After the tragic demise of Sushant Singh Rajput, it could be seen that actress Kangana Ranaut has been continuously fighting for the late actor’s justice. In a recent interview with a newsportal, Kangana Ranaut explains why she is so vocal about seeking #JusticeForSushantSinghRajput.
Talking about the matter, she said, I have to admit that I was not following Sushant and his career. I don’t follow anybody. But my first reaction was shock, sheer disbelief. To me, he was (at that point) just another star, very promising and very talented. I would admit that at first, it looked like an impulsive thing that he might have done. I thought maybe because everyone is locked down, and this is a very unusual situation, so maybe that got to him? I was not thinking about all the layers.
Sushant and I, we never really crossed paths. But we were always really close, you know. For example, when he was new, we had a common friend called Sandip Ssingh. He even came to one of my birthdays I think, my 25th birthday, with Ankita. I remember speaking to Ankita that night and not him. Later, I knew that he was doing ‘Ram-Leela’, and then he did not do it. I used to get all the updates. Kamal Jain, who was the producer of ‘Manikarnika’, worked with Sushant in the Dhoni film also. Every now and then, he used to talk about Sushant. When I was learning horse riding, he used to say that he organised the training for Sushant also. He used to wake up at 4am and finish the training at 6am. Once at Kamal ji‘s office, I had reached and Sushant had just left. There was some kind of connection, but nothing direct.
(After his death) I called Kamal ji, and I spoke to him. And Ankita being a dear friend, I spoke to Ankita. I spoke to Sandip. Because that’s what you do, right? You try and understand what just happened.
Kamal ji told me that Sushant spoke to him days ago and said, ‘Make a big film with me. Kamal ji, you have to announce a big film with me. Everybody has banned me.’ That’s what he said to Kamal Jain. From there, I was very curious about this situation.
And then I understood his personality. I asked Kamal ji, how he was, I asked those regular questions – was he into drugs or a sex maniac as people had portrayed him? I had read blinds about him that he is having sex with anything that moves. And Kamal ji was like, ‘What rubbish! He was a genius, no drugs, he was very health conscious’ and all of that. And one thing he said – that he was very ambitious. But he wasn’t thick-skinned. If you are ambitious and thin-skinned, how is that gonna work?
When I spoke to Ankita, she said right from the beginning, there was so much humiliation that he could not take it. This is how she summed it up. She said that I knew this boy since he was working in serials, he became a top actor there, and then he did auditions after auditions, rejections after rejections, and then he got into the big bad world of Bollywood. (Then) every filmmaker wanted this boy from Bihar, they were fighting for his dates and he was so grounded. But one thing that she also said about him was that he was not thick-skinned. He would sit on Twitter when he was new and would fight with fans, asking ‘why did you think that about me? Why did you say that about me? I am not this person that you are saying.’ Ankita told me that she used to tell him ki abhi ye toh hoga na. Everybody will have their perception of you, why are you so bothered about it? He just could not take that, he could not take what people thought about him. She said, over a period, the bad PR, the ganging up, the public humiliation, he just could not take it. He has had enough – that’s what she said.
I want to be very honest. I can’t say that Sushant came and told me all this but I gathered my perception of him and I understood that he was trapped, jaise Abhimanyu ko chakravyuh mein ghera jata hai. And a few personality traits of him did not work for him, one of which he mentioned, that he cannot express himself.
I spoke to Abhishek Kapoor ji and he said, ‘Kangana, woh shaheed ho gaya’. I am quoting these people because I cannot tell you the whole conversations, but everyone summed it up in their own way. Abhishek in his interviews said that he was not the same boy from Kai Po Che by the time of ‘Kedarnath’. He had changed. Woh ghut gaya tha, he said, he had changed, they had choked him way before he actually choked himself.
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