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A tribute: With Irrfan Khan, less was always more Irrfan's appeal lay in precisely what he could not be: a textbook Hindi film idol. He was an alternate hero.
It was this same cruel month of April back in 2002. Irrfan Khan, despite more than a decade of struggle and the popular Tony and Deeya Singh serial Banegi Apni Baat behind him, had only just begun to make an impression on the Hindi cinema audience. But London-based director Asif Kapadia, who had directed him in his award winning debut feature The Warrior in 2001, told me that Irrfan was, "the Indian Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Gary Oldman or Vincent Gallo... He can do anything he wants... I look forward to seeing him fly." He said this for a piece I was doing back then for Outlook magazine on the new compelling actors on Hindi cinema's horizon.
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