IT Correspondent
Mumbai, June 18:
The death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput at his residence at Bandra on Sunday in North West Mumbai, has turned out into a controversial debate, with a film director exposing the alleged nepotism and unhealthy competition in Bollywood and BJP MLA demanding CBI inquiry into the mishap.
BJP MLA Ram Kadam, from Ghatkopar constituency in North East Mumbai, told media that the family members of Rajput has expressed doubt about the capability of Maharashtra Police in probing the incident. As such the CBI inquiry should be conducted to clear the doubts and give justice to the family. On Sunday, Mumbai police had said that prima facie Rajput committed a suicide and there was no foul play.
Whereas Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that the matter will be probed by the Maharashtra police and they will also inquire whether Rajput was a victim of groupism in the Hindi film industry.
In another major development, Abhinav Singh Kashyap, the director of super duper Hindi film “Dabangg”, has alleged that all his ‘projects were sabotaged by superstar Salman Khan’s family. In a long post from his Facebook account and also media interviews, he exposed how certain powerful sections try to scuttle the projects of the artists, without family background.
In his post Kashyap alleged that in the last few years, he was repeatedly threatened with life and rape threats were given to female members of his family. The sustained gas lighting and bullying destroyed his mental health and that of his family and eventually led to his divorce and breaking up of his family in 2017. Most of his projects were ‘sabotaged’ by Salman Khan and his family including Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan.
All talent management agencies of Bollywood are a potential death trap for artists. Dedicating his post to struggling actors and creative artists, Kashyap, who is the brother of Bollywood’s critically acclaimed director Anurag Kashyap, wrote that he will make sure no other person kills himself over lack of work with dignity in Bollywood’. He further added that he ‘will never commit suicide but should anything untoward happen to him,the country knows who to blame. His post can be treated as his police statement.
In yet another development a police case has been filed against eight people including Bollywood directors Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ekta Kapoor along with actor Salman Khan in connection with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, by a lawyer named Sudhir Kumar Ojha at a local court in Bihar, which has scheduled the hearing on July 3.
The complainant, has alleged that the eight persons forced Sushant to committ suicide under a conspiracy, which he pleaded, amounts to murder. The complaint has been filed under Sections 306, 109, 504 & 506 of IPC. However the Salman Khan family refused to offer any comment saying that they would recourse to legal action in the matter.
