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After carving a niche for himself by playing unconventional roles, actor Irrfan Khan now wants to do a musical film. “I want to do action films, comedy films and I want to be part of a musical. I want to do a character who sings or plays something,” Irrfan said . After his recent release “Knock Out”, the actor has a bag full of films. He will soon be seen in “Paan Singh Tomar”, “Yeh Saali Zindagi”, “Saat Khoon Maaf” and “Thank You”.

Irrfan Khan began his career in Bollywood about one and a half decades ago with the film “Drishti”. Today he is known for his extremely candid acting and an impressive personality. The striking characters of films like “Maqbool” and the very recent “Life in a Metro”, he is none other than Irfan Khan. Having his roots in Jaipur, Irfan was studying for his M.A. degree while doing theatre simultaneously. He joined the NSD or the National School of Drama, and bagged a fellowship degree there in 1984. After completing his graduation, Irfan moved to Mumbai (then Bombay) to pursue a full fledged career in acting. Irfan survived initially by doing television and was given his 1st break into films by the renowned Mira Nair in the film “Salaam “Bombay”. But his role was edited out in the final copy. Even this did not deter this determined actor who went back to delhi to do theatre. In his 1st released film “Drishti”, Khan worked with stars like Dimple Kapadia and Shekhar Kapoor. Since then there...