"My search for stories will continue." Irrfan Khan shared some endearing tales from his childhood and his love for storytelling in this 2015 conversation. Today is the late actor's 55th birth anniversary.
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00:00Your eyes, your words, like a rifle shot, you are a real foreign friend, happy birthday
00:14to you.
00:15I spent my childhood in Jaipur and during the holidays we used to go to our mother father's
00:22place, Tonk.
00:24And during the time of Tonk, did you want to do something like acting?
00:31No, there was nothing like that, at that time we were just exploring.
00:34The thing is that there, among the kids, we used to try to make up stories,
00:41in the afternoon everyone is sleeping, in the afternoon there is a room which is empty and cold,
00:47so we used to go there and do some mischief and make up stories, we used to make up a beard
00:54like this, that I have a beard.
00:56So that was a small fascination, a fascination of stories has always been there since childhood.
01:00It was the time of teenagers, when cinema itself made me want to do this.
01:06Some actors have a hand in it, Naseer sir has a very big hand in it.
01:11When Naseer sir did it, I felt that this world can be explored a lot and I can immerse myself in it.
01:19What was the age when you did it?
01:21I think I must have been 16 years old, 14 or 16 years old, I think.
01:27Mithun Chakraborty's Mrigya was released at that time and someone said that I look like you,
01:33so I got a kind of assurance that I am good.
01:39Mr. Irfan, tell us that after reaching Mumbai, you spent a long time looking for your kind of films.
01:49So was it something like this that you were doing it and you were tired and you were losing?
01:55The thing that Disha was giving me was that I wanted to enjoy myself on screen and that was a period of training.
02:05Even after National School of Drama, you kept trying to make yourself easy in front of the camera.
02:11So that didn't let me wander too much.
02:15I was stuck in this that when will I do such a thing that I will feel good to see myself.
02:23The sense of defeat was never like that.
02:25You have always been there to conquer something.
02:29I keep looking for stories.
02:31I wish stories would find me.
02:33Because my story is my religion as long as I am telling stories.
02:37And I am still looking for my story.
02:41How much time do you give to your wife and children while doing all this?
02:49I mean, I try my best to see the children growing up there.
02:53And whenever there is such a long schedule, I cry a lot.
02:59It is a big mistake to see the children grow up.