'Parineeti Chopra Refused To Work In ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ With Sushant Singh Rajput As He Was A Television Actor': Claims Anurag Kashyap

The ‘Manmarziyaan’ director also revealed how Sushant Singh Rajput ghosted him a couple of times after agreeing to do a project. Read on to know full details.

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New Delhi: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has always been vocal about his views on various topics including the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput. The death case of SSR continues to be the hot topic of discussion and in one of his recent interviews, Kashyap revealed some shocking details about the late actor. The director revealed that Sushant's co-star from ‘Shuddh Desi Romance’ Parineeti Chopra, refused to work with him in ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’.

The ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ director disclosed in an interview with Faye D’Souza that the ‘Dil Bechara’ actor was supposed to play the lead role in ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ but he ghosted them. Anurag Kashyap said, “He was supposed to do the film (Hasee Toh Phasee) and we had to find an actress and we reached out to Parineeti Chopra. She said ‘I don’t want to work with a television actor’. So, we explained to her that who Sushant Singh is, he is doing Kai Po Che, he is doing PK and by the time Hasee Toh Phasee comes out, he will not just be a television actor. And she was doing a film called Shuddh Desi Romance and she must have gone and spoken to YRF, they called him and said ‘Why don’t you come and do Shuddh Desi Romance and not do that film?’ And he disappeared on us.”

The filmmaker also revealed in the same interview that the problem with the ‘Kai Po Che!’ actor was not that he would misbehave with someone, but that he would just ghost people and disappear. He added, “Sushant Singh Rajput had six blockbusters. It would take another four years of films not working for him to written off totally. A lot of people at that time didn’t know what he was going through. It is only now that it has come out that he was dealing with depression. But the problem the industry had with him at that time was that he was ghosting people. The problem was not that he would misbehave. People who would meet him would say Sushant Singh Rajput is a great boy, who behaves very well, who is sensitive, who is nice. But he would just ghost and disappear.”

Anurag Kashyap also claimed that SSR was approached for a movie where the director wanted an actor who can portray the role of a person based out of Uttar Pradesh. The ‘Chhichhore’ actor ghosted the filmmaker once again and post the success of ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ in 2016, Sushant never called back the director.

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