Irrfan's wife Sutapa Sikdar has responded to a fan who called her late husband's grave a 'trash dumpster'. On Monday night, her son Babil also shared two photos of Irrfan's grave along with a long caption, addressing fans' concern over Irrfan's unkempt grave. It all started when Irrfan's D-Day co-star Chandan Roy Sanyal visited the late actor's tomb recently and shared images on Instagram. However, some fans of Irrfan commented on the condition of his tomb. Assuring fans that Irrfan is resting in peace, Chandan had stated, “Irrfan Khan's tomb is not fancy but has a vibration of its own, just like the actor. It is sort of nicely molding with nature.”
Now, Sutapa replied to a fan who wrote on Facebook, "Dear Sutapa, recently I saw a photo of Irrfan bhai’s graveyard. I was heart broken, cause it’s only few months and his graveyard looks like trash dumpster. I thought you planted ‘Rat ki Rani', since he loved that plant. What happened? If the photo is real, then it’s a crying shame. If you have a real recent photo of the graveyard, please Post it."
Sutapa in her response wrote that she isn’t allowed to visit Irrfan’s grave, and has instead created a shrine for the actor at Igatpuri. She wrote, “Women are not allowed in Muslim graveyards.hence I have planted the raat Ki Rani in Igatpuri where I have a memory stone of his...where I have buried his fav things .I own that place Where I can sit for hours without any one telling me I can’t sit next to him. He is there in his spirit. But that doesn’t mean the graveyard shouldn’t be tended ..but as far as how is a very questionable thing... The wild plants grass have grown in rains.. It’s wild and beautiful is what I saw in the photo you are mentioning..its rains and plants come and they wither in the next season..and then one can clean it. Why should everything be exactly as per definition.. And the plants have grown may be for a purpose look closely.”
Babil also talked about the same in the post and said Irrfan 'always always wished to be surrounded by the grass and the plants and the trees'. Taking to Instagram, Babil dedicated a post to Irrfan as shared photos of his tomb and wrote, "Baba liked it wild, Ayaan is staying strong :* mamma recently wrote about the wilderness around when some of his fans were worried that it looked unkempt, I need you to understand, he always always wished to be surrounded by the grass and the plants and the trees. Waste and plastic is always removed from that wilderness. Here’s what my beautiful mamma wrote: “Women are not allowed in Muslim graveyards. Hence, I have planted the raat Ki Rani in Igatpuri where I have a memory stone of his...where I have buried his fav things .I own that place Where I can sit for hours without any one telling me I can’t sit next to him. He is there in his spirit. But that doesn’t mean the graveyard shouldn’t be tended ..but as far as how is a very questionable thing... The wild plants grass have grown in rains.. It’s wild and beautiful is what I saw in the photo you are mentioning..it rains and plants come and they wither in the next season..and then one can clean it. Why should everything be exactly as per definition.. And the plants have grown may be for a purpose look closely.”"
Irrfan passed away on April 29 after a two-year-long battle with cancer. He is survived by wife Sutapa Sikdar and two sons -- Babil and Ayaan.
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