I Miss My Father Irrfan Khan Pens Babil Khan
Actor Babil Khan pens a heartfelt note, fondly remembering his father, late actor Irrfan Khan, longing to spend time with him.
Sharing a picture from a fishing trip, Babil Khan wrote, “Nobody knew him like I did, nobody has known me like he did. It’s easy to say, to miss him, it’s easy. It’s easy to be cathartic and cry about losing him. It’s easy. Do you know what is hard?”
“To remember the ecstasy in his voice when he would raise it in exaltation to scream “BABILUUUU!!!” every single time he’d see me. To remember then, how painful it would be to lose him for the stretches of barren time when he would be away shooting. It is impossible to bear the memory of how his beard felt on my fingers when I would scratch his cheek as he read his script or how my finger tips would rest gently on his eye lids when he took a nap. His voice, was brilliantly deep, yet it evoked nothing but a gentle prayer from me, a prayer that could only rise from one’s within when an external force has calmed your existential jitters to stillness.”
“I wish I could have one last dance with you. “And to tell you, that without your lessons, I never would have survived.” I will look for you. I will find you again. Somewhere. Beyond” added Babil.
Irrfan Khan passed away in 2020, due to neuroendocrine cancer. He was one of the most prolific actor Indian cinema has ever produced, who was not only respected in India, but across the globe.
