Khan suffered from a neuroendocrine tumor and died surrounded by his family.
“Sometimes you wake up with a jolt with life shaking you up.
The last 15 days, my life has been a suspense story, the actor wrote at the time.
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Little had I known that my search for rare stories would make me find a rare disease.
I have never given up and have always fought for my choices and always will.”
Peace and Om shanti.
Irfaan Khan salute."
“But the desire was so intense.”
A leading role in 2001’s BAFTA-winningThe Warriorfrom director Asif Kapadia changed everything.
“Asif and I have been longing to work together again since then,” he said.
“I’ve been watching his last film [Senna].
I did eventually see it on a screen.
A kind of tiny screen… on an airplane.”
Director Danny Boyle would later describe Khan’s role inSlumdog Millionaireas “beautiful to watch.”
His passing away is cinemas loss.
We will miss him dearly.
May you Rest In Peace, my dear friend."
“There are films which are like a one night stand: You indulge and you forget.
I don’t enjoy those kinds of films very much,” Khan oncetold the BBC in 2013.
