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Irrfan Khan

Was offered Matt Damon's part in 'Interstellar' and Chiwetel Ejiofer's part in 'The Martian', he ended up turning down both roles due to scheduling conflicts.
When he arrived in Bombay, he worked as a air conditioner repair man. One of the first houses he visited to repair a air conditioner was the house of superstar Rajesh Khanna.
Four days before his own decease in april 29th 2020, Khan's 95-year-old mother died in Jaipur. Khan could not attend her funeral because of India's nationwide lock-down aimed at tackling the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
The first Bollywood actor to star in two films that won the Academy Award for Best Director (स्लमडॉग करोड़पती (2008) and Life of Pi (2012)). Both films also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score.
Irrfan also said no to Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008). And his biggest regret was missing out on Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014), because his smaller India-based project The Lunchbox was being shot at the same time.

I often visualized giving my mother this big black suitcase crammed with notes like those gangsters do in our masala flicks.
We're yet to make inroads into the West and the way Chinese cinema is made. I mean, long before Ang Lee's 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon', Bruce Lee had made an impact on the Western audience with his 'Enter The Dragon'. Indian cinema has yet to make that kind of impact. But we're getting there.