3. He did American TV before it became too mainstream!

The American premium cable and television network, owned by Time Warner , HBO is the oldest and longest operating premium service in the US, that was launched in 1965. Even when it was just International, and Bollywood hadn’t explored much of the Hollywood coast, Irrfan managed to bag a drama series called ‘ In Treatment’ on the renowned channel which released in 2008, where in season three he was seen playing along the character of ’Sunil’ who was a retired math professor from Bengal who was in grief about his wife’s death.