IFFI honours Irrfan Khan, Sutapa Sikdar and Babil Khan attends the film festival

As the 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) decided to pay homage to Irrfan by screening his cult classic, Paan Singh Tomar, today (January 22), the late actor's family members, son Babil Khan and wife Sutapa Sikdar, attended the event. Babil took to Instagram to share photos of himself with his mom from the festival in Goa.

Babil Khan posted three photos of himself from IFFI, Goa, along with his mom Sutapa Sikdar. In one of the photos, the mother-son duo is seen posing in front of an IFFI poster. The next two pictures are from the IFFI stage where they are being felicitated. They can be seen



holding IFFI trophies in their hands. Sutapa also spoke about Irrfan and their love story on the stage.

Sharing the photos, Babil wrote, "Beautiful catharsis at @iffigoa #IFFI2021 #iffi2021 (sic)."

To honour Irrfan, IFFI today screened the legendary actor's 2012 film Paan Singh Tomar. Trade analyst, Taran Adarsh, took to Twitter to inform Irrfan's fans about the screening.

Along with Irrfan, the film festival is also paying homage to actors like Sushant Singh Rajput, Rishi Kapoor, Soumitra Chatterjee and Chadwick Boseman by screening their movies, Kedarnath, Bobby, Charulata and 42, respectively.