Babil says he used to ‘laugh his heart out’ with dad Irrfan Khan: ‘I don’t laugh like that anymore, it’s a strange thing’

“It was peak cancer treatment. We were in London, Baba was living there,” Babil, who is in his mid 20s, recalled about the time Irrfan was getting treated in the United Kingdom.

“If you sat in that room, you would not know that Baba was a cancer patient. That was the beauty of Mumma, her treatment towards Baba and Baba’s reciprocation to that. I can never successfully place you in that room, because the conversations were so instinctive and so spontaneous that if I tried to do so, it wouldn’t be spontaneous.”

 

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Babil takes a pause as he reflects on the time gone by and says when the family was together, there was “a lot of” laughter. “A laughter that I have not experienced ever since he passed away. I used to laugh my heart out, I don’t laugh like that anymore. That’s such a strange thing.

“When you lose somebody you laugh with, you don’t ever laugh the same. But instead of placing you in our room with my narration, I’d like to offer you an invitation to come. Baba is not there, but Mumma is there, so am I and my brother. And we are very nice.”

The breezy young adult Friday Night Plan directed by Vatsal Neelakantan is a complete departure for Babil from Anvitaa Dutt’s intense musical drama Qala. Babil jokes that in Qala, he was there only briefly, where he came cried and went back.

“But there was a lot of subtext that I had to carry. Jagan in Qala is a guy who is extremely spiritually secure. He had to carry the subtext, find the pain, there was a betrayal… But with this, it was more like you go on set, you know your character and you try to have fun with it. So the two were very different from each other, including the process and the environment,” he adds.

Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, Friday Night Plan is written by Vatsal Neelakantan and Sapan Verma. The movie also stars Medha Rana, Aadhya Anand, Ninad Kamath. Friday Night Plan will release on September 1.