Irrfan would have wanted to work with Diljit Dosanjh: Sutapa Sikdar
Late actor Irrfan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar took to Instagram and penned an emotional post for his fourth death anniversary (April 29). She posted a picture of the two of them together and captioned it, “It’s four years and three days since Irrfan left me. Four years? A feeling of guilt sweeps through my body. Four years we have LIVED without him — added with fear, sadness and severe helplessness. And then I thought, ‘But still I lived with him more’ (sic).”
She added, “I knew him since 1984 so that makes it 36 years of knowing him. Definitely till I die, I would have spent more time with him than without him. And then I thought, if he was with me physically in 2024, what would have our conversations been like? Because that’s what I miss the most.”
In the same post, Sikdar went on to imagine a conversation with Irrfan about singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh’s recent film, Amar Singh Chamkila, and how if he was alive, he would come back to work, read a book and they’d discuss cinema. Here’s how she saw it going:
Me: You have to see Chamkila. He would not have looked up immediately (never did while he was reading)
Me: He is so good... I loved his performance.
He: Accha? Who?
Me: Arrey yaar, Diljit Dosanjh. He is not structured and all heart. He makes me feel...
He: (Now looking at me) Accha... you think he is that good?
Me: Yes! You should work together; it will be magic. You should play a sardar again after Qissa in a two brothers kind of story.
He: Hm (his phone rings) Hey, Dinu (Dinesh Vijan). Yaar yeh Sutapa bol rahi hai Diljit Dosanjh bahut accha hai.
Me: Accha nahi bahut accha.
He: Haan yaar, let’s do something... let’s do something on Punjabi Sufi poets. Main dekhta hoon aaj Chamkila OR He would be listening on his headphones as he enters. ’Arrey yaar, Sutup, kya likha hai Irshad ne. (He loved Irshad Kamil) Uff, khatarnaak. Suna hai tumne Vida Karo? What a song.’
He and his manager Manpreet are sitting and he is saying, ‘Get me a Malayali film. I want to work with this director where Fahad Fasil is there. Yaar I am forgetting the name. I am telling you if Bollywood doesn’t mend its ways etc etc... I will do a Malayali film!