It's been more than a month since Irrfan Khan passed away. He breathed his last on April 29 in Mumbai. Now, his friend and neighbour from Jaipur, Ziaullah, has said that even in his final days, the actor was working to raise money for coronavirus relief. Speaking to Pinkvilla, Ziaullah revealed that Irrfan's only condition was that no one should know about it.
"With the Coronavirus situation, we were creating funds to help people. When we spoke to his brother, he was ready to help and even Irrfan helped us with funds for poor people. His only clause was nobody should know that he has helped. As a family, they believe that the right hand shouldn't know what the left hand has given. For them it was more important for people to get relief," he said.
He added, "Now, I am sharing this with the world as he is no more between us. It's our responsibility to tell everyone that there are souls like this too."
Ziaullah also revealed Irrfan's love for his mother. He said, "He would rush home whenever he was informed of his ammi (mother's) health. He would visit if it is for a short period, but his arrival to meet his mother was indubitable." His mother passed away just a few days prior to his death.
Meanwhile, in an article published in The Hindu, Naseeruddin Shah remembered the late actor and wrote, He has written, "Irrfan (as he insisted on spelling it), went away in the same unobtrusive and dignified manner as he had lived. Much beforeMaqboolwas a germ of an idea in Vishal Bhardwaj's head, one day on returning home I saw Ratna sitting in my drawing room with a very slight, very mild looking person who was rehearsing with her for a TV film they were to act in together. If not for those eyes I might have taken no notice of the man, never having seen him perform but something in his quiet assurance as he rose to greet me that day stayed with me mildly respectful, not at all ingratiating, with a handshake that had a gentle firmness, all stemming from an unshakeable confidence in himself and a deep interest in others, the quality that was to define him for me always."
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