I started liking him during JDJ, Sushant-Shampa used to give the most stellar performance, however its his IVs the way he used to conduct himself the consistency in his statements what made really admire him
the first time I saw his IV was litotically Masand's breakthrough stars roundtable & amongst all those ppl his passion for his craft was most palpable and it showed in his performances the finesse, the efforts he put in to showcase that effortlessness, I remember watching his Komal Nahta IV during DBB time I think his knack for challenges made me realize about how much research he puts in something I can say without a shadow that no one from this crop of actor or actresses could or would.
That was one of the reason I believe I always gave him the benefit of doubt while all those nasty blinds came up relentlessly, it was when a blind that alluding that a wasted SSR started stripping & dancing in a restaurant or something is when I recognized a deliberation in the pattern coz every blind hinting unfailingly used the adjective "arrogant & difficult" the desperation to make that description stick to his image was hard to ignore something I found hard to associate with a guy so dedicated why would he jeapordize everything he worked so hard to build from scratch unlike his contemporaries who got it all on platter it just didn't add up.
Probably the reason I kinda defended him even during Me too implication.
Always felt genuinely bad watching his trailer launch events be it MS Dhoni, it was all about Dhoni, Raabta PC toh reporter literally harrassed him & somehow still he was painted as the bad arrogant guy, Kedarnath toh was next hog fest, or how an Abhishek Chaubey directorial Sonchiraiya was clashed with a rom com and released in barely 300 screens.
Subconsciously admist all this I didn't even realise when I lost interest in him (even BW in general) probably when I chose to watch Dream Girl over Chhichhore.
My coping mechanism to deal with stuff when I am upset due work or relationships is to simply binge watch films or shows or binge read, firmly believing in the quote that Fiction is necessary to survive the reality but Sushant's untimely demise has like opened up that interdimensional breach for me, like I said I don't I'll ever watch another BW film in theatres, he deserved so much & more may he find peace.
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