In a telephone call, Nair, in New York, spoke about her work and friendship with Khan, who died Wednesday at 53. I rented an empty flat in Bombay, where we lived two or three months — he, me, another cinematographer and many street kids, whoever couldn’t find a home for the night. But somehow with Irrfan, I always felt that he never gave it away easily, that he never took the easiest buck. It took years before my heart landed in Jhumpa’s “The Namesake.” (Lahiri, too, had a role in the film.) We have a beautiful word in Urdu — “shaukeen” — which means somebody with a lot of love and indulgences and delights.

Source: bd News24 April 30, 2020 01:07 UTC