One more Irrfan Khan starrer still to release

17 May 2020

While we mourn the going of one of Indias finest actors and the fact that we will never see him again, there is a smudge of sunshine in this year of darkness.IrrfanKhan has one film, and international project if you please, waiting for release. It is a film called Mantra Song of Scorpions. Its about a young woman-singer deep in the desert ofRajasthan, who sings and heals people. Due to certain circumstances, when she realizes that her life has been poisoned by the man in her life, she then has to go on a kind of mystical journey to find a song that will heal her.The renowned Iranian actress,GolshiftehFarahaniseen in the new ChrisHemsworth starrerExtraction, is cast in the protagonists role. Waheeda Rehmanappears in a brief but important role.AnupSinghs debut filmQissain 2015 also featuredIrrfanKhan and was hugely acclaimed.This is what Anuphad to say aboutIrrfanas an actor: I believe as an actor he comes to a role in the same way that a refugee comes to a new country. Just like a refugee,Irrfanseeks to understand the complexities of the new circumstances and his relationship with it and his own growth within the new space. That is what makes him the immensely innovative actor that he is. For instance, let me tell you about how helearnedfor himself to speak the PunjabidialogueofQissaand developed his approach to the character of Umber Singh. At one point,Irrfanstopped learning the lines by rote. He began to hum for himself the feeling of the scene. He would hum a phrase and then another, seeking the inner, hidden emotion of the character at that moment. And, then, slowly, he would allow the words to emerge within the music of the moment he had created for himself. His quest remained to find the lilt and the rhythm of the language and then the words would rise spontaneously, and authentic within the scene.