Managed profile Not claimed by Irrfan Khan

Irrfan Khan has not joined FLAPSS and has not endorsed it. This page is a reference record assembled from published interviews and public remarks. Every answer below is a direct quotation with the source and date shown next to it.

Irrfan Khan

Actor

India · 1967–2020

Arts and letters

About

Indian actor whose thirty-year career ran across Hindi, British and American cinema, from Maqbool and The Lunchbox to Life of Pi and Slumdog Millionaire. Awarded the Padma Shri in 2011. Diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour in March 2018 and treated in London; he died in Mumbai in April 2020.

reference

1 answer

Question If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? Death & what remains read 53 other answers →

No, I’m completely out of reading scripts. This has become a surreal experience. My days are unpredictable. I used to think my life would be like that, but I could never practice unpredictability and spontaneity. That has happened now. I don’t plan. I go for breakfast and then I don’t have a plan. I take things as they come. That has been really helping me a lot. I don’t make plans. I’m just spontaneous. And I’m loving this experience. There was something missing in my life. I was feeling a little manipulated by myself, by my own mind. There was a kind of disharmony in myself. It was bothering me. And I think this is what I was missing, this spontaneity. I know because we live in a world that is packed with plans, it sounds unrealistic. How could you live your life like that? But life is so mysterious and has so much to offer, we don’t really try things. And I’m trying and I’m loving it. I’m in a really fortunate state.

Recorded Lindsey Bahr, Telephone interview from hospital in London, The Associated Press, 1 August 2018 source ↗

Every quotation above is reproduced from the source shown beside it and has not been edited. Irrfan Khan did not write these answers for FLAPSS. Request a correction or removal.