Mumbai: While Sushant Singh Rajput's death case continues to be a hot topic of discussion for over three months now, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has made new revelations about the late actor's journey in Bollywood. In a recent interview with a leading portal, he spoke on how the M.S Dhoni starrer ghosted him a couple of times after agreeing to a project. Besides, he also revealed that Parineeti Chopra had rejected the late actor for Hasee Toh Phasee since she didn't want to work with a television actor.
"We had to find an actress and we reached out to Parineeti Chopra. She said 'I don’t want to work with a television actor'. So, we explained to her that who Sushant Singh is, he is doing Kai Po Che, he is doing PK and by the time Hasee Toh Phasee comes out, he will not just be a television actor. And she was doing a film called Shuddh Desi Romance and she must have gone and spoken to YRF, they called him and said 'Why don’t you come and do Shuddh Desi Romance and not do that film?' And he disappeared on us," he said.
The Kedarnath starrer allegedly ghosted Anurag again in 2016.
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"Years later, in 2016, before the release of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, Mukesh went to Sushant and said, ‘Anurag has written a script looking for an actor who can play someone based out of Uttar Pradesh.’ Dhoni released, became a success and he never called me back. I was not upset, I moved on, I did Mukkabaaz," the filmmaker added.
Furthermore, Anurag emphasised that while the industry had witnessed the problem of Sushant ghosting people, nobody knew what he was going through.
He concluded by saying, "Sushant Singh Rajput had six blockbusters. It would take another four years of films not working for him to write off totally. A lot of people at that time didn’t know what he was going through. It is only now that it has come out that he was dealing with depression. But the problem the industry had with him at that time was that he was ghosting people. The problem was not that he would misbehave. People who would meet him would say Sushant Singh Rajput is a great boy, who behaves very well, who is sensitive, who is nice. But he would just ghost and disappear."
Previously, Anurag had revealed that before the release of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story in 2016, he was planning to approach Sushant for a film, but after the success of Dhoni, Sushant never called him back.
