I’m tasting life for the first time: Irrfan Khan on his battle with cancer

TIL Desk Bollywood/ In March this year, Irrfan Khan posted a tweet that shockingly announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare disease. The actor was diagnosed with high-grade neuroendocrine cancer.  The acclaimed Bollywood actor who has also straddled Hollywood has moved base to the UK for treatment. Three months on, Irrfan shares an account of his battle with cancer.

“It’s been quite some time now since I have been diagnosed with a high-grade neuroendocrine cancer. This new name in my vocabulary, I got to know, was rare, and due to fewer study cases, and less information comparatively, the unpredictability of the treatment was more. I was part of a trial-and-error game.

“I had been in a different game, I was travelling on a speedy train ride, had dreams, plans, aspirations, goals, was fully engaged in them. And suddenly someone taps on my shoulder and I turn to see. It’s the TC: “Your destination is about to come. Please get down.” I am confused: “No, no. My destination hasn’t come.” “No, this is it. This is how it is sometimes.”  “The suddenness made me realise how you are just a cork floating in the ocean with UNPREDICTABLE currents! And you are desperately trying to control it.