It has been one hell of a week for Bollywood with not just one, but death of two amazing actors from the fraternity. Actor Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday, last week, followed by the death of veteran actor Rishi Kapoor on Thursday. Irrfan's younger son Ayaan shared an Instagram post of his father, who died after a long battle with neuroendocrine tumour.
Sharing two pictures of himself with Irrfan, one as a child and the other as a young man, Ayaan captioned the photo, “The flesh we roam this earth in is a blessing, not a promise...” The first picture shows Ayaan riding a bike with his father, while the second one shows them walking on a street.
Ayaan also shared a statement on behalf of the family, especially his mother Sutapa Sikdar. The statement read, “How can I write this as a family statement when the whole world is taking it as a personal loss? How can I begin to feel alone when millions are grieving with us at the moment? I want to assure everyone that this is not a loss, it is a gain. It’s a gain of the things he taught us, and now we shall finally begin to truly implement it and evolve. Yet I want to try to fill in the things that people don’t already know.”
She continued, “I asked my children, if possible, they could sum up a lesson taught by their father that has been important to them; Babil: ‘Learn to surrender to the dance of uncertainty and trust your faith in the universe.’ Ayaan: ‘Learn to control your mind and to not let it control you.’”
Sutapa called her life with Irrfan as a “wondrous, beautiful, overwhelming, painful and exciting journey”. She added, “Ours was not a marriage, it was a union. I see my little family, in a boat, with both my sons Babil and Ayaan paddling it forward, with Irrfan guiding them 'wahan nahi, yahan se modo'. But since life is not cinema and there are no retakes.”
