Exactly one year ago today on April 29th, Bollywood and the film world lost a very important member, veteran actor Irrfan Khan.
This day marks one year of his death anniversary so we’re here to remember 5 times the late actor won distinguished awards.
1. National Award – Best Actor
As mentioned by this report, Irrfan had won the National Award for ‘Best Actor’ in 2003. This was for his role in the movie ‘Paan Singh Tomar’.
2. Filmfares
Late actor Irrfan Khan won the Filmfare award four times for some of his most popular movies – ‘Haasil’ (2004), ‘Life in a… Metro’ (2008), ‘Paan Singh Tomar’ (2013) and ‘Hindi Medium’ (2018). Khan was nominated a total of six times throughout his career.
3. Man of the Year/Indian of the Year
In 2009, Irrfan Khan was GQ magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’. Following this honour, Irrfan was awarded with CNN-IBN’s ‘Indian of the Year’ for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry in 2011.
4. Padma Shri
2011 was definitely a good year for the actor as he was bestowed the fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, by then President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil. The award was for his outstanding contribution to the creative world.
5. International Awards
The National School of Drama graduate kept on receiving multiple international felicitations across the world – from Melbourne to Toronto and from Paris to New York, all through his career – namely for ‘The Namesake’ (2006), ‘Slumdog Millionare’(2008), New York (2010) ‘Paan Singh Tomar’ (2013), ‘The Lunchbox’ (2014), D-day (2014), Piku (2016) and Hindi Medium (2018).
