New Delhi, April 30 -- Oh, we forgot the camera.Remember this journey we took together till we reached land's end and there was nowhere to go." That was Irrfan Khan, playing teacher-father Ashok Ganguli in The Namesake, asking his onscreen son to relish life's best moments that are meant to be felt so deep within that no minute detail could ever be missed for a lifetime. And quite a journey we had with him through the years that saw him emerge as the "real Khan" who made everyday Indian maleness so profoundly delicate, believable, both loveable and abominable at times, but most important of all acceptable and acknowledged, warts and all.

His was a strength in upholding life's vulnerabilities and living with them. But beneath the twitch o...