Irrfan Khan’s son Babil reveals shocking details about Bollywood amid nepotism debate
Ever since Sushant Singh Rajput died of suicide, Irrfan Khan’s son Babil is quite active on social media and keeps voicing his opinion doing around Dil Bechara actor. Recently, he took to his Instagram handle and dropped a long post revealing what his father once told about Bollywood.
Through his post, he took a dig a Bollywood’s ‘blatant sexism and same-old conventional representations of patriarchy’ that defeated his father at the box-office. In his lengthy post, he wrote that one of the most important things his father taught him as a student of cinema was that he has to prove himself because Bollywood is seldom respected in world cinema.
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Further revealing on how his father’s warning came true he wrote, “Unfortunately, it did happen. Bollywood was not respected, no awareness of 60's - 90's Indian cinema or credibility of opinion. There was literally one single lecture in the world cinema segment about Indian cinema called 'Bollywood and Beyond', that too gone through in a class full of chuckles. it was tough to even get a sensible conversation about the real Indian cinema of Satyajit Ray and K. Asif going."
He further went on to talk about Indian audience taste in regard to movies which refuse to evolve. He wrote, his father Irrfan gave his life trying to elevate the art of acting however he was defeated in the box office by the hunks of six-packs abs.
Towards the end of the lengthy note, he wrote that now there is a change and a new fragrance in wind. He urged people to not let the thirst for deeper meaning be repressed again. He closed his note by writing, “(Although I resent that Sushant's demise has now become a fluster of political debates, but if a positive change is manifesting, in the way of the Taoist, we embrace it)”
First published: 9 July 2020, 13:45 IST