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Irrfan Khan's son Babil acknowledged that Sushant Singh Rajput's death has sparked discussions around the quality of films and treatment of artists.

On reflecting his father’s journey, says that the late actor’s attempts to improve the quality of Hindi cinema were often thwarted by the audience, who refused to outgrow the comfort of commercial films.

In a long Instagram post, Babil today described how Irrfan was defeated at the box-office by “hunks with six-pack abs delivering theatrical one-liners and defying the laws of physics and reality.”

Babil also wrote that before he went to London to study films, his father told him to make people abroad aware that Indian cinema was much more than “Bollywood”.
“He warned me that I’ll have to prove myself as Bollywood is seldom respected in world cinema and at these moments I must inform about the Indian cinema that’s beyond our controlled Bollywood. Unfortunately, it did happen. Bollywood was not respected, no awareness of 60’s – 90’s Indian cinema or credibility of opinion.”