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Published 16:56 IST, October 9th 2020

Babil Khan pens emotional note for Irrfan Khan, shares a pic of his roses-decked grave

Late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan took to his Instagram handle to share a picture of his father’s grave in Mumbai decked with roses while penning a note.

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Babil Khan shares Irrfan Khan's roses decked grave, says 'here’s to your forgiving soul'
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Late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan took to his Instagram handle to share a picture of his father’s grave in Mumbai. Decorated with the bed of roses, Babil recapitulated the time when he watched the 1979 Sci-fi adventure film Stalker for his first film essay three years ago and now he is watching the film alone for his last dissertation. Babil recalled the memories of watching the film with his father and now when he is not around, a doting son wrote that with every scene, he pauses the film from time to time just the way his father did three years back.

Babil Khan shares a picture of father Irrfan Khan's grave

Babil penned a lengthy note on Instagram with the picture of the grave and started off with a beautiful quote by the film’s director Andrei Tarkovsky that spoke volumes about several behavioral changes in humans and its surroundings. The quote read, “When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and Strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” – Tarkovsky.”

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“When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and Strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” - Tarkovsky . Here’s to watching ‘Stalker’ with you for my first film essay three years ago, I’m watching ‘Stalker’ now for the last dissertation. I pause the film from time to time, just like you did with me, to take it all in, you were teaching me then, now I teach myself. Here’s to you, who never hardened, here’s to your forgiving, sensitive soul.

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Babil further wrote that he is now watching the film again for his last dissertation and with every scene, he can relate to some of the teachings and lessons that his father taught him while the two were watching the film. He dedicated the moment to his father and wrote at the end, “Here’s to you, who never hardened, here’s to your forgiving, sensitive soul.”

Apart from Babil, his mother Sutapa Sikdar took to her Instagram and shared the picture of his husband’s grave along with a thought-provoking caption. Sutapa celebrated both 'life and death' using American poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Gluck's lines.The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on October 8 “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The prize was announced in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. Sutapa wrote, "Then they're in the cemetery, some of them for the first time. They're frightened of crying, sometimes of not crying. Someone leans over, tells them what to do next, which might mean saying a few words, sometimes throwing dirt in the open grave." [sic]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I'll tell you something: every day people are dying. And that's just the beginning. Every day, in funeral homes, new widows are born, new orphans. They sit with their hands folded, trying to decide about this new life. Then they're in the cemetery, some of them for the first time. They're frightened of crying, sometimes of not crying. Someone leans over, tells them what to do next, which might mean saying a few words, sometimes throwing dirt in the open grave. And after that, everyone goes back to the house, which is suddenly full of visitors. The widow sits on the couch, very stately, so people line up to approach her, sometimes take her hand, sometimes embrace her. She finds something to say to everbody, thanks them, thanks them for coming. In her heart, she wants them to go away. She wants to be back in the cemetery, back in the sickroom, the hospital. She knows it isn't possible. But it's her only hope, the wish to move backward. And just a little, not so far as the marriage, the first kiss. by #Louise Gluck#Nobelprize#celebratinglifeand death

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16:57 IST, October 9th 2020