Irrfan Khan, who starred in and co-produced prominent Bangladeshi director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s 2017 drama Doob: No Bed of Roses, has a reason to celebrate as his bilingual film is a contender in the foreign film category at the Oscars.

Selected by the Bangladesh Oscar Committee as the official selection from the Eastern country, the film revolves around the life of a renowned filmmaker who creates a scandal in Bangladesh when he leaves his wife to marry his daughter’s friend. The film premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2017 and is now headed to the 91st Academy Awards, in the Best Foreign Film category.

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“Irrfan is extremely happy to hear the news. It is an honour to be recognized by the jury and he is delighted that his film is getting the much-deserved acknowledgment at long last,” Irrfan’s spokesperson said.

“Obviously I am happy because No Bed of Roses is representing Bangladesh at the Oscars. I hope the film would find some love from the Academy voters. As for my collaboration with Irrfan, it would have been impossible to make this film without his involvement as an actor and co-producer! I share a wonderful relationship with him, on and off the set. I call him “poet” and he jokingly  corrects me saying "I m a poet with no words"  In this film, he actually expressed so many things with very little help of words and I’m glad to have collaborated with one of the finest actors of not just India but globally,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki said.

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Irrfan is currently undergoing treatment in the UK after being diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour.