Irrfan Khan hailed as a ‘Guardian Angel’ by villagers who are naming a locality after him

Even though re are movie atres for several kilometres around many vills which lie along foothills of Tringalwi Fort in Igatpuri, Maharashtra, still villrs who reside over re, hail  late actor Irrfan Khan as ir guardian angel and are w renaming locality surrounding Irrfan Khan's farmhouse in Igatpuri as 'Hero-Chi Wi'. villrs have also t missed watching a single movie of Irrfan Khan ever since actor h visited ir vill. villrs reportedly travelled around 30 kilometres by transport buses to movie atres in Nashik to t miss any of Irrfan Khan's movies. 

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Irrfan Khan h been sponsoring education of entire vill

reason behind this is that Irrfan Khan was funding schools in se tribal vills and as a result, h been empowering education system as well as development in se vills. Gorakh Bodke, a member of Zilla Parish in Igatpuri as well as a local politician revealed to an esteemed publication that Irrfan Khan stood by entire vill whenever y needed him. He also said that Irrfan Khan provided vill with an ambulance, sponsored school structures and books for students. 

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Irrfan Khan h first visited vill a dece ago when he h bought a plot of land for a weekend home in Igatpuri. area around Irrfan Khan's plot was home to some ivasi villrs like Kushegaon, Tringalwi, Pardevi and Morale wherein schools lacked some basic amenities. When Gorakh Bodke requested late actor for providing m with an ambulance to villrs to nearest medical facility in case of any emergency, actor immediately donated for same and within a few months, he also started taking interest in development of vill. 

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Irrfan Khan h also donated a dozen computers for students in vill

Bodke also revealed in interview that Angrezi Medium actor was a guardian angel to many families in vills. He furr ded how Irrfan never denied anyone who required help. Bodke also recalled in interview how he me several requests to late actor over a vegetarian lunch at a local dhaba. 

According to media reports, Irrfan Khan used to donate raincoats, tebooks, textbooks and sweaters to over 1000 students who were studying at vill school in tribal areas. Piku actor would send sweets for villrs during any festival and also sponsored a dozen computers for students so that y h access to digital sphere. While villrs started to see less of him when he was diagsed with cancer, y went into mourning when y heard news of his unfortunate demise.