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Irrfan Khan’s younger son Ayaan shares old pic of dad, writes, ‘The flesh we roam this earth in is a blessing, not a promise’
Irrfan Khan’s younger son, Ayaan, has shared pictures of his father on Instagram.
Actor Irrfan Khan’s younger son, Ayaan, has shared an Instagram post of his father, two days after his death on Wednesday. Irrfan had been suffering from a neuroendocrine tumour.
Ayaan shared two pictures of himself with Irrfan -- one as a child and the other as a young man -- on Instagram, and captioned his post, “The flesh we roam this earth in is a blessing, not a promise….” The first picture shows Ayaan riding a bike with his father, while the second one shows them walking on a street -- perhaps in London, where the actor underwent treatment for several months.
Ayaan also shared his mother, Sutapa Sikdar‘s statement on behalf of the family. Sutapa’s statement read: “How can I write this as a family statement when the whole world is taking it as a personal loss? How can I begin to feel alone when millions are grieving with us at the moment? I want to assure everyone that this is not a loss, it is a gain. It’s a gain of the things he taught us, and now we shall finally begin to truly implement it and evolve. Yet I want to try to fill in the things that people don’t already know.”
She continued, “I asked my children, if possible, they could sum up a lesson taught by their father that has been important to them; Babil: ‘Learn to surrender to the dance of uncertainty and trust your faith in the universe.’ Ayaan: ‘Learn to control your mind and to not let it control you.’”
Sutapa summed up her life with Irrfan as a “wondrous, beautiful, overwhelming, painful and exciting journey “ and said, “Ours was not a marriage, it was a union. I see my little family, in a boat, with both my sons Babil and Ayaan, paddling it forward, with Irrfan guiding them “wahan nahi, yahan se modo” but since life is not cinema and there are no retakes.”
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