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After the death of film actor Sushant Singh Rajput, his girlfriend actor Rhea Chakraborty was put behind bars in Byculla jail as she was accused of procuring drugs for the actor. Sushant died in June 2020 and in the following weeks, there was an intense media trial and Rhea was at the centre of it. She spent around six weeks in jail, following which, she got her bail. On the last day, she put up a dance performance for her co-prisoners who insisted that she dances for them and they ended doing the naagin dance. At the recent India Today Conclave, Rhea spoke about her time in jail and said that “you are no longer person” but only “a number.”
“You start viewing yourself as nothing. You are a number. You have to do as told. You have to eat when told, you have to stand when told and that in itself is a very humbling experience for anyone who goes through it,” she shared. She shared that the experience of being in jail feels like “you are falling from the sky into an abyss of nothingness and there’s just black around you.”
She then spoke about the women that she met during her time in jail and said, “I learnt a lot from seeing the women that I saw in prison. I was an undertrial prisoner, which is not convicted,” and added that that the motto should be “innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent.” Rhea said that many women who were there did not have the kind of family support that she had and did not have the “media glare” that her case had at the time “which has its cons, but the pros is that your case will be seen, will be heard. There will be a time for your story to be told as well. In that situation, I saw women suffering far worse than me being the happiest people I have ever seen. You are given a few moments of happiness in your life, snatch them. That’s what I learnt from jail.”
Rhea was then asked about her last day in jail and shared that she put up a small dance performance for her co-prisoners. “The day I got bail, my brother did not get bail and I was devastated. It was the only day that I broke down entirely in jail,” she recalled. Rhea said that she had previously promised the other prisoners that she would dance for them when she got her bail but at this point, she did not have the heart for it. But as she walked away, she thought about the joy it would bring to the women there and she gave in.
“And so I did it and it was the most ecstatic moment of my life because we were practically doing the naagin dance on the floor. The excitement and joy and happiness that I saw in these women’s eyes while I was dancing for them, with them is probably the highest point of my life till date,” she recalled.
Rhea’s case is still sub-judice.
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