Babil Khan who recently made his debut in the Netflix film Qala opposite Tripti Dimri avers that he has much to explore in this industry of showbiz. Director Anvita Dutt introduced Babil in the garb of Jgan who is a prodigy. He will be next seen in web series titled The Railway Men produced by Yash Raj Films.
In an interview with Indian Express, the actor said, “I don’t want to define myself because I am too young and inexperienced to know what I want or what I want to explore. I keep my mental state such that I am ready to adapt and explore… To see how I am changing, growing. I am here to explore everything. I am too young to know what I want to do.”
Son of late star Irrfan Khan, recalls being on the sets with his father, “I was raised on a film set. I would visit him on sets of Thank You, Talvar. On Qarib Qarib Singlle, I was a camera intern, so I watched him closely.
“Without knowing, your mind grasps experiences and it plays in a subconscious state. I would not say that I sat down and analysed him. I was learning just by watching him,” he averred.
“Once I was fed up (during his training period) with an actor as he wasn’t doing his scene properly and as a camera operator, I just paused it saying, ‘You are not doing what the director is asking you to do’, they threw me off the sets. I came back home in a grumpy manner and I told Baba that I want to be an actor. He said, ‘You are so screwed as you admitted that you want to be an actor!’,” he further said.
A sudden realization stuck him, “After he left, that realisation came that you cannot spend time fearing things that you want to achieve and it was like I have to do this and I love doing this.”
“He was aware of how good he was and the pressure I would face,” added Babil.
In the film Qala, he spoke about his character, “I related to Jagan’s innocence and I knew if I retain it with all the circus that was happening outside, then I can give some honesty to Jagan,” the young actor said.
He revealed that the director of the film went through a mini-heart attack after heard him sing. “I was singing in a western style but she looked for a solution. She would pick up specific songs from specific periods with a certain emotion and would send them to me and make me sing those songs. She mentioned, ‘You have to feel it and sing it.’”
Qala stars Tripti Dimri, Swastika Mukherjee, Amit Sial, Girija Oak, Abhishek Bannerjee and Swanand Kirkire. Backed by Karnesh Ssharma the film is now streaming on Netflix.
