Taking Things As They Come And Loving It: Irrfan Khan On Battling Cancer

Says this condition has tested me physically, emotionally and spiritually

Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 3rd August, 2018) Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan who is fighting cancer has opened up about his illness, saying that it has given him a whole new perspective of life.

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, the Hindi Medium star revealed how he found ways to look at things that are more powerful, productive and healthier.

“I’ve seen life from a completely different angle. You sit down and you see the other side and that’s fascinating. I’m engaged on a journey,” Irrfan said.

Speaking on his condition, its challenges and technicalities, the 51-year-old said, “There are challenges which life throws at you. But I have started believing in the way this condition has tested me, really, really tested me in all aspects — physical, emotional and spiritual…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 went on to say, “The problem with me initially was everyone was speculating on whether I would be out of this disease or not. Because it’s not in my hand. That’s nature that will do whatever it has to do. What is in my hand, I could take care of that. I would have never reached that state even if I had done meditation for 30 years. But this sudden jolt has put me into a platform where I could look at things in a completely different manner.”

About his treatment in London, Irrfan said, “I have had the fourth cycle of chemo.

And I have to have six cycles and then we need to have a scan. After the third cycle, the scan was positive. But we need to see after the sixth scan. And then we’ll see where it takes me. There’s no guarantee of life with anybody. My mind could always tell me to hang a kind of chip on your neck and say, ‘I have this disease and I could die in a few months or a year or two.’ Or I could just avoid this conversation completely and live my life the way it offers me. And it offers so much.”

On his future projects and his return to films, Irrfan shared that he is currently not looking at any scripts and he’s just enjoying life as it comes.

“I’m completely out of reading scripts,” he said, adding that “My days are unpredictable. I used to think my life would be like that, but I could never practice unpredictability and spontaneity. That has happened now…I take things as they come. And I’m loving this experience.”

“There was something missing in my life previously, And I think I was missing this spontaneity…life is so mysterious and has so much to offer, we don’t really try things. And I’m trying and I’m loving it. I’m in a really fortunate state,” the actor concluded.

Irrfan’s diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer earlier this year came as a shock for his fans but the actor has been taking the battle head on. More power to Irrfan for battling this disease, hope he makes a quick recovery!