Irrfan Khan marries his daughter’s friend in English-Bengali bilingual film No Bed of Roses?
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Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; November 15, 2016)
Mirror (March 3) was the first to report that Irrfan Khan will feature
in internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Farooki’s
next, an English-Bengali bilingual titled No Bed of Roses (Doob in
Bengali). “The story revolves around two families who find the deeper
meanings of love in the wake of a tragedy. The film notes that death
isn’t necessarily always a loss,” producer Himanshu Dhanuka had earlier
revealed.
Mirror has now learnt that the 49-year-old actor’s character in the film has allegedly been inspired by Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and filmmaker, Humayun Ahmed, who after his breakthrough first novel in 1972, Nondito Noroke, went on to write over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of them bestsellers across the border. He also made eight films based on his own novels which bagged him six National Awards in his home country. Nobel laureate, economist Muhammad Yunus, described his impact, saying, “Humayun’s works are the most profound and most fruitful that literature has experienced since the time of Tagore and Nazrul.”
However, what could make No Bed Of Roses controversial is that it touches on the aspect of a scandalous second marriage. Ahmed was married to Gultekin Khan with whom he had three daughters, Nova, Shila and Bipasha, and a son, Nuhash. Shila went on to become a television and film actress. In 2003, he divorced Gultekin and two years later, married an actress Meher Afroz Shaon, who was years younger than him and was his daughter’s friend. The couple had two sons, Nishad and Ninit. Ahmed was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2011 and died a year later on July 19, 2012.
Irrfan heard the story in January and fascinated with Mostafa’s storytelling technique, immediately agreed to do the film. He shot for it in March in Dhaka and Siliguri.
“Irrfan plays a filmmaker in the film and his character too gets married a second time to his daughter’s friend. It is inspired by Humayun Ahmed but the makers have fictionalised it and christened him Javed Hasan to avoid controversies,” informs a source close to the project.
When Mirror contacted Farooki, he laughed, “Humayun Ahmed is a celebrated writer and I am a big fan. However, people will have to go to the theatre and watch the film to find out if Irrfan’s character is inspired by him. All I can say is as a filmmaker is that I take inspiration from life around me.”
Mirror (March 3) was the first to report that Irrfan Khan will feature
in internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Farooki’s
next, an English-Bengali bilingual titled No Bed of Roses (Doob in
Bengali). “The story revolves around two families who find the deeper
meanings of love in the wake of a tragedy. The film notes that death
isn’t necessarily always a loss,” producer Himanshu Dhanuka had earlier
revealed.Mirror has now learnt that the 49-year-old actor’s character in the film has allegedly been inspired by Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and filmmaker, Humayun Ahmed, who after his breakthrough first novel in 1972, Nondito Noroke, went on to write over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of them bestsellers across the border. He also made eight films based on his own novels which bagged him six National Awards in his home country. Nobel laureate, economist Muhammad Yunus, described his impact, saying, “Humayun’s works are the most profound and most fruitful that literature has experienced since the time of Tagore and Nazrul.”
However, what could make No Bed Of Roses controversial is that it touches on the aspect of a scandalous second marriage. Ahmed was married to Gultekin Khan with whom he had three daughters, Nova, Shila and Bipasha, and a son, Nuhash. Shila went on to become a television and film actress. In 2003, he divorced Gultekin and two years later, married an actress Meher Afroz Shaon, who was years younger than him and was his daughter’s friend. The couple had two sons, Nishad and Ninit. Ahmed was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2011 and died a year later on July 19, 2012.
Irrfan heard the story in January and fascinated with Mostafa’s storytelling technique, immediately agreed to do the film. He shot for it in March in Dhaka and Siliguri.
“Irrfan plays a filmmaker in the film and his character too gets married a second time to his daughter’s friend. It is inspired by Humayun Ahmed but the makers have fictionalised it and christened him Javed Hasan to avoid controversies,” informs a source close to the project.
When Mirror contacted Farooki, he laughed, “Humayun Ahmed is a celebrated writer and I am a big fan. However, people will have to go to the theatre and watch the film to find out if Irrfan’s character is inspired by him. All I can say is as a filmmaker is that I take inspiration from life around me.”
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