{"id":22530,"date":"2020-04-29T02:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22530"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:08:15","slug":"irrfan-khan-passes-away-at-the-age-of-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22530","title":{"rendered":"Irrfan Khan passes away at the age of 54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irfan-khan-dies.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irfan-khan-dies.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irfan-khan-dies-300x208.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Bollywood <\/em>(Indian cinemas) star <em>Irrfan Khan <\/em>has passed away aged 54 after a prolonged battle with Cancer in the city of <em>Mumbai<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Irrfan Khan<\/em> was a versatile actor with a great number of movies in <em>Bollywood<\/em> and a good handful in <em>Hollywood<\/em> as well under his belt. He was known for his work in <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em> (2008), <em>The Lunchbox <\/em>(2013), <em>Haider<\/em> (2014), and <em>Karwaan<\/em> (2018) to name a few in <em>Bollywood<\/em>. For his work in <em>Hollywood<\/em>,  <em>Irrfan Khan<\/em> was well known for his work in <em>Life of Pi<\/em> (2012), <em>The Amazing Spider-man (2012), Jurrasic World (2015),<\/em> and <em>The Warrior (2001<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His work in the Bollywood industry was not just in the movie space alone. He was a game-changer for the advertising space as well, with his iconic portrayal in the telecom advertisement, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=909w0OK3FfY\">Hutch chota recharge<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was among the first few Indian actors to make a consistent mark in <em>Hollywood<\/em>. He had earned himself several national and international awards for his work in Bollywood movies like <em>Hindi Medium<\/em> (2018), and <em>Paan Singh Tomar<\/em> (2010). His movies <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em> (2008) and <em>Life of Pi<\/em> (2012) are Oscar winning movies as well. His last film was Bollywood film <em>Angrezi Medium<\/em> (2020) which was released in India a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actors from Bollywood have started pouring in tributes online. Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan called him an incredible talent and a gracious colleague on his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">T 3516 &#8211; .. just getting news of the passing of Irfaan Khan .. this is a most disturbing and sad news .. \ud83d\ude4f<br>An incredible talent .. a gracious colleague .. a prolific contributor to the World of Cinema .. left us too soon .. creating a huge vacuum .. <br>Prayers and duas \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>&mdash; Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SrBachchan\/status\/1255387239330263041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a crowd favorite of the Indian spectators and this feels like a big blow as a fan of his work. Below is a small excerpt from his work in <em>Life of Pi<\/em> which stuck with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_ji32apZg7\/\n<\/div><figcaption>Via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tedthestoner\/?hl=en\">TedTheStoner<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured Image Credits &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in peace, Legend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":22532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[813,6],"tags":[2416,2417,2418],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film-tv","tag-irrfan-khan","tag-life-of-pi","tag-slumdog-millionaire"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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