Writer Niren Bhatt wrote two stories — “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa” and “Spotlight” — in the anthology “Ray”, which was based on short stories of iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Bhatt says he had initially visualised late actor Irrfan Khan in the role of Musafir in “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa”. Eventually, Manoj Bajpayee played the character.
The segment “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa” is based on the short story “Barin Bhowmik-er Byaram”, and it features Gajraj Rao, Raghubir Yadav and Manoj Phawa along with Bajpayee.
“It is a little sensitive thing and I am opening my heart here. I want to be honest with what I have in mind. Firstly, no one would doubt when I say that Manoj bhai is one of the finest actors that the Indian film industry has currently. But, when I started writing — visualising Musafir, his body language, how he speaks and every other detail, in my mind Irrfan (Khan) bhai was there. Imagine he is mouthing those beautiful Urdu lines in his andaaz — that Irrfan Khan magic! By the time I finished writing Irrfan bhai left us. For me, it was like a piece of my heart was broken. Emotionally, somehow I could not get him out of my mind because when I conceived Musafir, I was visualising Irrfan bhai,” Bhatt told IANS.
