Babil Khan reminisces about his fishing trip with Irrfan Khan, pens heartfelt note for his father: “I wish I could have one last dance with you” : Bollywood News

Babil Khan often remembers fond memories shared with his late father Irrfan Khan, one of the finest actors Indian cinema has ever seen. Recipient of the National Film Award and the Padma Shri, the Angrezi Medium star passed away in 2020 following his battle with cancer. His family continues to remember him and share anecdotes on social media. Babil Khan on Friday took to Instagram to share a heartfelt note reminiscing about a fishing trip with his father.

Babil Khan reminisces about his fishing trip with Irrfan Khan, pens heartfelt note for his father: “I wish I could have one last dance with you”

In the photo, Babil Khan and Irrfan Khan are holding fishing rods on a boart. Babil wrote, “Nobody knew him like I did, nobody has known me like he did. It’s easy to say, to miss him, it’s easy. It’s easy to be cathartic and cry about losing him. It’s easy. Do you know what is hard? To remember the ecstasy in his voice when he would raise it in exaltation to scream ‘BABILUUUU!!!’ every single time he’d see me.”

He added, “To remember then, how painful it would be to lose him for the stretches of barren time when he would be away shooting. It is impossible to bear the memory of how his beard felt on my fingers when I would scratch his cheek as he read his script or how my fingertips would rest gently on his eyelids when he took a nap. His voice was brilliantly deep, yet it evoked nothing but a gentle prayer from me, a prayer that could only rise from one’s within when an external force has calmed your existential jitters to stillness.”

He concluded, “I wish I could have one last dance with you. And to tell you, that without your lessons, I never would have survived. I will look for you. I will find you again. Somewhere. Beyond.”

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On the work front, Babil Khan made his debut in Anvita Dutt’s Qala (2022). He was most recently seen in the Netflix series The Railway Men (2023).