'It's like losing a brother': Irrfan Khan remembered by Asif Kapadia

When Kapadia cast a 34-year-old Khan in The Warrior, it ignited both men's careers - and sparked a lifelong friendship. Here, the director pays tribute to a man of 'immense dignity and charisma' I first met Irrfan Khan 21 years ago in a cheap beach hotel in Mumbai. I was 28 and casting my debut film, The Warrior, about a conflicted enforcer in feudal India. None of the actors I'd seen were right. I'd tell them I wanted to make a western, a mix of Robert Bresson and Sergio Leone, and their eyes w...