Actor Babil Khan made headlines on Sunday after he shared a video on his social media in the wee hours ranting about how rotten Bollywood and its people were. He even broke down on camera, and dropped names like those of Arjun Kapoor, Ananya Panday, Shanaya Kapoor, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and others.
In the now-deleted video, a dishevelled Babil was seen crying inconsolably as he said, "There are people like Shanaya Kapoor, Ananya Pandey and Arjun Kapoor and Siddhant Chaturvedi and Raghav Juyal and Adarsh Gourav...They're so, so many more names. Bollywood is so fu*ked. Bollywood is so so rude (sic)."
Soon after, he not just deleted the video but his entire Instagram handle without an official statement, and it left his fans concerned. Some also recalled how it was only a few months back when his mother Sutapa Sikdar had revealed that the young lad was "almost in depression".
During an event in Lucknow in December 2024, Sutapa had shared how Babil was under constant pressure and scrutiny due to the relentless comparisons with his late father, the legendary Irrfan Khan.
Opening up on the 26-year-old actor's mental health, Sutapa had said, "There’s a lot of pressure on Babil, and I am not okay with it. This pressure should not be there, Irrfan never had that pressure and when you don’t put any pressure on yourself, your individuality comes out. It’s not only about work but also about losing the father figure, he is almost in depression. Top that with this stress and compression all the time. As a mother, I feel, 'Please leave my child alone'."
"Also, he is very vulnerable and does not have a fighter's spirit. His father was very strong and so am I, but genetically it must have come from somewhere," she had added.
Irrfan Khan passed away on April 29, 2020, after a two-year battle with a neuroendocrine tumour. On his fifth death anniversary recently, Babil had shared a moving post, expressing how he would be reunited with his father one day.
On the work front, Babil made his acting debut with Qala, alongside Triptii Dimri, and the film had released on Netflix. After starring in shows and films like Friday Night Plan and The Railway Men, he was recently seen in Logout, which was a film based on the dark world of cybercrime.
Babil will be next seen in Shoojit Sircar’s production The Umesh Chronicles.
