Gulshan

Sushant Singh Rajput,nicknamed as Gulshan was a very popular actor in Bollywood, and my favourite too.He was born on 21 January 1986 in Patna,Bihar to Krishna Kumar Singh and Usha Singh.He was the youngest and only brother to four sisters.His family moved to Delhi in 2002.He attended Kulachi Hansraj Model School there.

Rajput was an avid reader and was highly interested in astrophysics and also had won the National Olympiad in Physics.He secured an admission in the Delhi College of Engineering (later renamed as Delhi Technological University) to pursue a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.According to him, he had little interest in engineering but his family gave him no option and he had to join. He instead wanted to become an astronaut and later an air force pilot,however he was also interested in Bollywood, being a fan of Shah Rukh Khan.

While studying at the Delhi College of Engineering, he enrolled himself in Shiamak Davar's dance classes.He also attended acting classes under the theatre director Barry John. He featured as a background dancer in the Dhoom Again song of Dhoom 2 and also in Ashwariya Rai's performance at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.In 2006, he dropped out of his engineering course during his fourth year and began a career in arts and performance.He moved to Mumbai and began taking up odd jobs and small roles while working in the theatre industry. In Mumbai, he joined Nadira Babbar's theatre group called the Ekjute in which he remained for two and a half years.

He was spotted by a casting team of Balaji Telefilms while he was working at the Prithvi Theatre.He was subsequently called for an audition and cast as a second lead in the television series Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil in 2008 and enacted  the role of Preet Singh Juneja, the step brother of the lead named Harshad Chopda and entered the show in its seventh episode. The character was killed early in the show, but due to his immense popularity among viewers ,he was brought back in the series finale as a spirit looking on, as his family celebrated coming out of difficult times. This performance had impressed the producer Ekta Kapoor who vouched for him to be cast as the lead in another series Pavitra Rishta.

In Pavitra Rishta, Rajput was cast as Manav Deshmukh who was an "ideal son and husband" and his co-star was Ankita Lokhande.The role made him a household name and he won various television awards, including his first award for best actor in the Indian Television Academy Awards 2010. He also won three major television awards in the categories of best male actor and most popular actor. He joined the dance reality show Zara Nachke Dikha in 2010 in its second season as part of the Mast Kalandar Boys team. On the Mother's Day special episode, the team dedicated a performance to Rajput's mother. Later in the same year, he also took part in the fourth season of another dance competition reality show called Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and was paired alongside the choreographer Shampa Sonthalia.They came runners up of the season.

Rajput continued to act in Pavitra Rishta from its first airing on 2009 till his exit in 2011, playing the part of the protagonist of the series for two and a half years at the time of his exit.He had stated that he intended to move to the United States to study filmmaking and had already gained experience behind the scenes in the film Raaz 2,where he worked. as assistant director.Rajput however made a later reappearance in the final episode of Pavitra Rishta in 2014 after gaining critical acclaim in Bollywood.

He has starred in a number of commercially successful Bollywood films such as M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Kedarnath (2018) and Chhichhore (2019) and many more. Due his immense contribution to the film industry, he became the recipient of one Screen Award and was also nominated for the Filmfare Awards on two occasions.

On 14 June 2020, he was found dead, hanging from the ceiling fan  in his home in Bandra, Mumbai.As per certain sources, he had shown signs of clinical depression and was suffering from bipolar disorder.The postmortem report stated that it was "asphyxia due to hanging," and called it a "clear case of suicide."The postmortem report ascertained that the time of death was between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (Indian Standard Time) and no foul play was found. The viscera report also ruled out any foul play.On 25 July, Rajput's family lodged a F. I. R. with police in Patna, where his father lives, accusing Rhea Chakraborty and five others of abetment of suicide.

On 19 August 2020, the Supreme Court of India allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to take control of the investigation . The CBI was later joined by the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to investigate the money laundering and drug peddling angles respectively.

On 8 September, Rhea Chakraborty ,was arrested by the NCB in a drug case linked to the investigation of the death probe and prior to the arrest, 9 others were arrested by the NCB in the drug case including Rhea's brother, Showik Chakraborty.

On 3 October, Dr. Sudhir Gupta of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and leading a team of forensic medicals tasked by CBI for assistance, said, "Sushant death is a case of suicide. and murder was completely ruled out."Gupta told Asian News International (ANI),There were no injuries over the body other than hanging and no marks of struggle/scuffle in the body and clothes of the deceased was found.On 5 October, ANI reported that the AIIMS medical board had submitted its report to CBI confirming that Rajput died by suicide and ruling out the murder angle.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s alleged suicide shocked the country and Bollywood celebs and other prominent persons from various fields mourned his sudden demise.

Sushant Singh Rajput was a very talented actor and a good human being.He would be always remembered as a committed actor and a nice person by his millions and millions of fans in India and abroad!