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Bhumika Chawla, who was recently seen in Salman Khan’s Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, worked with late actor Sushant Singh Rajput in MS Dhoni: The Untold Story. In a recent interview, she spoke about her experience of working with Sushant and how his sudden death in 2020 deeply affected her. Bhumika described Sushant as a “sweet, down to earth person” and said that she would listen to him talk when they shot together in Ranchi.
“We didn’t have too many days together (while shooting for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story), but the few scenes we shot together, especially in Ranchi, he used to talk about his life, and other things and I realised that we are all human. We all go through our own bit of emotions. My son was barely one year old then and I would sit and listen to him,” she told Siddharth Kannan.
Bhumika Chawla said that she was “shocked” when she learnt about Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and just “couldn’t believe it”. “I couldn’t get over it for a very long time,” she said. The Tere Naam actor also spoke about the way Sushant’s death was covered by news channels and shared that she was disappointed by the “theories that came out at that time”. She said, “Someone lost their life, and the theories that came out, whether it was Bollywood, or nepotism, or drugs… I mean they made a mess out of it. At some point, the 9 o’clock news was like a primetime show that you sat to watch with your dinner. But this was like today’s saas-bahu episode. It felt like every channel was just doing this. Why were they doing this? If it was because they did not want to tell what was actually happening in the country, or what is not happening, or if they had nothing else to discuss, or if they wanted to shift the focus…”
Sushant passed away in the middle of the first lockdown when the country was battling the Covid-19 pandemic. Bhumika mentioned that this “went on for four months”. “I mean you cannot get the public to run the court. First, you solve the case and then tell the public. The decency was not there,” she said.
Bhumika Chawla said that she was “really affected” because “he was too young and unfortunately, embroiled in too many controversies. Someone said it was loneliness, someone said it was depression. I don’t know what happened.”
Bhumika played Sushant’s sister in the MS Dhoni biopic, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story.
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