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July, 2020 1986–2020 SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT GONE Diva No 1 MADHURI TOO DIXIT–NENE SOON ZINGER A TRIBUTE TO THE ACTOR AYUSHMANN WHO’LL LIVE IN OUR KHURRANA HEARTS FOREVER SONAM KAPOOR AHUJA’S MARRIAGE MANTRAS 68-sushantfin-final-STAN.indd 1 26-06-2020 19:42:20 Volume 69 # July 2020 / ISSN NUMBER 0971-7277 July, 2020 1986–2020 SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT GONE Diva No 1 MADHURI TOO DIXIT–NENE SOON ZINGER A TRIBUTE TO THE ACTOR AYUSHMANN WHO’LL LIVE IN OUR KHURRANA HEARTS FOREVER SONAM KAPOOR AHUJA’S MARRIAGE MANTRAS 68-sushantfin-final-STAN.indd 1 26-06-2020 19:42:20 PHOTOGRAPH: SURESH NATARAJAN 22 50 Editor’s Choice The ed remembers 04 Sushant Singh Rajput Mental health needs 70 attention 56 Goodbye, composer 44 42 Wajid Khan Sonam Kapoor tells it Masala fix Exclusives 44 like it is The magic of Madhuri SRK on the big Farewell, Sushant 50 Dixit-Nene 08 screen soon, Bhuj: 22 Singh Rajput Ayushmann Khurrana The Pride Of India to The best films of 56 on life during release on OTT, 26 Sushant Singh Rajput quarantine and more Salman Khan shoots His own words: Looking back with for Bigg Boss 14 30 Quotes from Sushant 60 affection at Shakeel 10 promo and more from Singh’s Rajput’s Badayuni the rumour mills… Filmfare interviews Remembering Basu Your say Fashion and 34 Chatterjee lifestyle Top films of Basu Readers send in their 36 Chatterjee 66 rants Interview with stylist Farewell, lyricist Shatrughan Sinha’s 18 Tanya Ghavri 40 Yogesh 68 wacky witticisms 16 Letter from the Editor A fulfilled life... Those whom the gods love, die young. Or so we tell ourselves to stave off the flood of sorrow waiting to engulf us. Sushant Singh Rajput’s untimely death came as a shock to the system. For some time, l was too numb to think, to speak. I kept thinking it was a hoax. That any minute a disclaimer would appear saying that it was a goof-up. Even the gory photos of his mortal remains didn’t help. As they were too gruesome for the mind to comprehend. Slowly, as I read message after message on social media and attended call after call asking me about the incident, the news sank in. Sushant really was dead. Subconsciously, memories of our meetings began to play in the theatre of my mind. I remembered our first meeting, when he had come over to the Filmfare office. He was full of energy, excited over his first film project. We chatted nineteen to the dozen about everything on earth. I realised he was vastly well- read. That his only interest wasn’t just films or acting. That he believed in a world beyond filmmaking. Not that he was disinterested in films. On the contrary, he displayed a childlike curiosity about the subject. He wanted to know everything. And pumped me for some anecdotes regarding legends. We developed a friendship of sorts over the phone and over IN MEMORIAM SUDDEN social media. He would message me enthusiastically about the ENDINGSUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT WAS AN OUTSIDER WHO MADE IT BIG. DEVESH SHARMA PROFILES THE ACTOR, WHO PASSED AWAYDelhi. RECENTLY He was a studious child and was, in fact, a (JANUARY 21, 1986 – JUNE 14,howbiz 2020) survives various things that were happening in life. Likewise, national Olympiad winner on dreams, and in Physics. He studied dreamers. On engineering at the Delhi men and women College of Engineering but Swho come to the city with didn’t complete the course. nothing but a burning During college, he joined I was astonished to learn he had invested in a high-quality desire to shine on the Shiamak Davar’s dance big screen. Not all realise class and found his calling their dreams. But the as a performer. He was ones who do, inspire a considered one of the best thousand more. Sushant students of Shiamak and telescope. He reportedly even carted it to the outdoor shoot Singh Rajput was one was a background dancer such person, who came to in one of the Filmfare Mumbai and gave more Awards. He had reminisced than his 100 per cent to about the experience in reach the top. But after a Filmfare interview, “I achieving the unattainable, remember watching Hrithik of Sonchiriya as the remote area would give him better access there remained a void. Roshan rehearse. He would That perhaps explains the execute these perfect steps emotional anguish he was for 10 