The Great Irrfan Khan
Photograph for TIME by Olivier Culmann / Tendance Floue
Basking in the Light
After watching Khan perform in Maqbool, a 2003 retelling of Macbeth, fellow actor Vipin Sharma recalled thinking, "This was something different in Indian cinema."
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