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Irrfan Khan: India's greatest acting export no more
Updated On: 29 April, 2020 11:54 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
For all the worthy local tributes pouring in for an untimely demise, fact is, if it wasn't for the West, the Hindi film industry wouldn't have known where to place Irrfan Khan
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While Mira Nair's The Namesake (2006) introduced Irrfan to the art-house West as Ashoke Ganguli, there was a 2012 profile of his in The New York Times (by Kathryn Shattuck) that, he reckoned, alerted many in the Hollywood establishment to the person behind the roles he'd done thus far.
This is a couple of years after the last season of HBO series In Treatment that I recall Irrfan calling up from the US to say he was particularly proud of. And a few months before the release of Andrew Webb's franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, where he played the antagonist, Rajit Ratha.
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