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Irrfan Khan's son Babil acknowledged that Sushant Singh Rajput's death has sparked discussions around the quality of films and treatment of artists.

On reflecting his father�s journey, says that the late actor�s attempts to improve the quality of Hindi cinema were often thwarted by the audience, who refused to outgrow the comfort of commercial films.

In a long Instagram post, Babil today described how Irrfan was defeated at the box-office by �hunks with six-pack abs delivering theatrical one-liners and defying the laws of physics and reality.�

Babil also wrote that before he went to London to study films, his father told him to make people abroad aware that Indian cinema was much more than �Bollywood�.
�He warned me that I�ll have to prove myself as Bollywood is seldom respected in world cinema and at these moments I must inform about the Indian cinema that�s beyond our controlled Bollywood. Unfortunately, it did happen. Bollywood was not respected, no awareness of 60�s � 90�s Indian cinema or credibility of opinion.