Sushant Singh Rajput death: 7 controversies that Shook Bollywood after his tragic demise

untimely demise of Sushant Singh Rajput left his fans devastated and sent jitters through film fraternity. actor died by suicide, which raised many eyebrows. This raised talks about mental health and depression and furr threw light on how actor reportedly became a victim of nepotism, favouritism and lobbies that exist in Bollywood industry.

His death sparked debates about how differently insiders are treated as compared to outsiders. actor’s death also stirred controversies about how Bollywood bullies and certain lobbies that are controlling careers of many people. Here is a list of 7 controversies that rose to public consciousness after Sushant Singh Rajput's untimely demise.

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7 controversies that shook Bollywood after his tragic suicide

1) Nepotism debate is back in spotlight -Sushant Singh Rajput’s death brought back debates on nepotism into spotlight. film fraternity was split in two as actors took sides based on ir experiences. 

• Tiger Shroff recently broke his silence on nepotism debate and said that though star kids have an advant over outsiders, y have added pressure as well to sustain in industry.

• Recently Alia Bhatt released her upcoming film, Sadak 2's first teaser poster. teaser received mixed response and netizens started urging fans to boycott film.

• Several star kids in industry were targeted by netizens. Due to this, Sonakshi Sinha left Twitter as she felt re was a lot of negativity on social media.

• Netizens in reaction to Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise started unfollowing many star kids on social media. Alia Bhatt, Ananya Panday, Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor and Karan Johar lost many followers on ir social media handles.

• Several celebrities disabled ir comment sections on social media.

2) Jiah Khan's mor raises questions: Jiah Khan was an actor who died by suicide in year 2013. Her mor opened up about how her daughter death’s investigation was hampered due to involvement of Bollywood biggies. She released two videos as well on social media.

3) Abhinav Kashyap calls Salman Khan a "bully": Post Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, filmmaker Abhinav Kashyap was emboldened and dropped names of Salman Khan & family. Abhinav Kashyap blamed m for destroying his career in Bollywood and called m "Bollywood bullies".

4) Kangana Ranaut opened up about Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide:  actor claimed that people in industry could t see her progress and threatened her, demoralised her and bad moud her. She revealed on social media that she was told several times that she would commit suicide.

5) Big production houses steering careers: Sushant Singh Rajput’s death unveiled how big production houses are able to steer careers of certain actors. In ongoing investigation, case against 8 celebrities was filed. Many big names from industry, including Sanjay Leela Bhansali, were interrogated for hours regarding case. Yash Raj Films were made to submit ir contracts and proceedings. This was done because it was revealed that certain big production houses sign contracts with actors. Sometimes contracts bind m to t work on or projects even if y like m. This narrows down projects an actor can work on and is limited to work only with those certain banners.

6) birth of Nepometer: Reportedly, Sushant Singh Rajput’s family launched a Nepometer which shall calculate percent of nepotism in a film. According to Nepometer, Sadak 2 was reported to be 98% nepotistic.

7) outsider vs insider treatment:  debate about nepotism led to many 'Outsiders' in Bollywood to share ir experiences of being left out. Reportedly, two actors' separate movies are to be released on OTT platforms along with some popular stars’ films. However, out of all seven films, only 5 movies were represented on posters, chat shows and interviews conducted by certain media portals. This filled Kunal Kemmu and Vidyut Jammwal with r and y tweeted:

• Abhay Deol too broke his silence and talked about how unfair certain award shows are and how industry has lobbies which control careers of many actors. He talked about how he was minated for a supporting actor role for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara even though his character was a lead character. Check out post below.  actor went on to share more about his several films that did t get due recognition and ackwledgement.

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