Anurag Kashyap says Parineeti Chopra rejected Hasee Toh Phasee with Sushant Singh Rajput: ‘She didn’t want to work with a TV actor’

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap just lately tweeted about late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and the way he ‘ghosted’ him a few occasions after agreeing to a undertaking. The first time it occurred was throughout Hasee Toh Phasee, which launched in 2014. In a current interview, Anurag shared extra particulars about all that occurred behind the scenes.

Anurag has beforehand talked about how he had roped in Sushant for Hasee Toh Phasee however he went forward and signed a 3 movie cope with Yash Raj Films. His first movie with them was Shuddh Desi Romance co-starring Parineeti Chopra. However, Anurag has now stated that Parineeti earlier didn’t wish to work with Sushant.

Speaking to journalist Faye D’Souza, Anurag stated, “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.”Anurag stated that everybody understood that going with YRF was a greater deal for Sushant and so not one opposed him for it. Sushant labored with Parineeti in Shuddh Desi Romance whereas she labored with Sidharth Malhotra in Hasee Toh Phasee.

Sushant allegedly ghosted Anurag once more in 2016. “Years later, in 2016, before the release of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, Mukesh went to Sushant and said, ‘Anurag has written a script looking for an actor who can play someone based out of Uttar Pradesh.’ Dhoni released, became a success and he never called me back. I was not upset, I moved on, I did Mukkabaaz,” the filmmaker stated in an interview to NDTV.

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Anurag additionally stated in his interview to Faye: “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 jut ghost and disappear.”

Anurag added that he is aware of Sushant was making an attempt to alter this a part of him. He modified his companies, moved from YRF to Corner Stone. Anurag stated that Sushant’s new supervisor reached to him three weeks earlier than the actor’s dying, asking for work. He stated that Sushant informed his supervisor ‘If you take my name to Anurag, he won’t reply your name’. Anurag believes that Sushant was additionally feeling responsible for disappearing on him.

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