While cleaning out old messages from his phone, Babil Khan found WhatsApp messages from his father Late Irrfan Khan. In an Instagram post, Babil shared the screenshot saying that he was 'almost about to text him back', "This was intense on a level I could not explain. I was deleting unnecessary chats from my WhatsApp and I found this. For f**k’s sake. I was almost about to text him back just for the thrill of feeling like ‘mera bhai idhar hi hai mere saath'"
The last visible message is from Irrfan, sent on 17th March 2020, that said, "Call back it's very urgent."
Late actor Irrfan Khan passed away on 29th April last year because of a colon infection after battling neuroendocrine cancer since 2018. Son Babil Khan regularly posts tributes to Irrfan on his Instagram.
(At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. Because the truth is worth it.)