‘Lifetime of Pi’ Star Irrfan Khan Dies at 53



Irrfan Khan, a Bollywood icon who starred in Hollywood motion pictures together with Slumdog Millionaire and Lifetime of Pi, died on Wednesday, April 29. He was 53.


“‘It’s saddening that at the present time, we have now to deliver ahead the information of him passing away,” Khan’s public relations company, Hardly Nameless Communications, stated in a press release to Us Weekly. “Irrfan was a robust soul, somebody who fought until the very finish and all the time impressed everybody who got here near him. … Surrounded by his love, his household for whom he most cared about, he left for heaven abode, abandoning really a legacy of his personal. All of us pray and hope that he's at peace. And to resonate and half together with his phrases he had stated, ‘As if I used to be tasting life for the primary time, the magical aspect of it.’”


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Irrfan Khan attends the Sundance Movie Competition in Park Metropolis, Utah, on January 23, 2018. George Frey/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The actor was buried on the Versova kabrastan in Mumbai, India, afterward Wednesday.


“In presence had been his household, shut family and associates. Everybody paid their remaining respects and mourned the lack of his passing away,” the assertion continued. “We pray for his peace and we hope he’s in a greater place at the moment. He was sturdy in his battle, and all of us need to be sturdy too on this loss.”


The information got here two years after Khan introduced that he was identified with a uncommon type of most cancers. Earlier this week, he had been admitted to the ICU at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital as a consequence of a colon an infection, in response to his PR company.


His mom, Saeeda Begum, died on Saturday, April 25, however he was unable to attend her final rites because of the ongoing lockdown that was put in place of their dwelling nation amid the coronavirus pandemic.


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Irrfan Khan in ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ Celador Movies/Pathe Worldwide/Kobal/Shutterstock

Khan’s profession spanned greater than three a long time, starting with a number of TV dramas within the mid-1980s. He made his movie debut in Salaam Bombay! in 1988.


After years of taking part in supporting roles, the Jaipur, India, native began taking over lead elements within the early 2000s. His breakthrough got here with Haasil in 2003, adopted by Life in a… Metro in 2007 and The Lunchbox in 2013.


He turned a global star after taking part in a police inspector within the 2008 crime drama Slumdog Millionaire, which received eight Academy Awards. 4 years later, he starred in one other Oscar-winning film, Lifetime of Pi.


Khan’s different American credit included The Wonderful Spider-Man in 2012, Jurassic World in 2015 and Inferno in 2016.


He's survived by his spouse, Sutapa Devendra Sikdar, and their sons, Babil and Ayan.






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