![]() ![]() He also appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man. He is survived by his wife Sutapa and sons Babil and Ayan. Irrfan Khan, starred in ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ ‘Life of Pi,’ dies at 54 Khan played the police inspector in Slumdog Millionaire and the park executive Masrani in Jurassic World. “An incredible talent … a gracious colleague, a prolific contributor to the World of Cinema, left us too soon, creating a huge vacuum,” tweeted veteran Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan. ![]() Khan’s mother passed away in Jaipur a few days ago and he had to witness the funeral remotely via video link from Mumbai due to the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in India.įilmmaker Karan Johar tweeted: “Thank you for those indelible movie memories….thank you for raising the bar as an artist …thank you for enriching our cinema….we will miss you terribly Irrfan but will always always be immensely grateful for your presence in our lives….our cinema….we salute you.” Following a shipwreck, the duo latched onto a lifeboat stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. ![]() Internationally, Khan’s most visible performances include “ Slumdog Millionaire,” “Life of Pi,” “The Lunchbox,” “The Namesake,” “Jurassic World,” “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Inferno.” He starred in 2017 film “The Song of Scorpions,” a Variety award nominee at the Locarno Festival. Based on Yann Martels 2001 novel of the same name, Life of Pi revolves around two survivors of a shipwreck Pi Patel, a 16-year-old Indian boy, and Richard Parker, a ferocious Royal Bengal tiger. His major breakthrough in Indian cinema was in 2004 where he played Macbeth in Vishal Bharadwaj’s “Maqbool” and the antagonist in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s “Haasil.” In 2011, his turn as a soldier-turned-bandit in Dhulia’s “Paan Singh Tomar” earned him India’s National Award for best actor. ![]()
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