Slumdog Millionaire star Irrfan Khan dies at 54

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Irrfan Khan&comma; a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India’s most well-known exports to Hollywood&comma; has died at the age of 54&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan died on Wednesday after he was admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital with a colon infection&comma; his spokesman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Irrfan was a strong soul&comma; someone who fought till the very end and always inspired everyone who came close to him&comma;”<&sol;em> a statement released by the actor’s team read&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan made his screen debut in the Academy Award-nominated 1988 drama Salaam Bombay&excl;&comma; a tale of Mumbai’s street children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The acclaimed actor was also involved in blockbusters such as Slumdog Millionaire&comma; which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He portrayed park executive Masrani in Jurassic World and also appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man and the adventure fantasy Life Of Pi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He worked with directors like Mira Nair&comma; Wes Anderson and Ang Lee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The actor was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine cancer in 2018 and underwent months of treatment in the UK&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I trust&comma; I have surrendered&comma;”<&sol;em> Khan wrote in a heartfelt note after he broke the news of his battle with cancer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan won a number of domestic film awards in India&comma; including a 2012 Indian National Film Award for best actor for his performance in Paan Singh Tomar&comma; a compelling tale of a seven-time national champion athlete who quit India’s armed forces to rule the Chambal ravines in central India&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan received an Independent Spirit Award for supporting actor in 2006 Indian-American drama The Namesake&comma; and a viewers’ choice award at Cannes in 2013 for his role in Indian romantic drama The Lunchbox&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">T 3516 &&num;8211&semi; &period;&period; just getting news of the passing of Irfaan Khan &period;&period; this is a most disturbing and sad news &period;&period; 🙏<br &sol;>An incredible talent &period;&period; a gracious colleague &period;&period; a prolific contributor to the World of Cinema &period;&period; left us too soon &period;&period; creating a huge vacuum &period;&period; <br &sol;>Prayers and duas 🙏<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Amitabh Bachchan &lpar;&commat;SrBachchan&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SrBachchan&sol;status&sol;1255387239330263041&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 29&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tributes came from Bollywood&comma; including from Amitabh Bachchan&comma; who said Khan was an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>incredible talent”<&sol;em> and <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a prolific contributor”<&sol;em> to cinema&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;left us too soon”<&sol;em>&comma; Bachchan wrote on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with the Associated Press in 2018&comma; Khan said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve seen life from a completely different angle&period; You sit down and you see the other side and that’s fascinating&period; I’m engaged on a journey&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khan’s last Bollywood movie&comma; Angrezi Medium&comma; a sequel to one of his biggest hits&comma; Hindi Medium &lpar;2017&rpar;&comma; was released before India went into lockdown in March because of the coronavirus pandemic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is survived by his wife&comma; television writer and producer Sutapa Sikdar&comma; and sons Babil and Ayan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e493442">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; 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