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 Irrfan Khan
Spotlight By: Michael Dance Irrfan Khan is an unfamiliar face to American audiences, although with any luck that may change. Born in Jaipur, India, Khan took roles in various Indian television programs before hitting it big with the critically acclaimed The Warrior, which garnered Khan international notices thanks to it making the rounds on the festival circuit. Starring roles in Bollywood and Indian films followed, such as Maqbool, an update of Macbeth set in India. Khan’s first appeared in the United States in this past spring’s The Namesake, which co-starred Kal Penn and was directed by famous Indian director Mira Nair. Khan’s very first role was actually in Nair’s breakthrough movie, Salaam Bombay, but he was cut out of the film in the editing room. “It was my first setback after drama school,” Khan says of the experience. “So after twelve, thirteen, fourteen years, [Nair] said, ‘Here, I owed you a role, here is the role,’ so she gave me Namesake. And I said, ‘Is this going to change my life?’ And she said, ‘Don’t put that much responsibility on me.’” He laughs. After working on that film, Khan landed a major role in A Mighty Heart, which opens this Friday. The film is about the true-life story of the kidnapping of journalist Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists and the aftermath that followed. Angelina Jolie stars as Pearl’s wife Mariane, and Khan plays a man known only as Captain, the head of the Pakistani Anti-Terrorist Squad, who attempted to crack the case and find Daniel and his kidnappers. “I couldn’t meet him, I couldn’t talk to him, because he’s from Pakistan, he’s from the police department, he’s not supposed to talk about his cases to a person who doesn’t belong to his country,” Khan says of the real man he’s portraying. “And the case itself was a very sensitive case. The production company promised me they would arrange a meeting with him, and I was supposed to go and meet him in Paris; at the last moment I came to know that he’s not in touch. He’s disappeared. “There were so many questions I wanted to ask him…you have this information in the book that the ATS department, the Anti-Terrorist Squad, was recently formed in Pakistan, because earlier there was no department like that in Pakistan. And they were not [equipped] at all. Like, they had these two telephones, and there’s three or four people. There were no people, there was no office, there was no telephone, no fax machine; there was a car, but it was a rundown car. So how did they go about it, what was his system? I really wanted to know so many things…because his life would not remain the same after this case. He has to deal with it all his life after this. There were ... |
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