For Jaideep Ahlawat, he owes his career and success to Irrfan Khan. On the stalwart first death anniversary, Jaideep, in a heart-to-heart conversation with PeepingMoon, decoded Irrfan's craft and detachment from success, how the late actor's body of work is like research material for budding actors, the irreparable loss in world cinema and why Irrfan, in Jaideep's eyes, is immortal.

Jaideep, during the exclusive conversation, broke down remembering Irrfan and while talking about his equation with his son Babil I. Khan.

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Irrfan, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour in 2018, passed away on April 29, 2020, due to colon infection.