Wouldve been impossible to make Doob No Bed of Roses without Irrfan: Director

By: IANS | Mumbai | Published: September 24, 2018 7:59..

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By: IANS | Mumbai | Published: September 24, 2018 7:59:54 pm Irrfan Khan starrer Doob: No Bed of Roses is Bangladeshs Oscar entry in the best foreign language film category. Related News

Doob: No Bed of Roses, Bangladeshs Oscar entry in the best foreign language film category, would not have been possible without Indian actor Irrfan Khan, says the movies director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.

The 2017 bilingual drama stars Irrfan, who has also co-produced it.

Irrfan, who is currently undergoing treatment for neuroendocrine tumour in London, is extremely happy that the Bangladesh Oscar Committee has chosen “Doob” to represent the country at the Academy Awards.

The actors spokesperson said in a statement on Irrfans behalf: “It is an honour to be recognised by the jury and he is delighted that his film is getting the much deserved acknowledgement at long last.”

Farooki said: “I am happy because No Bed of Roses is representing Bangladesh at the Oscars. I hope the film would find some love from the Academy voters. As for my collaboration with Irrfan, it would have been impossible to make this film without his involvement as an actor and co-producer.

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“I share a wonderful relation with him, on and off the set. I call him poet and he jokingly corrects me saying Im a poet with no words. In this film, he actually expressed so many things with very little help of words and I am glad to have collaborated with one of the finest actors of not just India, but the world.”

In the movie, Irrfan plays a successful filmmaker facing a midlife crisis when he has a tryst with his daughters childhood friend, causing a national scandal.

The film walked on a path full of thorns as it was banned in Bangladesh on the grounds that it might be based on revered real-life author and filmmaker Ahmed, who divorced his wife of 27 years and married an actress 33 years his junior.

The ban was eventually lifted and the film released in October 2017 in Bangladesh, France, India and Australia.