From Street Plays To Bollywood & Hollywood, Irrfan Khan’s Journey As An Actor Has Been Inspiring & Commendable

Irrfan Khan, the versatile bollywood actor who passed away on Wednesday was born and brought up in Jaipur.

Since his childhood, Irrfan Khan had a craving for acting. However, due to unavailability of right platform in the pink city in those days, he started engaging himself in street plays.

According to Irrfan Khan, street plays were very different in those days. “I was asked to act on a filmy scene or a song where I had to mimic the actor. There was no seriousness in the plays in those days.”

Meanwhile, as he grew up, Irrfan Khan felt a strong penchant to act and hence he went to Ravindra Manch office which is more like the artist junction in Jaipur, and is devoted to training of actors for stage, film and television.

Unaware of the whereabouts, Irrfan Khan eagerness took him to a clerk’s office where he humbly requested for acting work.

“This clerk laughed and then guided me to meet the director. Following his instructions, I went to the director and thereafter, I was introduced to the world of theatre. Thereafter, I had no looking back,” Irrfan Khan had said.

Irrfan loved Jaipur from the bottom of his heart. Although he has travelled across the globe, Jaipur remained his favourite destination. “Each and every lane here in this city narrates a royal tale of its own. The rich legacy seen here is hard to be found in any other part of the world. Hence, the majestic & magnanimous Jaipur is yet another enigma, another wonder of the world,” he had said in a meeting with this IANS journalist.