Overview
- Smriti Chauhan told the Digital Commentary channel that Irrfan Khan was in severe pain and visibly “shrinking” as filming progressed.
- The costume team added extensive padding and extra layers to his outfits, including padding inside a vest for summer sequences.
- Chauhan said Khan asked for specific warmers from a London brand, telling her he gets very cold.
- She recalled that filming was sometimes called off when he could not reach the set, and that his family stayed close as he took breaks to cope.
- The recollections, reported this week by Indian Express and Hindustan Times, revisit his last performance released days before his April 2020 death following a 2018 neuroendocrine tumour diagnosis.