While actor Sushant Singh's death shook the entire Bollywood, the effects of his untimely passing have been especially hard on his family members. Media reports claimed that, in a tragic turn of events, Sushant's sister-in-law (cousin's wife) Sudha Devi passed away, unable to deal with the actor's death. Reports indicated that she had stopped eating after the news of Sushant's death and that she passed when Sushant's funeral was being conducted in Mumbai. THE WEEK could not independently confirm the news.
Mumbai Police found out during the probe that the actor was under medication for depression. No suicide note was found from the spot. Police, as well as the crime branch officials, visited his rented flat on Sunday, but nothing suspicious was found. Rajput had been living with two cooks and a house help.
Rajput was cremated in the presence of family members and close friends from the film and TV industry. Sushant starred in films such as Shuddh Desi Romance, Raabta, Kedarnath and Sonchiriya. But his most prominent role came as cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni's in the 2007 biopic, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story. His death has come as another shock for the film fraternity, still recovering from the deaths of Irrfan Khan, Rishi Kapoor and Basu Chatterjee.
Rajput, who made the storybook transition from Patna boy to television and then the starry lights of the Hindi film industry, was the youngest of five siblings and is survived by his father and four sisters.
Rajput's last screen appearance was Nitesh Tiwari's 2019 film Chhichhore, where he played the role of a father who conveys a message of hope and affirmation to his son who has attempted to kill himself. And his last social media post, dedicated to his late mother who died in 2002 when he was a young teen, was on June 3, a foretelling perhaps on what to come. "Blurred past evaporating from teardrops. Unending dreams carving an arc of smile. "And a fleeting life, negotiating between the two," he wrote on Instagram post with a black and white photograph of his mother.
