Anurag Kashyap had earlier said that he had offered Sushant Singh Rajput 2 films, but the actor was interested in working with bigger banners. While talking to journalist Faye D’Souza, Anurag said SSR was supposed to do Hasee Toh Phasee with him.
He claimed that Sushant’s Shudh Desi Romance co-star Parineeti Chopra didn’t want to work with Sushant in Hasee Toh Phasee!
Anurag revealed that the reason Parineeti didn’t want to work with Sushant initially was because he was a ‘television actor’.
“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.“ – said Anurag.
Anurag also went to add that the problem people would have with Sushant was not that he would misbehave with someone but that he would ghost and disappear.
“Sushant Singh Rajput had six blockbusters. It would take another four years of films not working for him to be written off totally. A lot of people at that time didn’t know what he was going through. It is only now that it has come out that he was dealing with depression. But the problem the industry had with him at that time was that he was ghosting people. The problem was not that he would misbehave. People who would meet him would say Sushant Singh Rajput is a great boy, who behaves very well, who is sensitive, who is nice. But he would just ghost and disappear.”
