Stranded abroad, Irrfan Khan attends mom's last rites over video conferencing

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan who is stranded abroad couldn't attend his mother Saeda Begum’s funeral in person due to nationwide lockdown but became a part of it over video conferencing.

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan paid his last respect to mother Saeda Begum via video conferencing. The actor lost his mother on Saturday morning. She was 95 and a resident of Jaipur.

Irrfan, who is out of the country, lost his mother and the loss is apparently even more irrepressible as he could not be part of her funeral due to nationwide lockdown.

However, reports suggest, the bereaved actor attended the funeral through video conferencing. Her last rites were performed on Saturday evening at Chungi Naka graveyard on the outskirts of Jaipur where only a few family members could make it to the funeral.

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Saeda Begum belonged to the Nawab family of Tonk, and was unwell for a long time and died due to natural causes. She resided in the Beniwal Kanta Krishna Colony in Jaipur.

Reacting to Khan's loss, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar, who worked with the actor in the 2015 film Piku said, "It's very sad. I have yet to talk to him, though. I will be calling him."