With
the
passing
of
Irrfan
Khan,
not
just
the
Hindi
film
industry,
but
international
cinema
lost
one
of
its
greatest
actors.
Irrfan
had
starred
in
a
number
of
critically
acclaimed
Hindi
and
international
films
like
The
Lunchbox,
Slumdog
Millionaire,
Jurassic
World
and
so
on.
The
actor
was
apparently
in
talks
for
a
film
about
a
pandemic,
with
Ship
Of
Theseus
filmmaker
Anand
Gandhi.
Titled
Emergence,
Gandhi
and
Khan
had
discussed
the
possibility
of
the
latter
being
in
the
film.
Speaking
to
Mumbai
Mirror,
Gandhi
said,
"Irrfan
and
I
drove
to
Pune
once
and
became
friends
over
the
years...
We
explored
the
possibility
of
his
presence
in
Tumbbad
before
the
final
script
and
schedule
changed
things.
He'd
have
been
in
Emergence
too.
I
wish
I
had
created
something
with
him."
Talking
about
the
script,
he
said,
"Like
a
detective,
he
figures
out
the
epicentre
of
a
pandemic
and
calculates
the
R-naught
of
the
contagion,
which
is
a
measure
of
how
many
people
it
can
infect."
"My
script
predicted
the
rise
of
rightwing
politics,
storage
crisis
for
scientific
data,
paleomicrobe
releasing
from
thawing
of
the
Arctic
and
behavioural
changes
brought
on
by
a
pandemic," Gandhi
added.
Irrfan
was
last
seen
in
Angrezi
Medium,
a
spin-off
of
the
2017
film
Hindi
Medium.
It
was
directed
by
Homi
Adajania
and
it
starred
Irrfan
alongside
Deepak
Dobriyal,
Radhika
Madan,
Pankaj
Tripathi,
Dimple
Kapadia
and
Kareena
Kapoor
Khan.
The
film
won
favourable
reviews
from
critics,
but
had
a
limited
a
theatrical
release
due
to
the
Coronavirus
lockdown.
It
eventually
saw
a
digital
release
on
Disney
Hotstar.
Irrfan
Khan
passed
away
on
April
29,
2020.
He
had
battled
neuroendocrine
tumour
for
two
years.