Renowned filmmakers like Rajkumar Hirani, Amol Gupte, Nishikant Kamat, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Tanuja Chandra, Meghna Gulzar, Ravi Udyawar, among others attended the special screening of Blackmail

Bollywood filmmakers at the special screening of Blackmail

After the special screening for Irrfan’s Piku co-star Amitabh Bachchan, the makers of Blackmail organised a special screening for Bollywood directors. Renowned filmmakers like Rajkumar Hirani, Amol Gupte, Nishikant Kamat, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Tanuja Chandra, Meghna Gulzar, Ravi Udyawar, Rensil D’Silva, Sudhir Mishra, Sriram Raghavan, Soumik Sen, Pradeep Sarkar and Mukesh Chabbra attended the special screening.

Impressed by the film, the directors shared their thoughts on the Abhinay Deo directorial. Meghna Gulzar tweeted saying, “#Blackmail is twisted and terrific! Unguessable till the last turn. Superlative work by the entire team!”.

The director further added, “Dev had me. Emotionally entangled and evil with even flourish! There’s nothing you can’t do Sir.. @irrfank #Blackmail”.

Filmmaker Soumik Sen also took to Twitter to share, “The genius of @irrfank in complex shades of Career best turn from @arunodaysingh7,usual brilliance from @IamKirtiKulhari @divyadutta25, a stunning score makes #blackmail a winner.”.

The Lipstick Under My Burkha director ALankrita Shrivastava also shared, “Had so much fun watching #blackmail. It is mad and crazy and unexpected! Congratulations @AbhinayDeo and @priyagupta999!”.

The directors posed for a picture perfect moment capturing the creative minds of the industry in a single frame. Earlier Irrfan had expressed that he wishes ‘Blackmail’ to get the best release possible, hence the makers have decided to release the film as scheduled and it will hit the screens this Friday.

Blackmail has received immense appreciation ever since the teaser of the film released. The teaser showed Irrfan running around the streets wearing nothing more than a pair of boxer shorts with his face covered by a bra-and-panty paper bag. The hilarious trailer of the Irrfan-starrer further piqued the interest of the audience in which the question raised was: “What will you do if you find your wife in bed with someone else?”

The quirky trailer promises a madcap comedy starring an ensemble cast of Irrfan Khan, Kirti Kulhari, Divya Dutta, Arunoday Singh, Omi Vaidya, Anuja Sathe, Pradhuman Singh Mall, Gajraj Rao, among many others. Produced by T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar and RDP Motion Pictures’ Abhinay Deo, ‘Blackmail’, directed by Abhinay Deo, is slated to release on April 6, 2018.

Also read: Amitabh Bachchan showers praises on Irrfan starrer BlackMail

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Being a celebrity means that you and your life is always in the limelight and everything is up for speculation, and most of the time, it is still bearable and okay, but sometimes people cross a line.

Yes, they chose this life but people also need to respect their privacy, after all they are also human, and not everything is supposed to be shared with the public.

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Recently, Irrfan Khan revealed that he’s suffering from a rare disease, probably because he appreciates his fans so much that he wanted to share everything with them, the good and the bad. But, the problem is that this was all he shared, but rumours started flying and there were way too many different theories since he posted his news on Twitter.

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— Irrfan (@irrfank) March 5, 2018

Yes, everyone is curious and everyone wants to support him, but this is a private matter and he will share more when he feels the time is right. Making up random stories and starting rumours about different diseases he is suffering from just seems very insensitive right now.

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Soon after his tweet, rumours of him having a brain tumour went viral. Even after clarifications from his friend, the speculation continued and everyone was just focussing all their energy on the wrong thing.

It seems like the rumours got so bad that Irrfan’s wife, Sutapa Sikdar has finally spoken about the issue. She wrote a heartfelt message for everyone on Facebook, addressing everyone’s concerns, thanking them for all the prayers and apologising for all the secrecy (which she doesn’t need to, tbh).

Here’s the post:

This is so well put, hopefully everyone will give the family time and privacy to deal with it. This is a time to just pray for him and he has doctors to figure out his condition, so no doesn’t need media and random people on Twitter to diagnose him.

Actor Irrfan Khan says his wife Sutapa Sikdar, who also produced his movie “Qarib Qarib Singlle”, is his best friend

Irrfan Khan

Actor Irrfan Khan says his wife Sutapa Sikdar, who also produced his movie “Qarib Qarib Singlle”, is his best friend. “My wife is my best friend and we discuss everything. We often talk about my work and she thought producing a film like ‘Qarib Qarib Singlle’ would be great as the love story was unique,” Irrfan said in a statement.

“We studied in the same film school and my wife has a better understanding of many things than me, including performances. She has a lot of creative energy, which translated beautifully in this film and its story,” he added. The movie, directed by Tanuja Chandra and starring Parvathy, will be showcased on &pictures on February 17. It is about two people with opposite personalities and sensibilities who meet via an online dating app. Irrfan believes love can be found anywhere.

“Love can happen in the most unexpected ways to people. Some meet their partners and spouses through friends, an arranged marriage set-up or matrimonial sites. A dating site is a cool platform to find someone who you think you’re compatible with. There shouldn’t be any stigma or any taboo around it,” he said.

However, he has an observation to make about the young generation that gets into a relationship very fast and the break up happens even faster. “Today’s generation is more impulsive than what we were. There is no peace in their life and most of them are impulsive decision makers. With time, they will all learn the importance of having that one special person with whom they can spend the rest of their life.”

Irrfan believes “if you really want to know a person, go on a journey”. “The masks come off and you can see their real nature,” he added.

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