Indeed a very sad news. Apologies, wall of text incoming.
I don't know what exactly the reason was that led him to this. I have not followed any blinds or gossips so I don't know but browsing the forums for some time does give me an inkling that issues related to his career could be the reason. For me, I would say he is one of those actors whose movies have had more impact on me than many other actors who are given the status of stars here or have the so called "star aura". For reasons unknown to me and I didn't realize this till now, he is right there at the top (along with Ayushmann) among the actors whose movies I have watched the most in theaters in the last decade. For me he always came off as a sincere actor in whichever role I saw him in. From Kai Po Che to Byomkesh to Dhoni to Chicchore, he did a good job for me. For a person who has achieved such success in a short span of time in an industry plagued by nepotistic mafia, most of us can look up to him, admire him, and even envy his success. Given all this, it wouldn't be outrageous for me to say he was deeply passionate about his craft as an actor.
This brings me to my second point. When you are very passionate about achieving something, it is very easy to lose perspective of what you are worth. It is very easy to attach your self worth to your career, money, glamour, social media likes etc. This attachment runs so deep that sometimes even the most successful people, the overachievers, are unable to handle hiccups in career. Surrounding yourself with highly successful or famous people does lead you to parochial view of viewing yourself from their perspective, which more often than not is not a very favorable perspective. It is important to remember that many of them invariably view you as your competition. This competition can be healthy but can also turn toxic very easily. After all they are successful because they have managed their way up through cut throat competition by hook or crook. And you don't even have to be diagnosed with depression to fall into this trap, it happens daily to healthy people around you.
Part of the issue here is when we are at top, we fail to acknowledge the failures, insecurities we all have. Instead of bragging about our success, our promotions, our salary, the foreign trips etc, we need to pay more attention to failures. It is good and more enlightening to talk with your colleagues about how you failed so hard, how you felt like an imposter in your work that you are considered an expert of, how you feel like you are not being valued, how you feel like what you do is just BS and is worthless, how you messed up today!! More of this among colleagues and friends would help in not just better work but a better mindset overall. Till then the tendency to hide failures in a rug would cost sleepless nights to many. It is better to be honest and not try to impress all the time. The culture of celebrating success in general is pretty toxic and can take a toll on you. Greatest successes almost always have a series of failures behind them. It is important and helpful to share those and talk about those instances and not pretend that everything was all good.
At the end, I would just like to remind to definitely reach out to all those people who you think are too busy in their careers. It won't hurt to remind them they are your friends or family not because of their professional success but because of the moments spent outside of the work. How the outside world views them has little to do with how many projects you completed or how much money you made. Life as such is usually unfair, people are irrational, things don't always work out. It is important to recognize all this.
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