Anurag Kashyap claims Sushant Singh Rajput ‘stopped responding’ to him after he landed two Dharma films: ‘My film was on the back burner’

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Sushant got the biggest hit of his career with 2016’s MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, and soon became a hot commodity in the Hindi film industry. In an earlier interview in 2020, shortly after Sushant’s passing, Anurag had claimed that Sushant dropped out of Hasee Toh Phasee because of the offers he got from YRF and Dharma Productions.

“YRF called him and said, ‘We’ll give you a deal. You do Shuddh Desi Romance.’ Sushant, who used to sit in my office with Mukesh (Chhabra) and all of us used to sit together, he signed up with YRF and dropped Hasee Toh Phasee, a film of an outsider, because usko YRF ka validation chahiye tha (he wanted validation from YRF). It’s with every actor, so I am not holding any grudges,” Anurag told NDTV.

He also spoke about another film, which was presumably Nishaanchi, and said, “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.”

Sushant passed away in June 2020 at his residence in Mumbai.