Four years after Irrfan Khan's passing, his wife and screenwriter, Sutapa Sikdar, honoured his memory on Instagram with a unique tribute. She shared a heartfelt imagined conversation she would have had with Irrfan if he were still alive.
In a dialogue written like a script, Sutapa narrated how Irrfan would've instantly called Dinesh Vijan (his Hindi Medium and Angrezi Medium producer) to develop a film with him and Diljit Dosanjh after Sutapa would've raved about the latter's latest movie, Imtiaz Ali's musical biopic Amar Singh Chamkila.
Sutapa envisioned Irrfan immersing himself in the film's music by AR Rahman, particularly praising Irshad Kamil's lyrics in the climactic song "Vida Karo." She also imagined proposing to Irrfan the idea of reprising his role as a Sardar from Anup Singh's "Qissa" (2014) to collaborate with Diljit in a new film.
Sutapa's hypothetical interaction with Irrfan also involved him warning that if “Bollywood doesn’t mend its way,” he'd do a Malayalam film. He'd refer to a director who helmed a Fahadh Faasil movie and would get his manager to make it happen.
Before diving into her imagination, Sutapa wrote, “It’s 4 years and three days since Irrfan left me. Four years? A feeling of guilt sweeps through my body. 4 years we have lived without him added with sadness, fear, hopelessness and severe helplessness. And then I thought but still I lived with him more. I knew him since 1984 so that makes 36 years of knowing him more and definitely till I die I would have spent more time with him then without him.”
