Irrfan Khan: If you ask about me getting my own biography, I cannot do it
| Oct 27, 2017, 11:48 IST
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been making the headlines for quite some time now, owing to the scandalous excerpts from his biography 'An Ordinary Life: A Memoir'. While Nawaz was busy fighting a war of words with Niharika Singh, another actor was asked if he would like to get a biography written about him. We're talking about none other than actor Irrfan Khan.
Irrfan brushed off the idea and stated, "If you ask about me getting my own biography, I cannot do it. Because for me, to go around praising myself is the most boring thing to do.” He added, “For the last four years, Penguin publishers are after me to write my story. They are now exhausted trying.” When asked what was stopping him, he replied, “I don’t want someone sensationalising episodes of my life and writing about it that way. Then getting people to talk about it and making it news, will be the last thing I would do.”
He also stated that the only way to get him to be a part of a biography would be to move the focus from him. “I cannot be at the centre of it. If I get someone who will write it for me, without me, where I just happen to be and they concentrate more on my times, I will definitely be interested.” He further added, “I am from a feudal background, we used to manage in a one-bedroom-hall house...what my father used to do and how things slowly happened — if somebody can have a take on that, I would love to see that. But it should not be about me.”
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Irrfan brushed off the idea and stated, "If you ask about me getting my own biography, I cannot do it. Because for me, to go around praising myself is the most boring thing to do.” He added, “For the last four years, Penguin publishers are after me to write my story. They are now exhausted trying.” When asked what was stopping him, he replied, “I don’t want someone sensationalising episodes of my life and writing about it that way. Then getting people to talk about it and making it news, will be the last thing I would do.”
He also stated that the only way to get him to be a part of a biography would be to move the focus from him. “I cannot be at the centre of it. If I get someone who will write it for me, without me, where I just happen to be and they concentrate more on my times, I will definitely be interested.” He further added, “I am from a feudal background, we used to manage in a one-bedroom-hall house...what my father used to do and how things slowly happened — if somebody can have a take on that, I would love to see that. But it should not be about me.”
(Also read: Irrfan Khan gets candid about sexual harassment against him in Bollywood)
Stay tuned for more updates.