A media journalist who met Sushant Singh Rajput six times describes how he changed toward the end, discussing social media's role in the backlash he faced and calls for a CBI investigation into his death.
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was making faces. I could feel a lot of anger in his personality.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, because you could have not done— no, you have not made that big. So you just can't, you know, keep throwing away— I mean, throwing your anger to people. I mean, this is not done. I mean, social media— I mean, I know, I'm being a media person, I feel it has a Very huge role in today's media. You, I mean, you yourself, you know, we were discussing little while ago that how the electronic media and the social media, uh, you know, the leaders now. Print is, uh, you know, uh, print is like has taken—
print has taken a backseat and social media and YouTube and, uh, visual media is now the king.
Yeah, but, but I'm sorry, I mean So much of forwarded, forwarded stuff.
So much trash. Yes.
So it is, it has made worse for all of us. I mean, I know that I, I can't explain it to you, Kabirini, the amount of negativity, uh, the industry is suffering from now. You know, it is unbelievable. I have never felt that negativity around me in my 15 or 16 years of career. So that should come to an end now. I mean, we all want here justice.
Yes.
But yeah, people are not people are not bad people like Karan Johar, people like you know Jash Chopra, I mean Nadita Chopra. They have also given a lot of chances to new people. Yeah. And if Karan Johar is giving chance to all the star kids, there is no harm. I mean, as an individual, I don't see any harm. If tomorrow Kabiridhi, you are producing a Or I am producing a film, and if we see certain potential in our kids, we will launch them only, right?
That's right. That's right. It's very true.
It is very natural.
It's very natural.
But yeah, yeah, there are certain things which should not happen. And you know, there is a very interesting thing which my one of my ex-editor told me other day that तुम देखना अभी people will stop watching star kids.
Yeah, that's what's happening. That's what happening. Like Sarak too was like some twelve million dislikes and reporting the video. It's going on like so many.
Do you as an individual?
No, I don't agree to this. This is not right. I mean, why would you take out your bharak on those people like star kids? Like you, you are angry with Sushant's death, and now nepotism was the first angle. ठीक है I understand that people were angry, but Okay, now that nepotism is kind of taken a backseat, let these people be. Let these people be. Let them do. But yeah, people are angry with Mahesh Bhatt, so they are banning all his movies. I understand the anger where they're coming from. They people are angry with the videos that Mahesh Bhatt was with Ria and all these things. WhatsApp chats and all.
And many of my friend Kapilidi actually has done a story on this. I had a fight with an argument with them. Are you kidding me? That you have done a story that Sarak too has got this kind of.
Yeah, I saw a story. Yeah, I saw a story which came up in Google that Sarak too has received some twelve million dislikes and it's that's why. So a lot of anyway, अबार्क we are not getting to hear each other. Okay, so I think we have to close the interview. Yeah, now you can hear me. Can you hear me again? Poor connection, video paused. Sorry about that, guys. Reconnecting. I think we more or less done and we've kind of understood the situation and You guys can actually let me call her once more. She's a media journalist and she's a Bollywood reporter.
Yeah, yeah, sorry.
So the camera is still on. Yeah, I think we, we are done for the day. We've got all our questions answered. Like, we kind of made a compact of the whole thing that is going on in, um, in India and all over the world. And think people should now calm down. And I hope from the bottom of my heart that CBI finishes this investigation because most of the investigations Are still like pending. Now they should live up to their their own image and you know save our face because all over the world people are looking up to India and there's like they're saying what's happening India rape case होता है कोई मसला नहीं कोई nobody gets like any justice murder हो जाता है nobody gets any justice because people have now concluded this is a murder nobody will
