Shoojit Sircar talks about he grew close to late Irrfan Khan during treatment journey-Read

Shoojit was speaking on the podcast Unfiltered By Samdish, where he spoke about his friendship with Irrfan Khan.

mumbai: Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar has reminisced about his friendship with late star Irrfan Khan and said that he misses the actor in every film that he does.

Shoojit was speaking on the podcast Unfiltered By Samdish, where he spoke about his friendship with Irrfan Khan.

“When Irrfan had it, because I had seen my father… Irrfan and I became much closer, when we got to know about his condition because during the treatment, we started speaking quite often. He would just call me for hours,” he recalled.

“Sometimes I don’t know what to talk to him, because you know, he’ll talk about spiritual world, magic world, all kinds, cinema, zindagi ko leke. I think he was also trying to understand ki mujhe chemo karna hai, ya should I go for an alternate therapy. You know, all he was thinking.”

The filmmaker said that if Irrfan Khan, who passed away in 2020 due to complications arising from a neuroendocrine tumour, had gone for the alternate therapy, he would have probably been alive a “little more.”

“And sometime I now realize, shayad Irrfan ko main agar bolta ki go for alternate therapy, not that I have nothing to do with that, that he did chemo and you know, normal, medical, maybe he would have been alive little more, because chala toh gaya wo do saal mein, jitna time diya tha doctor ne.”

“You know, because it was last stage almost that he was, so he tried really hard, but usko alternate bhi karna tha, because sometimes he himself was challenged in trance,” Shoojit said.

He recalled the time he did meditation with Irrfan.

“Then some days I would go home and sit with him, do some breathing exercise. Irrfan, today I sit with you and do some meditation? Bolte hain, do hain. So, it's very difficult in the industry, it's very difficult in the industry, the way Irrfan was.”

“His walk was different, there was a humanism at the base, which, that's why he was Irrfan, he still had that sparkle in his eyes, that smile, he used to call me. Whenever he would call me in the morning, I would feel that he will go again, he will come now, he will drink tea, he will eat where he is, and he will say, Dad, let's talk.”

Shoojit wants his friend to come back.

“Main toh bol raha hoon usko laa de wapas, usko leke aao, leke aao yaar, Irrfan should come back. Uske bina mushkil hai, survive karna. I mean this, very very difficult. What you want to do, what you want to converse, kisi ko samjhana, I think Irrfan was, I miss him in every film now, every film that I do,” he said.