Sushant Singh Rajput’s sudden demise in June 2020 left everyone shocked and numb. His death was followed by a series of controversies. While some alleged that the actor died by suicide, others claimed that it was a murder. During the investigation, several other angles including drug consumption was also probed. In a recent interview, director Dibakar Banerjee also talked about the events following Sushant’s death and argued that it opened “gates to mysery porn”. Banerjee worked with SSR on the 2015 film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy.
Dibakar Banerjee was speaking to Siddharth Kannan when he recalled Sushant as somebody who would “get invested in everything” and said, “He used to speak about everything, about science, sociology. He used to keep asking questions. I really liked that part of him. Everybody just loved being with him.”
The director argued that he feels sad because after Sushant passed away no foucs was given to mourning the loss of a young actor. He stated that people were more interested and gossips and that there was “no grief”.
“After he passed away, the kind of news that followed made me shirk away from everything. I was hearing so many things but no one was talking about how a young actor passed away. There was no grief, people were looking for some gossip in the story. After seeing that… I had to walk away from the situation because no one was saying that we are missing Sushant,” he said.
Dibakar questioned everyone for not talking about Sushant’s achievements and asked, “Where is that prayer meet? Where is that retrospective of his films? People who loved him, we could host a screening for his films, talk about the good memories, where is all of that?”
Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai apartment in June 2020. While some suspected to be a case of death by suicide, others had alleged foul play.
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