Irrfan Khan’s grave revamped after controversy

Fans were upset by its poor condition

Irrfan Khan’s son Babil has shared a new picture of the late actor’s grave, decked with hundreds of red roses and a fresh coat of white paint, reported Hindustan Times.

Recently, actor Shekhar Suman had called Irrfan’s grave unkempt and suggested a white marble one. “This is the late actor Irrfan Khan’s grave. Does it teach anything about life? After all the fame and adulation, international acclaim, you lie alone in an unkempt grave. Can the industry wake up and at least get this place done in white marble with a loving epitaph?” he had tweeted.

Before that, a fan of the actor had expressed disappointment on the state of the grave too. They took to the comments section of Irrfan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar’s post and wrote, “Dear Sutapa, recently I saw a photo of Irrfan bhai’s grave and was heartbroken because it’s only few months after and it looks like a trash dumpster. I thought you planted ‘Rat ki Rani’ there, since he loved that plant. What happened? If the photo is real, then it’s a crying shame. If you have a real recent photo of the grave, please post it.”

Sutapa graciously replied, “Women are not allowed in Muslim graveyards. Hence, I have planted the ‘Raat Ki Rani’ in Igatpuri, where I have a memory stone of his and have buried his favourite things. I own that place, where I can sit for hours without any one telling me I can’t sit next to him. He is there in spirit.”

 

 

 

 

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“When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and Strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” - Tarkovsky . Here’s to watching ‘Stalker’ with you for my first film essay three years ago, I’m watching ‘Stalker’ now for the last dissertation. I pause the film from time to time, just like you did with me, to take it all in, you were teaching me then, now I teach myself. Here’s to you, who never hardened, here’s to your forgiving, sensitive soul.

A post shared by Babil (@babil.i.k) on Oct 8, 2020 at 8:41am PDT

Nonetheless, the late superstar’s widow agreed that doesn’t mean graveyard shouldn’t be tended to. “The wild plants grass has grown in rains. Wild and beautiful is what I saw in the photo you are mentioning. It rains and plants come and they wither in the next season and then one can clean it. Why should everything be exactly as per definition? And the plants have grown may be for a purpose… look closely.”

Irrfan died on April 29 after a two-year battle with a neuroendocrine tumour. He is survived by Sutapa, Babil and his other son Ayaan.

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