Sushant Singh Rajput- Suicide or Murder, you decide.

 

The entertainment industry wasn’t even over yet with the deaths of legendary actors Rishi Kapoor and Irfan Khan, that they had to deal with the shocking news of Actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The young 34 years old actor was found dead in his Bandra's apartment on the afternoon of 14 June 2020. The actor apparently died by hanging himself in his room, as confirmed by Mumbai police but the reason for his death is not confirmed yet.

As per police investigation, the last dialed call was to his sister at around 9 am on Sunday. An hour later, he had a glass of juice and took his tablets to his room and locked himself. The police also added that the cook knocked several times on his door around 11:30 am to confirm the menu. When the cook and his two friends who were staying with him in the house didn’t get any response from him, they then called a key-maker to help them open the door. His friends then rang up his sister and the police when they found Sushant Singh Rajput hanging from the ceiling fan. Police took his body to Cooper hospital for the post-mortem and the reports stated that it was a suicide but his family has not agreed with this yet and demand more investigation into the matter. Police also stated that they found some medical reports of Sushant which proves that he was depressed and had been taking anti-depression medicines for the last 6 months on the other side his family says that he stopped taking anti-depressants 6 months back. Police also stated that no suicide note was found at his home.

While his death remains a mystery, the whole industry mourns his death, a lot of celebrities paid their tribute to the actor. The actor was having a rough patch in life, as stated by the film director-producer Karan Johar, film producer Mukesh Bhatt, hairstylist Sapna Bhavani to even TV star Arjun Bijlani. Not only his close one but a lot of other people took on Instagram and twitter to shed a light on his state of mind. His last post on Instagram also shows the emptiness in his life as he shared his picture with his mother, who passed away in 2002 when Sushant was a just teenager.

Sushant Singh Rajput funeral was performed on Monday at Vile Parle crematorium in the presence of his family and few friends. Some of Sushant’s friends from the industry also attended- Kriti Sanon, his Chhichore co-stars Varun Sharma and Shraddha Kapoor, actor Vivek Oberoi and director Abhishek Kapoor along with his wife.

Mr. Rajput’s TV star Krystle D’Souza also attended his funeral, his co-star Raj Kumar Rao and one of his very close friends Rhea Chakraborty. ANI reports that Ms. Chakraborty will be interviewed by the police as part of their investigation. Ekta Kapoor also make her presence to tribute the actor.

He started his career in the entertainment industry from a small screen and took his talent to the big screen of Bollywood which is nothing less than a fairy tale, and a dream come true. Sushant Singh Rajput started his acting career on television, where he was best known for his role Manav Deshmukh, in “Pavitra Rishta,” a soap opera in 2009 that telecasted on Zee TV. After leaving the show in 2011, the actor made his debut in Bollywood in the year 2013 with a film based on a novel by Chetan Bhagat "Kai Po Che" and was awarded a Filmfare award for Best Male Debut. The actor also gave a host of mesmerizing performances like "Shudh Desi Romance"(2013),  "Detective By Mukesh Bakshy" (2015), but he was best known for his iconic biopic of MS Dhoni, former Indian Cricket Captain, and was also nominated the first time for Filmfare award for  Best Actor for his brilliant and hard-working performance. It was this brilliant performance of the Actor that made him a megastar and got him a huge fan base.  He performed in a way that people went in to watch the movie as Dhoni fan but came out of the theatre as Sushant's fan.

He also gave some commercially successful films like "Kedarnath"(2018) and "Chhichore "(2019). Apart from this Rajput was also involved in various social ventures like sushant4education to help young students.

He did a movie Chhichore in which he delivers a message,

“Hum haar-jeet, success-failure mein itna ulajh gaye hai ... ki zindagi jeena bhool gaye hai ... zindagi mein agar kuch sabse zyada important hai ... toh wo khud hai zindagi..”

Despite giving such a beautiful message that life is more important than anything else, why did he choose to commit suicide over a living life?

Before coming to Mumbai, he had 3 dreams which were, working with Yash raj films, Pepsi commercial, and to be the cover page of Filmfare magazine.  But the question here arises is despite achieving all this and fulfilling all his dreams why did Sushant Singh Rajput leave the world like this?

One of the reasons behind his death is to be believed that he was never praised by the industry, they never accepted him. Industry forced him to realize he’s worthless which triggers his mind badly and made him feel he is never going to be a part of the industry. Even Rajput also stated in some of his interviews and social media posts that he has no godfather in this industry that even after doing a lot of hard work the industry never acknowledged him.

Is the reason Nepotism and groupism in the film industry that led Sushant Singh Rajput to take such a big step or there is something that we are missing?

By: Mahima Roukhar