It came as a shock to India when Irrfan Khan announced that he was suffering from neuroendocrine tumour and needed to go to the United Kingdom for treatment. Since then, the actor has been occasionally sharing updates and his battle with the illness.
Recently, according to an entertainment portal, Irrfan was in India for two days, but did not want anyone to know about it, said his publicist. He made a brief visit to the Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple in Nashik, where he performed a havan with pundits. Following this two-day visit, he quickly returned to London.
In several interviews, the actor has often spoken about how his illness and how it had a drastic impact on him and his perception of the world.
“It has put me in a rapture state. Initially I was shaken. I didn’t know. I was very, very vulnerable. But slowly, there is another way to look at things that is much more powerful and much more productive and much more healthy and I just want people to believe that nature is much more trustworthy and one must trust that,” he said.
He said he can approach things in a different manner and he feels thankful for that. “The problem with me initially was everyone was speculating whether I would be out of this disease or not. Because it’s not in my hands. Nature will do whatever it has to do. What is in my hand, I could take care of that. And it offers so much that you feel thankful. The way it opens windows to look at life. I would have never reached that state even if I had done meditation for 30 years, I wouldn’t have reached it.”
Irrfan was last seen in the film Karwaan, which starred Dulquer Salmaan and Mithila Palkar.
