When Sharmila Tagore Texted Irrfan Khan 'Thank Your Parents For Giving You Birth' After Watching The Namesake

Irrfan Khan’s death has come as quite a shocker to the film industry this morning as cinema mourns the loss of one of its finest. Irrfan succumbed to his disease after a two year long fight with Nuroendocrine cancer and died in Mumbai’s Kokilaben Hospital due to a colon infection. The actor was 53.

The actor has a filmography that boasts of quintessential Bollywood entertainers to national awards winning performance to even academy award winning films. The actor contributed all that this whole spectrum with such ease that reminds us that there will never be another like him. One of his most acclaimed performances was Mira Nair’s The Namesake which earned the actor accolades worldwide when it released in 2006.

The film had prompted Sharmila Tagore, the veteran actress Khan much admired for her body of work, to text him saying ‘Thank your parents for giving you birth.’ Irrfan played a professor in the film who migrates to The U.S. and faces challenges bringing up his first generation immigrant son in the country.

Sharmila Tagore’s compliment certainly sums up his profound impact as an actor and it would continue to live on through his body of work.

 Ironically Irrfan had lost his mother Saeeda Begum just a few days ago who died in Jaipur at the age of 95. Unable to be physically present for her funeral Irrfan due to the lockdown, Irrfan had been present via video conferencing for the proceedings.

On April 29, Irrfan died a day after reports surfaced that he is in the ICU which were later confirmed by his spokes person.