Late actor Irrfan’s son and aspiring actor Babil have said his mother Sutapa Sikdar sacrificed her career in order to let Irrfan work. The renowned actor, who represented India in Hollywood, died in April 2020, after his battle with neuroendocrine cancer.
Opening up about his mom Sutapa’s sacrifice, Babil revealed in an interview, “She sacrificed her career to raise us and make sure Baba’s work continued uninterrupted. And let me tell you, she’s a very ambitious woman. It takes a lot to put your ambitions aside for your partner, for your children. It must’ve killed her to do it and yet she did. Baba was Baba because Mumma was Mumma. He’d be nothing without her. And I don’t think she gets enough credit. Not even from Baba.”
He added that Irrfan realised Sutapa’s sacrifices only in his last days. “It was only after his sickness that he acknowledged the scale of her contribution towards his success.”
Babil will now be making his acting debut with Qala. The film also stars Tripti Dimri of Bulbbul fame. He will also be seen in a film on the Bhopal Gs Tragedy, The Railway Man.
Sutapa continues to support Babil just like she did Irrfan. During her appearance in the docu-series Tarader Shesh Tarpan, Sutapa said, “I have never seen a man in my entire life working so hard, even my son, who is getting ready to walk on his father’s path, asks me what he used to do, and I always tell him that your father used to work 10 times harder than you do.”