With an acting career spanning over three decades, Irrfan Khan has been acknowledged as one of the finest actors to grace the halls of contemporary Indian cinema. Always hungry for good work, he pushed himself to his limits to deliver spellbinding performances in movies like Maqbool (2003), The Namesake (2006), Life in a ...Metro (2007), the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and the internationally acclaimed The Lunchbox (2013). He also featured in many commercially and critically successful films including Pan Singh Tomar (2012), which won him the National Film Award for Best Actor, Haider (2014), Piku (2015) and Hindi Medium (2017). Covering his National School of Drama days, to his nearly one-decade-long stint in television and his gradual ascent to a charismatic and much-lauded star in India and abroad, consummate film critic Shubhra Gupta offers a compelling account of Irrfan’s life and achievements. Drawing from interviews with key people Irrfan was close to, worked with, was influenced by – including Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Irrfan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar, Tillotama Shome, Irrfan’s best friend from the NSD Timangshu, Shoojit Sircar, Anurag Basu, Tabu, Anurag Kashyap, among many others – this book will be a collection of scintillating new interviews, with commentary from Shubhra herself, that will together offer a complex portrait of Irrfan the actor and the man.