Actor Dilip Kumar’s death has left legions of his fans, colleagues and loved ones shattered. With him, an era of Bollywood has ended. Actor Irrfan Khan‘s son, Babil, took to social media to share what the ‘Hindi Medium’ actor thought about Dilip Kumar.
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“I was at our farmhouse, preparing for ‘Qala’ when I got the news, how ashamed I was to have not been able to do this in time, for the death of a man that inspired Baba and I for uncountable ages,” Babil wrote on social media.
Irrfan Khan died of cancer on April 29 last year. He was 53.
Babil revealed that Irrfan “used to watch Dilip saab in complete Awe” and that there were “very very few instances when Baba would feel awe-struck.”
“The great Dilip saab was one to demand that from him through his irreplaceable charm and subtlety,” he added.
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Babil, who is making his debut in Bollywood with ‘Qala’, said the first time he fell in “love” with the veteran actor was when he watched ‘Andaz’. “His portrayal of the immensely complicated emotion that he had to project in the song ‘Toote na dil Toote na’, I knew I was in love,” he wrote.
Along with the note, Babil also shared a signed copy of Dilip Kumar’s autobiography ‘Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow.’
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“When we received this copy of his Autobiography signed by him, baba and I were a little overwhelmed, in the best way,” he wrote, adding that “to touch these pages. I cannot explain how it feels.”
“May your soul travel into a world that you wished for when all the fame and money became clear as an illusion, and the true purpose of evolution started to dawn on your being,” he wrote and thanked Dilip Kumar for his “immense contribution to the craft of applying honesty to ‘acting'”.
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In his five decades-long career, he was part of several iconic films such as ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, ‘Devdas’, ‘Naya Daur’, and ‘Ram Aur Shyam’. His last film, ‘Qila’, was released in 1998.
