Rhea Chakraborty Writes An Emotional Post For Sushant Singh Rajput On His One Month Death Annivarsary; Shares Unseen PICS With The Late Actor!
His personality bloomed through each of the characters that he portrayed on-screen. The actor always wanted to play himself in his biopic.
On Sushant Singh Rajput's one month death anniversary, let’s take a look back at the characters played by him with a heavy heart and twinkle in our eyes.
Manav, Pavitra Rishta
Sushant Singh Rajput set his foot off as an actor with the TV serial ‘Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil’. But the character of ‘Manav’ portrayed by him in ‘Pavitra Rishta’ left a mark in the heart of the audience. He was the protagonist of the show alongside Ankita Lokhande. The actor made an exit to the show in 2011 as he was preparing himself for his Bollywood debut.
Ishaan Bhatt, Kai Po Che
This movie marked the debut for Sushant Singh Rajput, which is based on Chetan Bhagat’s 2008 based pulp fiction ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’. Sushant Singh Rajput played the character of Ishaan Bhatt and the story is about 3 friends who desired to start their own sports shop and a sports academy. Assorted in the city of Ahmedabad, the plot of the story contemplated around the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and Godhra train burning. Rajput also won the Filmfare Award for Best male Debut in the year 2014.
Byomkesh Bakshy, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Many adaptations have been made from the story Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’. But Dibakar Banerjee’s adaptation of the popular private detective Byomkesh Bakshi, couldn’t have been illustrated better than Sushant Singh Rajput. Doing justice to this popular character is a task in itself and after Rajit Kapur (who portrayed the character of Byomkesh Bakshi in a TV show), it was Sushant who lived up to the character.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story
Who can forget the preciseness of Sushant Singh Rajput while portraying the character of MS Dhoni. There are many instances while the audience actually forgot that they are watching Sushant Singh Rajput sketching the character of MS Dhoni on screen. Right from his famous helicopter shot to the simplicity of the cricketer’s personal life, Sushant lived up to the character like no one else could have. This movie not only gained applaud from the movie lovers, but also from the cricket fans.
Lakhna, Sonchiriya
Though this movie was not a box office hit, it received positive acclamations from the critics. The 2019 Indian action film is embedded in the valley of Chambal. The character of Lakhna Singh was played by Sushant Singh Rajput who was a Bundelkhand Baaghi and was in search of the soul. Sushant portrayed the character with sheer excellence and perfection.
Anni, Chhichhore
With the critically acclaimed and blockbuster movie of Nitesh Tiwari, everyone watched Sushant for the last time on big screen. Rajput played the character of Aniruddh Pathak aka Anni in in this movie. He juggled efficiently between the dimensions of the two characters like a pro. Other than depicting the hostel life in Indian Engineering colleges, this film had a social message for suicide prevention.
Sushant Singh Rajput, the human dynamo, has sketched many other characters in his journey of enjoying himself in the work he did. He has left the world with a hole which will be hard to fill in. Be it his character of Sarfaraz in PK or Anni in Chhichhore, the actor knew how to blow away the mind of the audience with his flamboyant art. His intelligence, larger than life approach and his down to earth nature made him different from other Bollywood actors.
It is rightly said that an artist never dies. The whole world is waiting to watch you layout magic on screen for the very last time with ‘Dil Bechara’ on 24th July. You were and will always be a star.