“My mother always used to say, and sometimes the wrong train takes you to the right place.”

This simple dialogue of Nawaz-ud-Din Siddiqui in the movie ‘The Lunch Box’ actually has a deep meaning. No matter how much man plans, he cannot be tied to coincidences, and sometimes they become the driving force behind our lives.

Like in the movie ‘The Lunch Box’, a typhoon accidentally reaches Irfan Khan, and it starts like this, a captivating story, which can be called one of the best movies in Bollywood.

Was He Really The Greatest?

Born in Jaipur in 1966, Irfan Khan caught the train correctly, but the box was wrong, and interestingly, it was through this box that he gained access not only to Bollywood, but also to international cinema, and to the world. Make your presence felt. Even when Shah Rukh Khan tweeted condolences on his death, he remembered him as the greatest actor of his era.

In a small town called Tonk, this eye-opening child first became interested in becoming an actor when someone said that his form resembled that of Mithan Chakraborty. Remember, in those days Mithan used to play the Dinka.

Who was that Person?

The heart of the stories when this young man came to the cinema, he was Naseeruddin Shah, which impressed him the most. However, unlike Mithan and Naseer-ud-Din Shah, he chose a different path, or perhaps that was the decision of destiny.

It was Irfan Khan who, a few decades later, created astonishing acceptance among commercial cinema audiences for films depicting the realities of life and largely bridged the gap between ‘superstars’ and ‘actors’.

He was a representative of those actors who were neither domineering like Salman Khan nor well-dressed like Aamir Khan but were eager to prove their mettle. Before Irfan Khan, these actors were limited to low budget standard films, or even if they appeared in commercial films, for a while. But Irfan’s art was so powerful that it won the hearts of the audience, and even the big banner film producers could not stop themselves from being attracted to him.

Irfan’s Film History:

While his film ‘Talwar’, which was made at the cost of Rs 150 million, would have been a hit with a business of Rs 300 million, on the other hand, ‘Peco’ and ‘Hindi Medium’ would have reached the ‘100 Crore Club’ with a magical leap. While Hindi Medium garnered international acclaim, it also shocked film pundits by causing a stir at the Chinese box office. Irfan Khan’s last film was a sequel to the same film, in the promotion of which we heard his cancer-fighting voice for the last time.

The story goes that with the access to Hollywood, the actor achieved success despite the presence of Khans in Bollywood, thanks to which serious actors got the status of ‘star’ for the first time, and his films. They bought tickets instead of laptops and started watching them on cinema screens.

Today when films of hardworking actors like Raj Kumar Rao and Ayush Mann, in which content is of special importance. She is easily becoming a part of the ‘100 Crore’ club, and behind it is Irfan Khan’s constant hard work and long struggle, but perhaps this hard work would have been in vain if he had not boarded the box office of commercial films.

This is the commercial cinema, under the shadow of which parallel or art cinema can flourish. In successful film industry, where Karan Johar and Raj Kumar Hirani are present, Vishal Bhardwaj and Anurag Kashyap have the opportunity to present their unique work to the audience. Irfan’s irreplaceable acting would hardly have been accepted if he had not played minor roles in ordinary commercial films, because his dreams were big, because he played these minor roles wholeheartedly, and Gradually, it reached the hearts of moviegoers and encouraged producers to invest Rs 10-15 crore on it.


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