minutes and then reportedly going through turn back and ask us if in the last few months of he was doing alright. It his life. was a kind of a high that to the stars. I have yet to meet an actor, who had such diverse Sushant was born in he had looked at you and Patna to Krishna Kumar was asking your opinion. Singh, a government Another high was watching employee and Usha Singh Shah Rukh Khan perform on January 21, 1986. He at close quarters.” interests as him. His flm career began with had four elder sisters. One Theatre beckoned and of his sisters, Mitu Singh, he joined Barry John’s Abhishek Kapoor directed is a state-level cricketer. classes in Delhi. Doing Kai Po Che! (2013). It was Being the youngest he plays gave him a high. He based on Chetan Bhagat’s was much pampered. The loved enacting different He was said to be crazily excited about Chanda Mama family reportedly moved personalities in front of the novel The 3 Mistakes Of to Delhi after his mother’s audience, leading different My Life... Set against the death in 2002. He studied backdrop of the Gujarat riots, both in Patna and in the flm was a critical and Door Ke, where he was to play an astronaut. It was to take commercial success him closer to NASA. He reportedly sponsored the trip of two PHOTOGRAPHS: SURESH NATARAJAN school children to NASA to help them realise their dream. IN MEMORIAM That project sadly couldn’t lift off. Shekhar Kapur’s ambitious ...AND THE project, Paani, failed to materialise either. He took all these WORDS ECHO! setbacks in his stride, counting them as learning experiences. AS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT, FILMFARE REPLAYS HIS QUOTES FROM EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS There has been enough speculation about why he took his Like a shooting star he dashed into the orbit of the earth stunning all with his brilliance. Sushant Singh Rajput was not confned to or defned by his identity as an actor. His life spread beyond the 70mm and celebrated the mystery of life. His ‘bucket list’ had 50 dreams lined-up, which included dabbling with Quantum Physics, visiting the Moon, learning to fy a plane, train for Iron Man Triathlon, play tennis with a champ, space training at NASA and even discussing policies with the PM of India… He devoured the philosophy of Sartre and Nietzsche, wove tears into poems, strummed the guitar, was own life. There’s no point in going there as we would never ambidextrous and could mirror write as well – a feat Leonardo da Vinci was known to possess. Perhaps, unconversant with the guile of glamour, he cut short his star trek to move onto a better world. As we mourn { his demise, we rerun his quotes from his Filmfare interviews… { know. The mind is a complex thing. One doesn’t know what NOVEMBER 18, 2015 “We crib about the THE FIRST “As we grow we discrimination we faced under the British rule. But TIME I DID THEATRE WE ARE start confusing we Indians are the biggest WAS IN COLLEGE. triggers people to take extreme steps. I always saw him as a hypocrites in the world. The CONDITIONED things. I call I REALISED it analysis discrimination we show ABOUT CONCEPTS towards our fellow Indians HOW POWERFUL OF RIGHT AND “SOME SAID WOW! by paralysis. is something else.” THIS FORM OF WRONG. ACTUALLY, SOME SAID WHAT! We analyse COMMUNICATION sweet, positive, full of life person. Always, cheerful, always WHEN WE PUT too much THERE’S NOTHING COULD BE. AT 18, He (Mahendra RIGHT OR WRONG. OURSELVES IN THIS and paralyse Singh Dhoni) likes I COULD MAKE A SITUATION WHERE WE ourselves. winning; it doesn’t CROWD OF 500 OUR DEFINITION OF CAN GENERATE THIS We worry too mean that he’s STRANGERS LAUGH MORALITY HAS BEEN much about the obsessed with it. inquisitive. And that’s how I’ll remember him. KIND OF POLARISED AND CRY. THAT CREATED OVER THE fate of the film.” Even if he has a FEELING, WE EVOLVE match two days WAS A LIBERATING YEARS TO CREATE A AS ARTISTES.” down the line, he’ll FEELING. BUT BALANCE IN SOCIETY. “I've also learnt be at ease chatting STILL, I CANNOT WE BELIEVE WHAT “If you draw the line that one should with you. He lives in COMMUNICATE WE WANT TO BELIEVE between what people not dwell in the the now. And more ABOUT OURSELVES want and what you want past or in the than being a good WITH PEOPLE I'M to do, then nothing can future. 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