(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Actor Sushant Singh Rajput died at the age of 34, sending the entire nation into shock. But as if this sudden loss of a young talented person was not numbing enough, media houses and channels made it worse with their insensitive coverage of the incident.
ThePrint (website) has come up with a lot of serious allegations against Biharis and their culture in the name of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and goes on to call the families toxic and the son bearing the burden of being a ‘Shravan Kumar’. Here are the allegations made by them:
- The son is always a kid- mera laadla
Only if he were the ‘Shravan Kumar’ of the family, his parents wouldn’t have let him go to Mumbai for a new journey with a lot of struggles. Neither he himself would have left his family to focus on his dreams, nor could have taken a decision of opting out of engineering. So he was a self-made man and never under the burden of his family.
- Girlfriend/wife separates the family from the son
We live in a world where women are fighting for equality every day. Such a statement would only point out how you think or what opinion you have about women. If we are actually digging this point, out of nowhere, then such a situation happens all around the country. And well no Indian family can stand or can understand the fact that their children have a girlfriend/boyfriend.
FYI Sushant’s family never had any sort of problem with him being in a relationship with Ankita Lokhande for 7 years. And she is still helping the family with the case.
- The familial ‘disconnect’?
His sisters would visit him quite often. He has shared a post on Instagram of his sister and brother-in-law with a caption, “Happy marriage anniversary to the most precious duo of my life”. One of his sisters even shared a screenshot of their WhatsApp chat wherein he has clearly said that he wants to come and visit her. So if there was any such familial ‘disconnect’ then all of this would not have happened. Also what stopped him from going to his sister’s place?
- Depression is seen as defeat
Parents know us better. They know it when we are sad, when we are feeling low and when we are not well within ourselves. Now if his parents could never feel such a thing happening to their son, neither did they heard anything about depression from his friends or his closed ones, then how can they believe it when some media house or channel says it? Also, he had planned his routine which he was going to follow from 29th June which his sister has shared on Instagram. That means he was planning ahead and could not take his life due to depression.
Last but not the least, clinical depression is a very big term to be used for a person right after his death as he would also lose a fair chance to defend himself against it.
- Kaala Jaadu?
Sushant’s father claimed Rhea Chakraborty to be ‘manipulative’. No such comments were passed from his side stating her to be a ‘witch’ or doing ‘Kaala Jaadu’ on his son. His family has never given Rhea any names. They have always put the facts in front of us.
All of this raises questions as to how ThePrint can call a particular community ‘toxic’? What sort of survey or research was done to get on this opinion of calling a dead actor’s family as toxic when all they want is justice to be served to their family? Are these the media ethics that they are trying to portray by targeting a community based on nothing?
Having an opinion is great but creating nexus to a nonsense theory was not expected from ThePrint. The article unnecessarily tries to give this case a feminazi view, good try but the case by Sushant’s father, Mr. K.K. Singh, is against Rhea Chakraborty and is not anti-women.
The media house kept mum when the whole country was fighting for a CBI probe in the case but how could it be behind to formulate such mind-blowing theories against Bihari families. This article targets a whole community and is baseless and has no survey or research to back it.
ThePrint also wanted the examination of the actor’s father’s allegations and his family’s post. Rather this particular piece by ThePrint needs to be examined culturally and socially.
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