I have not met anybody with the kind of unbridled and pure passion that Rashid [Irani] had for cinema,” recalls Smriti Kiran, artistic director, MAMI and Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival about the veteran film critic and curator who passed away this year. As a tribute to him, The Young Critics Lab — set up in 2010 by Jio MAMI to foster young writing talent in the field of cinema — was renamed the Rashid Irani Young Critics Lab.

Rashid Irani