60 Facts About Sushant Singh Rajput

Sushant Singh Rajput was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema.

Sushant Singh Rajput appeared on Forbes India Celebrity 100 list twice since 2017.

Sushant Singh Rajput moved on to feature in Hindi television serials, his debut show was the romantic drama Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, followed by the lead role in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta.

Sushant Singh Rajput starred in a number of other films such as the reincarnation drama Raabta, the historical drama Sonchiriya and the action thriller Drive.

Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide at his home in Bandra, Mumbai in June 2020, aged 34.

The Narcotics Control Bureau claimed Sushant Singh Rajput had been using various people to obtain drugs since 2018 and filed abetment charges against them.

Sushant Singh Rajput's father is a retired technical officer and worked at Bihar State Handloom Corporation in Patna.

Sushant Singh Rajput was the youngest of five siblings and had the nickname Gulshan.

One of his four sisters Mitu Sushant Singh Rajput was a state-level cricket player.

Sushant Singh Rajput attended the St Karen's High School in Patna.

Sushant Singh Rajput's family moved to Delhi following his mother's death in 2002 where Rajput completed his schooling for intermediate studies in Kulachi Hansraj Model School.

Sushant Singh Rajput was reportedly an avid reader who was deeply interested in astrophysics and won the National Olympiad in Physics.

Sushant Singh Rajput secured admission in the Delhi College of Engineering to pursue a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.

Sushant Singh Rajput instead wanted to become an astronaut and later an air force pilot but was interested in Bollywood, being a fan of Shah Rukh Khan.

Sushant Singh Rajput later stated that he found the experience to be liberating and wanted to continue doing it forever.

Sushant Singh Rajput featured as a background dancer in the Dhoom Again song of Dhoom 2 and in Aishwarya Rai's performance at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Sushant Singh Rajput moved to Mumbai, took up odd jobs and small roles alongside working in the theatre industry.

Sushant Singh Rajput eventually joined Nadira Babbar's theatre group called the Ekjute in which he remained for two and a half years.

Sushant Singh Rajput was spotted by a casting team of Balaji Telefilms while he was working at the Prithvi Theatre.

Sushant Singh Rajput was called for an audition and cast as a second lead in the television series Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil in 2008.

In Pavitra Rishta, Sushant Singh Rajput was cast as Manav Deshmukh who was an "ideal son and husband" and co-starred along with Ankita Lokhande.

Sushant Singh Rajput won three major television awards in the categories of best male actor and most popular actor.

Sushant Singh Rajput continued to act in Pavitra Rishta from its first airing in 2009 till his exit in 2011, having played the part of the protagonist of the series for two and a half years at the time of his exit.

Sushant Singh Rajput 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 was an assistant director.

Sushant Singh Rajput made a later reappearance in the final episode of Pavitra Rishta in 2014 after gaining critical acclaim in Bollywood.

Sushant Singh Rajput was in the process of enrolling for a course in filmmaking at Stanford University but decided to accept the offer.

Sushant Singh Rajput received a nomination for the Filmfare Awards in the category of best debut actor for his performance in the film.

Sushant Singh Rajput entered into a deal with Yash Raj Films beginning with the starring role in the film Shuddh Desi Romance.

The film was a romantic comedy, where Sushant Singh Rajput played the character of Raghu Ram Sitaram, a tour guide who fell in love with a woman on the way to his own marriage, it featured Parineeti Chopra and Vaani Kapoor.

Sushant Singh Rajput began working on the new project following the release of his second film Shuddh Desi Romance.

In September 2013, Sushant Singh Rajput began collaborating with Shekhar Kapur for his upcoming project Paani, a film set in the future that showcased a world where wars where being fought over water.

Sushant Singh Rajput had reportedly attended workshops with Kapur for 10 months before the project was suspended in 2015 when the Yash Raj Films backed out of it.

In 2011, a biopic on the life of the Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Sushant Singh Rajput Dhoni was conceived by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey.

Sushant Singh Rajput received critical acclaim for his performance and nominations to a number of awards, including the Filmfare Awards, the International Indian Film Academy Awards and the winning nomination at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.

