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Sushant Singh Rajput is no more with us but he has left some unanswered questions behind him. Sushant Singh Rajput had reportedly committed suicide at his Bandra residence in Mumbai on Sunday. The postmortem of the actor was conducted at Mumbai’s Cooper Hospital. As per reports, the actor suffered asphyxia due to hanging, which is stated to be the provisional cause of death. His co-stars and colleagues are devastated by the news of his death. The entire nation mourned the actor’s death. However, Saif Ali Khan is angry about the film’s industry sudden outpouring of love for Sushant. He feels that a day of silence would be more appropriate than the ‘hypocrisy’ of pretending to care.
In an interview with The Times of India, Saif called the news of Sushant’s death ‘just awful’, but hit out at those ‘talking rubbish’ in the wake of the tragedy. “There are so many people who’ve made comments so quickly. And it just seems to me that people are somewhere gaining some mileage from this poor fellow’s tragedy, you know, whether it’s to show compassion or to show interest or to show some political stance. So many people are talking rubbish in this nonstop kind of barrage on social media and it’s just embarrassing, really, I think,” he said.
“Out of respect for him, for Sushant’s tragedy, maybe a day of silence or introspection would be a little more becoming than this outpouring of love – an outpouring of love from people who obviously didn’t care about him and people who famously don’t care about anybody else,” he said.
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Saif said that the film industry was famously competitive and the pretense of caring for Sushant was an ‘insult’ to him. “I mean, we don’t care about anybody. You know, it’s a very cutthroat line of work. But to pretend that you do care is like the ultimate hypocrisy and I think that’s an insult to the dead, you know, it’s an insult to the soul that’s gone,” he said.
Saif further added that people writing lengthy social media posts are unlikely to show the same level of love and compassion in real life.
“We live in an age where people write 10 lines for you on Twitter and will walk past you on the street – won’t even touch you or shake your hand. You know, you get wished for your birthday, but people don’t actually call you. There’s no contact,” he said.
There have been talks of Sushant being failed by bigwigs of the film industry. Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur had tweeted after his demise that the actor was in ‘pain’ and would ‘weep on (his) shoulder’ because of being let down by certain people.
I knew the pain you were going through. I knew the story of the people that let you down so bad that you would weep on my shoulder. I wish Iwas around the last 6 months. I wish you had reached out to me. What happened to you was their Karma. Not yours. #SushantSinghRajput
— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) June 15, 2020
Naming few people has no value. They themselves are products and victims of a ‘system’ everyone is protesting against.
If you really care, if you’re really angry, then bring down the system. Not the individual. That’s guerilla warfare. Not a spurt of anger. #SushantSinghRajput— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) June 16, 2020
Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut also shared an angry video, in which she said that the late actor was not given his due as he was an outsider, and was constantly told that he was ‘worthless’.
Saif’s daughter Sara Ali Khan, who made her Bollywood debut opposite Sushant in Kedarnath, was shocked and ‘very, very, very upset’ by the news. “She liked him very much. She was quite impressed with certain aspects of his personality. She told me he was very intelligent, that he could discuss, you know, Jean-Paul Sartre and he could discuss various aspects of philosophy and engineering and that he had learned how to shoot with a bow and arrow left handed, and he was very fit as well as very hard-working, and a good actor,” Saif said, adding that she always talked of him as “being a really remarkable person”.
Sara Ali Khan also took to her Instagram handle to share a behind-the-scenes picture from the making of the film, in which the two of them were seen laughing heartily. Her caption simply read, “Sushant Singh Rajput,” followed by a series of heart and heartbroken emojis.
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