Did the much-missed Sushant Singh Rajput enjoy dying on screen?
After seeing him die with a smile in film after film I had asked Sushant if he was this generation’s Rajesh Khanna.
“Kyon, Sir? Did he enjoy dying on screen? I don’t know about enjoying (dying on screen). But I do know that death is a part of life. And since cinema reflects on life, it must also reflect on death. That said, I haven’t gone out there to pick scripts where the hero dies. It is just a coincidence that my character dies in some of my films. I hope to do more films where the hero gets to live.”
Eerily, Sushant Singh Rajput died in five out of the ten films he completed before his sudden shocking and untimely death on June 14, 2020. In his big-screen debut film Kai Po Che (2013), Sushant’s character dies, as does the protagonists of Raabta,...
After seeing him die with a smile in film after film I had asked Sushant if he was this generation’s Rajesh Khanna.
“Kyon, Sir? Did he enjoy dying on screen? I don’t know about enjoying (dying on screen). But I do know that death is a part of life. And since cinema reflects on life, it must also reflect on death. That said, I haven’t gone out there to pick scripts where the hero dies. It is just a coincidence that my character dies in some of my films. I hope to do more films where the hero gets to live.”
Eerily, Sushant Singh Rajput died in five out of the ten films he completed before his sudden shocking and untimely death on June 14, 2020. In his big-screen debut film Kai Po Che (2013), Sushant’s character dies, as does the protagonists of Raabta,...
- 6/14/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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