Late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan is expected to make his Bollywood debut soon after graduating from his film school in London. Following his father’s footsteps, Babil has been sharing several details about his passion for acting on social media. Talking about it, today he revealed a glimpse of Irrfan’s diary where he used to jot down acting notes for him.

Sharing a video of the same, Babil wrote, “I just found this book in Baba’s cupboard that I had given him when I was like 12 (he used to hate it when I used to call him ‘Dad’ but whilst puberty global westernisation was beginning to ripen) He had been writing notes on acting for me in it that I think he was going to teach me after film school, so I guess I have just found the ‘Book of Eli’.”

Sharing some insights from the pages, he added, “I’ll share with you the first few notes cause I want you to think I’m nice :-1. The intent – general but specific emotion like displacement, if you are unable to identify with a specific situation. 2. The text is holy in context eg. the woman in the man, self-pity, sexual politics etc. 3. Follow the action of the text sincerely and the required emotion will arise – the intention of the lines are to tell a story and not to pass information. 4. Drama has to be created, it cannot be represented or portrayed like a fact.”

“If you don’t understand some things, welcome to the club :* (I’m here feeling like I’m decrypting hyroglifics from scratch. The rest is SO confusing, can’t even ask him.)” he signed off.

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Earlier, Babil had drooped some hints about his film debut. He shared on social media, “I know it’s been a minute. When my superstitions allow me to, I will reveal what I’ve been busy with, but there’s some stuff cookin’”. He added, “Anyway, since I’m obviously extremely frightened on having started my journey in Indian cinema without any formal training on acting and 8 years too early, I often calm my anxieties by looking at baba’s pictures from NSD and earlier films.”