Kabir Khan recently got nostalgic as he remembered the late actor Irrfan Khan. He remembered the time when Irrfan Khan got emotional watching Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s performance in New York.
Narrating the incident, Kabir said, “Ali Abbas Zafar was my assistant (director) on New York. He showed me Nawazuddin’s audition. I said do anything, but we have to get this guy. It’s a non-stop 3-4 minute take, and I never did another take because when I said cut, some of the people in the crew were crying, and some of them were clapping. I remember Irrfan walking in half an hour later, and he said everyone’s talking about Nawaz’s performance.”
Kabir further added, “Everyone was spellbound by his acting chops and his caliber of just nailing a scene. The actor played Zilgai in New York, a man who was arrested after 9/11 on suspicion and tortured while in custody. He is eventually freed but is left scarred by the events. I took Irrfan to the monitor, and I played it, and as he was watching it, tears were streaming down Irrfan’s face. He went and hugged Nawaz.”
