Mother would send ghee to skinny Irrfan

TNN | Apr 30, 2020, 04:15 IST

Mysuru: As a student of National School of Drama (NSD), actor Irrfan Khan was very fond of the ghee that his mother would send in the hope of making him gain some weight. “He never used to share the ghee with us, but we always used to chase him for it,” recalls theatre activist K R Sumathi, Irrfan’s classmate at NSD.
Irrfan’s mother passed away three days before his death. “When his mother passed away, Sutapa (Irrfan’s wife) informed us that Irrfan was disturbed a lot and sad,” she says.
Sumathi says she, Irrfan and Sutapa were a small gang of friends in NSD. “In April 2015, he was supposed to return to Bengaluru after attending an event in Badanavalu. But he directly came to my house early in the morning without any intimation. He was a loving friend for all,” she recalls.
Sumathi’s husband and theatre activist H Janardhana was Irrfan’s senior at NSD. “We later became good friends,” he says. As the director of Rangayana, Janardhana had invited Irrfan to the valedictory of Bahuroopi, the annual theatre festival of Rangayana, in January 2016.