The disruptor

What emerges from these interviews are some remarkable stories, some by people who knew him intimately and others who only worked with him

Irrfan: A Life in Movies

Author: Shubhra Gupta

Publisher: Pan Macmillan India

Pages:  397 (Hardbound)   
Price: Rs 899

When Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan succumbed to neuroendocrine cancer on April 29, 2020, the outpouring of grief on social media provided a hint to his enormous fan base. Such popularity is often the monopoly of leading mainstream stars and not of one such as Irrfan, whose career has mostly been in off-beat and small-budget cinema.
 

Irrfan’s breakout role was the smouldering Maqbool in Vishal Bharadwaj’s adaptation of Macbeth in 2004. He had done small parts before and had grabbed eyeballs as a negative