Richa Chadha says ‘An actor had a press release ready even before Irrfan Khan died’

Actor Richa Chadha first spoke about nepotism back in 2014 as per her blog. As per Richa, she has never shied away from penning down her opinion. Her words expressed her disappointments with how industry works and more. Under title ‘An unpopular opinion…’ Richa expressed keeping all names under wraps about her dismissals from industry. Her blogpost described that a part of industry is ‘cynical and hypocrisy thrives at this moment’.

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Richa Chadha on nepotism debate 

blog describes her ‘beautiful friend’ later actor Sushant Singh Rajput and calls back on all discussions around mental health care, nepotism and Bollywood environment. She started blog with a short excerpt of a poem by Sahir Ludhianvi. She continues to say, “Sahir Ludhianvi’s words have rung like a requiem in my ears for days on end in past month.  re has been much chatter about nepotism and too little about what this environment can do to a person’s mental health. All this in wake of suicide by a beautiful actor who happened to be an old friend.“  

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Richa Chadha recalled on some incidents in her career which made her difficult to trust people. She described her dilemma when she felt betrayed by her own crew, whose name she did t mention. She wrote, “In this business, one can’t even trust one’s own ncy/manr because y will steal from you, even though as talent you may deposit all your trust and confidence in that one person/ncy. I had once confronted an ex-nt of mine if he thought it was wrong to steal from one’s own client. This desi Hagrid brazenly declared “ye toh sab karte hain”. If you’re going to make a rotisserie out of goose that lays golden eggs, that’s last meal you will have from said goose. But this is a standard operating procedure in our business.“

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Richa Chadha's long ordeal was put toger in some harsh but realistic statements as per blog. She continued saying, “I saw journalists, publicists, film promotion people post messs of how y were sick of business and its ‘toxicity’. Some among se are most vemous people you might come across. y don’t think twice before sacrificing anyone’s life and sanity at altar of headlines and TRPs. y mselves could be under-investigation on charges of fraud, rape, paedophilia but will t desist from participating in demonstration of very hierarchy y claim to hate. y cant even spell word ‘hypocrisy’ correctly but still sit in judgement, sometimes as a wannabe ‘woke’ Twitterati and sometimes as interviewers who provoke and lie shamelessly.”

Richa Chadha on anymous actor's behaviour before Irrfan Khan's death  

Richa wrote, "I kw of this “responsible” journalist who angrily called up Irrfan Khan's staff hours before his passing to prod if he had indeed passed on. n later to complain about t being first to kw, because he couldn’t get ‘breaking news’. I kw of an actor that had a press release sent out even before Irrfan had passed so that y could milk trdy and be in same frame one last time."

Richa Chadha on 'current times' 

Richa Chadha continued that entertainment journalist went so far to reach doorstep of her boyfriend Ali Fazal’s house when his mor was t well. When she passed away, he was asking for more details about death and if he can receive shots of ambulance or body. She continued to claim that some of esteemed filmmakers who expressed condolences after Sushant passed away are same people who are people who ‘have run down movies of ir peers pre-release, have replaced actresses who refused to sleep with m at last minute and several have in fact repeatedly forecasted ‘iska kuch nahi hoga’.”

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