Published 14:19 IST, August 12th 2020

Varun Grover pens an emotional blog on Irrfan Khan; calls it 'Four meetings with Irrfan'

Varun Grover recently published a personal emotional and heart-warming blog about his four experiences with late actor Irrfan Khan. Read here.

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Writer-comedian Varun Grover recently shared an emotional and heart-warming blog about his four experiences with late actor Irrfan Khan. Varun relived memories he has of maverick artist through his blog and how he experienced peace of thoughts in Irrfan. Varun has divided his four meetings year wise starting from 2005 to 2019.

Grover went on to share link of his blog through his Twitter handle. writer titled blog "Four meetings with Irrfan Khan". Along with post, Grover also wrote, “Writing this goodbye broke me all over again. But probably or way.” Take a look at post below.

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Seeing this post, fans could t stop commenting on post. y also went on to express ir views over blog calling it “beautiful,” “amazing,” and much more. One of users wrote, “So beautifully expressed and explained.” While or one wrote, “this me my day”. Take a look at a few more comments below.

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About Varun’s first and last meeting with Irrfan

Varun wrote about his first chance encounter with Irrfan, as a fan in a mall in 2005, saying that on that day very few would have recognized him in that mall, for him and for Rahul (Varun’s writer friend) he was a superstar. He furr narrated saying he and his friend approached him nervously as Irrfan was about to enter an elevator. y told him y aspire to be authors, and y love his work and his passion.

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He ded that Khan listened patiently and expressed his surprise that duo h seen Maqbool and Haasil. y also told actor that y h a few stories and y wanted to tell him. Immediately Irrfan shared his number and said to call him whenever y were rey.

Varun also wrote that he couldn't think of things to talk about, but he wanted chat to go on and Rahul decided to ask, "Can I buy you a coffee?". And soon Irrfan told m that he would buy m a cup of coffee.

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Varun and Irrfan last met during a virtual meeting in 2019. He ded that news of his illness in 2018 brought a fog of sness to his mirers and friends around world. It was same year that his biggest commercial success, Hindi Medium (2017), won a number of awards. He was longer just an actor of art or international film, but also a bona fide star in Hindi cinema universe.

In meantime, Varun h written a song for his film Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017, directed by Tanuja Chandra) and h direct access to it in a way. But Varun said he couldn't find cour to talk to Irrfan. He revealed he sent his heartfelt messs of love on phone and email and waited for a miracle in silence.

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About Irrfan Khan

Irrfan Khan was regarded as one of most prolific actors in film fraternity. He starred in several films such as Piku, Hindi Medium, Lunch Box, Life of Pi, Infer and much more. actor passed away on April 29, 2020, after a two-year battle with neuroendocrine tumour. Irrfan was on treatment in UK and h returned to India just months before his own death. His last film, Angrezi Medium h a limited release as shutdown caused by coronavirus shut down atres but film was highly appreciated.

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14:19 IST, August 12th 2020