Sushant Singh Rajput made a cameo appearance in the comedy film Welcome to New York, which was released on 23 February 2018 and where the lead characters met Rajput but confused him for Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The second biopic that Sushant Singh Rajput was to feature in was tentatively titled as Murli: The Unsung Hero, where he would play the role of the disabled jawan turned Paralympics gold medalist Murlikant Petkar.

Sushant Singh Rajput was cast as the lead in the spy thriller film Romeo Akbar Walter in 2017, however he quit the project in the same year reportedly causing displeasure to the producer Bunty Walia who had publicised the film with him on the cover.

Sushant Singh Rajput played the character of Mansoor, a Muslim porter who was a devotee of Lord Shiva and whose livelihood revolved around the Shiv temple at Kedarnath.

On 2 May 2018, Sushant Singh Rajput was inducted as a partner in a company named Innsaei Ventures, which was founded on 26 April 2018; following which he was appointed as one of its three directors, the others being Varun Mathur and Saurabh Mishra.

Sushant Singh Rajput was named Innsaei after the Icelandic word for Institution and marketed as working in the fields related to intellectual property and emerging technologies.

In early 2018, Sushant Singh Rajput began shooting for the film Sonchiriya.

The film was directed by Abhishek Chaubey, produced by Ronnie Screwvala and featured the real life character of Daku Man Sushant Singh Rajput, played by Bajpayee.

Sushant Singh Rajput was to feature in Rifleman, but the film got into legal trouble over copyright issues shortly after its announcement and could not be made.

Sushant Singh Rajput had opted out of the production of Chanda Mama Door Ke in the previous year citing timing conflict in scheduling for its shooting and had stated that he would produce his own space film through Innsaei Ventures.

In September 2019, a second company named Vividrage Rhealtyx was registered with a paid up capital of 1 lakh ; Sushant Singh Rajput became one of the three directors of the company, the others being Rhea Chakraborty and Showik Chakraborty.

On 6 January 2020, Sushant Singh Rajput founded a nonprofit organisation named Front India for World Foundation with the stated intent of working towards the eradication of poverty, hunger and malnutrition and promotion of better healthcare and sanitation.

Since 2017, Sushant Singh Rajput was signed in for the directorial debut of Mukesh Chhabra; Fox Star Studios had employed Chhabra for a Hindi language remake of The Fault in Our Stars, a Hollywood hit film produced by 20th Century Fox.

Sushant Singh Rajput co-starred alongside Sanjana Sanghi and played the character of Manny, a patient of the bone cancer osteosarcoma; the role in the Hindi remake was a reprisal of the role of Ansel Elgort.

The director Uday Singh Gauri claimed after Rajput's death that he was in talks with him about a film based on the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

In 2011, Sushant Singh Rajput publicly proposed to his Pavitra Rishta co-star Ankita Lokhande during a national broadcast of the dance competition show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa; both of them had participated in the show as competing contestants.

In January 2016, Sushant Singh Rajput confirmed that a lavish wedding would take place in December, but the relationship ended prior to that, with the pair maintaining silence on the reasons for the cancellation.

Sushant Singh Rajput was rumored to be dating his Raabta co-star Kriti Sanon which was denied by both of them.

In 2017, Sushant Singh Rajput courted controversy when he came out in support of the producers of Padmaavat whose sets were vandalised by members of the Sushant Singh Rajput Karni Sena.

Sushant Singh Rajput had a collection of 125 books including a six-volume theoretical physics series.

Sushant Singh Rajput stated in an August 2017 interview that his collection was not for film research, but covered personal interests in multiple disciplines, including cognitive science and behavioral economics.

Sushant Singh Rajput was reportedly an avid reader who would bring books during tours for film shooting.

The rumours were never confirmed as before the two supposedly broke up, Sushant Singh Rajput refused to comment on the claims.

Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput were occasionally spotted on "dates" and outings in Mumbai, and on a vacation to the Himalayan region of Ladakh.

Sushant Singh Rajput had reportedly shown signs of clinical depression and was suffering from bipolar disorder.

Sushant Singh Rajput requested an investigation into whether these had resulted in his suicide or a decline in his mental state.