Award winning director Meera Nair first met actor Irrfan Khan at a basement at the National School of Drama in Delhi, so that his 1988 film “Salam Bombay!” And vowed to return to him with a suitable part.
The two came together after 15 years for Khan’s memorable role in “The Nemkek” (2006), based on the book of Jhanha Lahiri.
Khan, who established himself as an actor with films like “Maqbool” (2003) (2003) and “Hasil” (2003), never went to America before filming for “The NameK”, something that Nair was helped in trying to maintain. “America’s newness” in his eyes.
“I loved that he never went to America because you almost can’t do that. I think you can act it, but only when you are really experiencing it. And he is very precious. He maintained that scene of this madness, “Nair said during a session at the Samanway Festival of India Habitat Center on Saturday.
In “The Namekk”, Khan and Tabu played Ashok and Ashima Ganguli, who were with the first generation migrants from West Bengal to the US.
Nair had planned to keep Khan and Tabu at Lahiri’s parents in New York, especially the actors to take Bengali immigrant pronunciation.
“He (Khan) did not live with Jhampa’s parents, he lived in a hotel in Times Square and is a crazy part of America, neon, madness, pub, everything on the road. But I introduced them . The first day for the slum’s parents, to meet them first, but secondly, for pronunciation, because I knew that he was not a Bengali, “the director remembered.
Nair wanted Jhampa’s father Amar Lahiri, who worked as a librarian in the US, should be the standard of Khan to pronounce his role in the film.
“… But then we had a Bengali cater on the set of ‘The NameK’ … slowly Istred to look like Irfan Cateror, who was very thick and very difficult to understand the Americans and anyone. So we were so Had to tone. Under the cactor and above the librarian, he said.
Like -As the shooting of the film went ahead, Khan went to the pronunciation Nair who wanted for the role.
“He was just so hungry, a porous and he wanted to do all that. But both of us tried to maintain America’s newness and America’s bizarre in his eyes, at least for the early part of the film,” Monsoon Wedding “said the director said.
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