The whole country is in a state of shock following the death of a brilliant actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Many people are speculating the reason for his death to be clinical depression and hence, social media is flooded with ‘need-to-talk’ and ‘mental health’ slogans.
In this row, recently film-maker Abhinav Singh Kashyap took to his social media to drop a long note accusing Salman Khan and his family for bullying and gaslighting him and sabotaging his career after 2010 film Dabangg.
In his long facebook post he wrote, “The reason I moved out of making Dabangg 2 ten years ago is because Arbaaz Khan, in collusion with Sohail Khan and family, was trying to take control of my career by bullying me. Arbaaz Khan sabotaged my second project with Shree Ashtavinayak Films that I was signed up with by personally calling their head Mr. Raj Mehta and threatening him with dire consequences if they made a film with me. I had to return the signing money to Shree Ashtavinayak films and moved to Viacom Pictures. They did the same thing.”
He further added to the post, “Only this time the sabotager was Sohail Khan and he intimidated the then Viacom CEO Vikram Malhotra. My project was sabotaged and I was made to return my signing fee of Rupees 7 Crores plus interest of Ninety odd lacs. It’s only then that Reliance Entertainment came to my rescue and we forged an enduring partnership for my film Besharam,”
The film-maker further stated, “All my projects and creative endeavours have been sabotaged and I have been repeatedly threatened with life and rape threats given to/for the female members of my family. The sustained gaslighting and bullying destroyed my mental health and that of my family and led to my divorce and breaking up of my family in 2017.”
Abhinav Singh made it very clear in his post that he won’t give up and it’s his time to fight back. “I refuse to cow down and will fight on till I see the end of either them or me. Enough tolerance. It’s time to fight back.”
https://www.facebook.com/askashyap/posts/10158865186991844
Abhinav Singh also targeted talent agencies who spot actors and introduce them to Bollywood biggies and give them false hopes of a bright future. He wrote, “The death of Sushant Singh Rajput brings under scanner the role YRF talent Management Agency might have played in pushing him towards his suicide but that is for the authorities to investigate. These people don’t make careers. They ruin your career and life. Having suffered personally for a decade, I can confidently say every Talent Manager and all Talent Management Agencies of Bollywood are a potential death Trap for Artists. They are all basically white collared Dalaals and everyone is involved. They all have an unspoken code of conduct they adhere to.”
It came as a shock for all of us as Salman Khan is popularly known to give break to struggling actors and film-makers, giving them the desired opportunity in Bollywood’s rat race. Salman Khan and his family bullying anyone is a disaster and this proves that anything is possible in this industry.
