Currently in the midst of promoting No Land’s Man, his next with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, celebrated filmmaker Mostofa Farooqui recounts his association with Irrfan Khan. Farooqui, who collaborated with the late actor in No Bed of Roses (2017), reveals that he was keen to remake the director’s Bengali film, Ant Story (2013).

Farooqui tells mid-day, “Irrfan bhai wanted to make [Ant Story] in Hindi. I had made the film in Bengali under the name Piprabidya, and he bought the rights to it. 
All the payments were already made. He had seen it on Netflix.”