Photos: Irrfan Khan, distinguished actor, dies aged 53

Irrfan Khan, an icon of Indian cinema and a representative of its range among western audiences, died age 53 in Mumbai. The actor had been recovering from extensive treatment for a neuroendocrine tumor and was rushed into intensive care yesterday for a colon infection.

Updated on: Apr 29, 2020 8:21 PM IST

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Actor Irrfan Khan seen at his house in Mumbai in 2016. The acclaimed actor died on April 29, 2020 at the age of 53, after being admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital a day prior, where he was under observation for colon infection. (Aalok Soni / HT Archive)

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Irrfan Khan in a still from Priyadarshan’s Billu Barber (2009). Mira Nair was the first to spot the actor’s talent and cast him in Salaam Bombay! in 1988. The two went on to collaborate again in the critically acclaimed The Namesake (2006) and for the director’s segment in New York, I Love You (2008).

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Irrfan Khan during an interview. Born Irfan Ali Khan in Tonk in 1966, the eldest of three siblings, Irrfan joined National School of Drama after trying his luck at a career in cricket. (Aalok Soni / HT Archive)

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After doing TV soap operas for a number of years, a period of Irrfan’s three decade long career that he described as ‘being stuck’, he found his big break in Aasif Kapadia’s The Warrior (2001). His career steadily progressed – in India where he went on from playing character roles to headlining films, and then went on to become India’s most celebrated faces. (HT Archive)

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Actor Irrfan Khan (R) with his wife Sutapa Sikdar during a press conference to extend his support to the Badanavalu Satyagraha, in Bengaluru, on April 10, 2015. Khan earned steady praise at home and abroad as an actor whose performances were lifelike, dependable. (PTI File)

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Irrfan Khan in a still from the 2012 film Pan Singh Tomar for which he won the National Film Award for best actor, a compelling tale of a seven-time national champion athlete who quit the Indian armed forces to rule the Chambal ravines in central India.

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Former President Pratibha Patil confers the Padma Shri award on the actor at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 31, 2011. In March 2018, Khan disclosed he had been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour, but after extensive treatment made a recovery to shoot Angrezi Medium, the film that would turn out to be his last. (Sunil Saxena / HT Archive)

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Irrfan Khan in The Lunchbox(2013). Best-knows to western audiences for his roles in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and Jurassic Park, the understated and self-effacing actor left his mark on Indian and world cinema with deftness unique to him.