We need to focus on children’s films: Irrfan Khan

After soaking in the success of Piku, Irrfan Khan is ready to embark on his next project, an international one this time. The actor has a role to play in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller, Inferno. In fact, he is just back from Budapest where the cast and crew met to familiarise themselves with each other.

Says Irrfan, “I met the director, Ron, and my co-stars Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones in Budapest. It was meant to be an opportunity for the entire team to get together and get to know each other.”

What does he know about his role? “I’ve read the book, so I know my character. But how much of it will remain in the film, I don’t know. I can tell you that my character has to do with the Intelligence. Although I am yet to figure out where my character is from. It’s not important to me. How does it matter where my character comes from?”

Irrfan has wrapped up another Hollywood project Jurassic World — the latest installment in the Jurassic Park series. He will take time off his schedule in India to attend the premiere in Paris or Los Angeles. “I will attend one of the two premieres since I don’t have time for both.”

Ruing the hectic schedules he says, “Nowadays, film promotion takes up a very large chunk of my time. It’s a challenge to be going through the exercise repeatedly.”

Anything he wants to work towards in particular? “We are not really making the kind of films that we should be for children. Hollywood films that they see have a kind of ferociousness about them. Our strength as a nation is completely different. We need to focus on children.”