Anurag Kashyap recently tweeted about late Sushant Singh Rajput and how he ‘ghosted’ him a couple of times after agreeing to a project. The first time it happened during Hasee Toh Phasee, which was released in 2014. In a recent interview, Anurag opened up about a lot of things that happened behind the scenes.
Anurag previously mentioned on how he had signed Sushant for Hasee Toh Phasee, but the late actor went ahead and made a three film deal with Yash Raj Films. His first film with them was Shuddh Desi Romance co-starring Parineeti Chopra. However, Anurag has now stated that earlier Parineeti was not ready to share the screen with Sushant.
In an interview given to journalist Faye D’Souza, Anurag said, “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 explained that everyone understood that deciding on YRF was a better deal for Sushant and so no one opposed him for it. Sushant worked with Parineeti in Shuddh Desi Romance while she worked with Sidharth Malhotra in Hasee Toh Phasee.
In an interview given to NDTV, the filmmaker claimed that Sushant allegedly ghosted Anurag again in 2016, he said “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.”
