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At the book launch of Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies, written by Indian Express film critic Shubhra Gupta, the actor’s wife Sutapa Sikdar has opened up about how Irrfan Khan would improvise certain scenes in movies. Sutapa remembered a time during the making of Piku when Irrfan improvised a scene. At first, this bothered Amitabh Bachchan, but later on, they became friends and everything was fine.
Sutapa said, “Irrfan would work along with the director and the writer. They would have many drafts by the end of it and when he would go on stage, he would kind of improvise. He would never improvise to take the limelight, but he would try to break the language in a way.”
Sutapa, who is also an acclaimed writer, recalled having a conversation with director Shoojit Sircar, who helmed the film Piku. Shoojit told Sutapa, “Bachchan saab is very structured and really prepared when he comes and Irrfan improvised and he got really upset. Then they became friends.”
Talking about the interval scene that left everyone impressed, Sutapa said that the whole scene was improvised and Shubhra added, “Shoojit said he did not have the courage to cut it.” Shubhra also recalled that Shoojit once said, “When I was directing Irrfan [on the set of] Piku, I would sometimes even be afraid of saying ‘Cut’”. The interval scene was the one where Deepika, Irrfan, and Big B’s characters were stuck on a highway, having a heated argument.
Irrfan breathed his last on April 29, 2020. The actor was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour and succumbed to colon infection. Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies, written by Shubhra Gupta and published by Pan Macmillan India, was launched in Delhi on Sunday.
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