An uncanny memory about Sushant Singh Rajput

 

At the time it happened, it seemed like nothing. But in hindsight, the reminder seems uncanny. It so happened that around a month ago, twitter reminded me (much like memories on facebook) of a tweet I had posted years ago. Never before do I remember this happening, and never after. It might have something to do with the fact that I’m not active on my personal account on twitter. The point is, that I have no recollection of twitter reminding me of past tweets.

 

But that’s not what this post is about. It’s about the content of the tweet. Which makes it uncomfortably uncanny now. It was about a Bollywood film called Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, which starred Sushant Singh Rajput in the lead. The irony. A few days ago, Rajput took his own life bringing an abrupt end to what could have been a stellar career. There’s now a whole raging debate in India about what really happened to him. For those who’ve followed the developments of this very sad story, it’s become a mystery befitting Bakshy himself, the detective styled as India’s answer to Sherlock Holmes.

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is the only film of Rajput’s I have watched with him in the lead. I watched it long after it had released, and from what I remember hadn’t done well at the box office. It was disappointing for me that it didn’t. I remember telling someone that there are movies that we judge as viewers, and there are movies that judge us. This is a rare film in the latter category. It’s not perfect, but it’s brilliant nevertheless. If it flopped, it reflects on us as an audience. And poorly.

 

I really liked Rajput in it, but just didn’t get around to watching any of his others. I would have liked to, in the future though, which now won’t be there. I can’t imagine what circumstances would have led him to take a step like this, and to dignify his memory, don’t want to. If there’s really something sinister to his death, as is being suggested, hopefully that will come to light.

 

In the tweet I had mentioned the line from Bakshy, ‘Sach ke aas paas wala jhooth pakadna mushkil hota hai’.It translates into ‘The lies in the whereabouts of truth are hard to catch’. It just seemed like an intriguing line then. Now, it’s taken on a magnified meaning in my mind. I hope Rajput finds peace wherever he is.