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Irrfan Khan is one of the best actors in the Indian film industry and one of the most successful actors exported to Hollywood.
He is an old drama star who has appeared in almost 80 movies, but he almost gave up his acting career in his 30s, when he spent 10 years in the television drama industry.
Kahan does not have the guise of a traditional Bollywood love movie protagonist, but has become a character actor in the Hindi language film industry, with “Life of Pi” and “Slumdog Millionaire” (Slumdog) Millionaire, “One Million and One Night”) and “Jurassic World” (Jurassic World) and other films have been named Hollywood.
Because he likes deep reflection and philosophical thinking, Kahan often speaks frankly and controversially about his Muslim religious beliefs and the film industry in which he participates.
“I have always opposed the word ‘Bollywood’,” he said in an interview with the British “Guardian”, “This industry has its own technology … This has nothing to do with imitating Hollywood. It comes from The Parsi Theater in India “.
“Hollywood is too planned. India has no plans at all, it is more impromptu and informal. India can become more formal and Hollywood can be more improvised.”
In fact, few actors can claim to have conquered both expressions, as well as Ivan Kahan.
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Ivan Kahan starred in the Hollywood box office hit “Jurassic World,” playing an ill-fated billionaire.
Early life
Ivan Kahan was born on January 7, 1967, in the small town of Tonk, Rajasthan, India, whose real name is Sahabzada Irfan Ali Khan.
His mother’s family has an aristocratic lineage, while his father is a wealthy self-made businessman who runs a tire business.
Because “Sahabu Zada” in the name implied a prominent family, and Kahan thought it would affect him, then he removed it from his name. He also changed his name from “Irfan” to “Irrfan”, this time not for noble reasons, but simply because he likes to read the name.
After his father’s death, he did not continue the tire business as expected. He is determined to be an actor, although this represents a future that neither family nor friends can predict.
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Ivan Kahan appeared in dozens of Indian movies.
“Nobody imagined that I would become an actor, I was so shy, so thin, but this desire is very strong.”
In 1984, he applied for a scholarship to the National Theater Academy in Delhi. He lied that he had theatrical experience and was successfully admitted.
“I think if I wasn’t admitted, I would suffocate and die,” he said in an interview.
At the Drama Academy, he also met his later wife, the writer Sutapa Sikdar.
“He is always very focused. I remember he would go straight to the room as soon as he got home and sat on the floor to read a book. The rest of us stayed and talked,” his wife recalled.
First rookie, hit hard
Kahan hoped to enter the world of cinema, but the first roles were in soap operas on Indian television. There are dozens of cable television channels, each of which has a large number of locally produced periodicals. Such work is easy to find, but there is little sense of accomplishment in art.
For ten years, he was caught in hundreds of non-nurturing “middle-class housewife” roles on Zee and Star Plus television stations. He’s even seriously considering stopping acting.
“For a time, they didn’t even give me money because they thought I was doing wrong,” he said.
His first experience on the big screen was even more disappointing. He was selected to play a young role in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay, which was later nominated for an Oscar, but what caught his attention the most was that his scene was in the editing room. All were cut.
The writer sympathized with him, but could only say: “Victory or defeat is common.”
Big screen of star trails
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Ivan Kahan is in his famous work “The Return of War”.
His breakthrough came in the movie “The Warrior” co-produced by Britain and India. The film was shot in the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan.
This is a long debut by British director Asif Kapadia. He didn’t have the budget to hire famous Bollywood actors, so he sought talented actors with no reputation. Kahan was chosen to play a warlord of the same name.
The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at BAFTAS. He was also selected on the official list of the British Oscars, but then had to withdraw because Hindi is not a native language of English.
The success of “The Return of the God of War” in the critical world has made Kahan’s film career take off from now on. Over the next two decades, he appeared in five to six movies each year.
Kahan has been in contact with Mila Nair, who discovered him at the Drama Academy but interrupted him on “Good Morning Mumbai”. They later collaborated on The Namesake in 2006 and New York, I Love You in 2010.
Michael Winterbottom chose him to play a Pakistani police officer in A Mighty Heart, while Wes Anderson appeared in The Darjeeling Limited Zhong wrote a small role for him, only to cooperate with him.
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“Slumdog Millionaire” made Kahan and Dave Patel an international movie star.
In 2008, she collaborated with Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). Kahan played a police detective, believing that Jamal played by Dev Patel was a liar and beat him up. Boyle described the performance of that work as “looking beautiful.”
At this point, Cahan has reached a stage where he can play tricks.
“I try to make influential movies in the long run, talk to you, and I think about it often after you see it. I prefer those movies with enduring connections,” he said in an interview.
He refused to make religious films.
Kahan would also refuse to appear in roles he considered too religious and culturally significant: he declined to participate in “Midnight’s Children” and Mila Neil of Deepa Mehta. “The Stranger in Lahore Tea House” (Reluctant Fundamentalist, “I’m Not Laden”).
After the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, he was detained twice in Los Angeles only because his name resembled a terrorism suspect.
He tried to drop the last name “Kahan”, only “Ivan” appeared in the cast of the film. He also disliked Muslim leaders by criticizing Islam’s practice of slaughtering animals.
Cahan plays scientist Rajgit Lata in Columbia Pictures’ “Supernatural Spider-Man”.
“We follow these customs, but we don’t know the meaning behind this,” he said.
He was furiously beaten, noting that he should focus on the film business, rather than “casually comment on our religion.”
In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri – this is the fourth class citizen honor award in India, in recognition of his contribution to art.
A year later, she played the adult Piscine in “The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi” -Ang Lee, a movie adapted from the Booker Prize novel, about a boy who was struck by a shipwreck. The story of a zebra, an orangutan, and a bengal tiger coexisting in the rescue boat.
He was later portrayed as the super scientist Rajit Ratha in “The Amazing Spiderman” and as a billionaire in “Jurassic World” Simon Masrani’s Opportunity.
He also appeared in “Blackmail” and “Puzzles” directed by Abhinay Deo, who was filmed in New York, with Kelly Macdonald) There are opponents.
Suffering from illness
In 2018, he was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor, a disease that affects cells that release hormones into the blood.
In a tweet, he quoted Margaret Mitchell, author of “Margaret Mitchell,” and made a philosophical interpretation of the news.
“Life is not obligated to give us everything we hope for,” he said.
He went to London for treatment and posted a poem for his fans on Instagram, claiming that his religious beliefs played a role in accepting the illness.
“When God created us, He spoke to each of us and then accompanied us silently out of the night.”
On April 29, the famous Indian actor Ivan Kahan died of a colon infection in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 53.
