‘I wanted to watch Dhoom, dad showed me Tarkovsky’: Babil says Irrfan Khan never taught him acting

When asked to highlight a quality of Irrfan that he has imbibed, Babil said, “Quality as an actor I haven’t kept, Quality as a human being I have kept. When you keep qualities as a human being, it reflects in your acting. You know, it’s not about acting; acting is not actually what acting is. It’s about living and being able to reflect that onto your art through the craft of acting, which you have to learn.”

Babil, who made his debut with the film Qala, said that they never discussed acting at home. He continued, “He never gave me the advice to go in front of the camera. He never gave me acting tips, we never discussed acting at our home. He taught me a lot about living life, which now, I’m learning acting on my own. If you had not taught me this about life, I would have not learnt this about acting. He was teaching me about acting through life.”

Irrfan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer in March 2018 and passed away in 2020.