Sushant Singh Rajput: Reflecting on the Complex Narrative | Death Anniversary

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On the anniversary of Sushant Singh Rajput’s passing, reflection on the events that transpired reveals a complex narrative. A nation’s grief morphed into a crusade for justice, fuelled by celebrity voices and an impassioned online community. The discourse uncovered deep-seated issues of masculinity and nepotism, while a media frenzy and political undercurrents amplified the saga.

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00:00Today is Sushant Singh Rajput's death anniversary.

00:03Four years ago on the very same day when the COVID-19 was ravaging countless lives, when

00:08the Chinese army was advancing towards the border, when migrant workers were trudging

00:11to their homes, many collapsing on the way, the entire country indulged in a baffling

00:16alchemy, converting a suicide into a murder.

00:21This movement was helmed by a few celebrities, Kangana Ranaut, Subramanian Swamy, Shekhar

00:27Soman and a few others.

00:29And then it was very quickly overtaken by an online mob.

00:34And the story is a classic case of no smoke without fire.

00:39In fact, as the online mob started to rant against what they saw was a perpetrated miscarriage

00:46of justice, they started to reveal themselves.

00:50First of all was this huge latent insecurity about masculinity itself.

00:56The death of Sushant Singh Rajput, the way they interpreted it, looked as the death of

01:00masculinity itself, because they argued that here was a very famous guy, he was very rich,

01:07he was very successful.

01:10So it absolutely did not make any sense to them that how could such a person die by suicide?

01:16The second was the whole fact about nepotism, which of course is not untrue wholly.

01:22They saw in Sushant Singh Rajput, an outsider from Bihar, who tried to come to Bollywood

01:27and gained a lot of success in the industry, but was ultimately scuttled by the industry

01:33dynast.

01:34And then the story, like most memorable stories also had a villain, a vamp in fact, Rhea Chakraborty,

01:40a Bengali woman who had poisoned or in fact, instigated or kind of like made Sushant Singh

01:47Rajput gravitate towards drugs.

01:49And then there was this whole trial, whole media circus that just went after the whole

01:55drug lobby of Bollywood.

01:58There were a few other components of the story that just made it very relevant for it to

02:03spiral in the way it did.

02:04Bihar elections were around the corner.

02:06So a lot of political, vested political interests stoked the Rajput suicide fire.

02:12Then there was this whole thing about what Rajput himself was for this online mob.

02:17He was an upper caste man.

02:19He was Hindu.

02:20So in a sense, they saw in Sushant a certain version of themselves.

02:27This was Bollywood's version of Hindu Khatre Mein Hai.

02:31Thank you.

Sushant Singh Rajput: Reflecting on the Complex Narrative | Death Anniversary

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