Word: irrfan
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...many artists in India actually work. Their world is the world - not just India - and they proudly learn, borrow and are influenced by everything around them. That was obvious in the Japanese taiko drummers pounding behind Rahman on his Oscar-nominated song "O Saya." And anyone who noticed Irrfan Khan as Jamal's interrogator ought to have a look at his other, much more substantial role in A Mighty Heart, playing a Pakistani police captain opposite an American superstar in a British film...
...Indian talent." In addition to Rahman and Pookutty, many of the film's cast are already celebrated, respected names in Indian cinema. Gulzar, who won the Oscar for best original song along with Rahman for Jai Ho, is a venerated writer, poet and lyricist; actors Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan are among the best in the trade. "I'm super-happy for Rasool [Pookutty], but Rahman and Gulzar are already well-known. They don't need an Oscar to validate their talent," says Mumbai-based assistant film director Tony Deol. Nevertheless, Deol says that alone, all the first-rate Indian...
...these characters are, interesting as the events of its chase often are, we cannot escape the fact that the movie's ending is known to us, that history's course cannot be altered. We can (and do) admire Mariane's courage, the patient tenacity of the "The Captain" (Irrfan Khan) the lead Pakistani investigator, the sweetness of Dan Futterman's portrayal of Danny Pearl. But what we have, in essence, is a kind of police procedural in which the procedures do not bear fruit...
...alumnus of the stage, 38-year-old actor Irrfan Khan establishes his big-screen credentials with his star turn as the title character in Maqbool. Khan spoke to TIME's South Asia bureau chief, Alex Perry...
...Bollywood: Bhardwaj has but one feature film to his directorial credit, Makdee, a children's movie about a witch who can turn people into animals. Rather than Bollywood's customary priority of abs, busts and nifty dance steps, he deliberately chose actors with theatrical training for the Macbeth retake. Irrfan Khan plays the violent but vulnerable Maqbool, a killer ultimately consumed by his conscience, and it's a performance that fulfills the promise Khan demonstrated in 2001's The Warrior. Pankaj Kapoor as the paunchy Mafia don borrows heavily (and successfully) from Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Bollywood grandees...