Rishabh Suri (HINDUSTAN TIMES; September 11, 2020)

Actor Adhyayan Suman, who plays a debauch rockstar in his latest web show, feels the current phase in his career has come after a long time. He has also released a tribute to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a rehashed version of the song Jab Tak from M S Dhoni - The Untold Story (2016). “It’s been 11 years since I saw success after Raaz: The Mystery Continues. I can say that I am getting my due as an artist now,” he says.

Suman is happy with the response his web show received. As his character is addicted to drugs, and also because he himself has been around in the industry for a decade, we ask him whether the current prevailing debate about the drug culture in Bollywood is true. He says while the notion about everyone doing it is wrong, it does exist. “I have been to such parties, and 99% of people weren’t doing drugs. There is a group of people who are into this. I don’t know why the industry is being targeted. Don’t business or corporate people do it? If we are eventually looking at a clean up drive, it should happen all over the world, not just the film industry,” he shares.

Suman adds that it is wrong “to blame everyone”. “We are tarnishing their reputation, there’s a family behind them. I have said it earlier, too, that I was influenced to do hash four-five times, that’s the only thing I did. No one from the industry can stand up and say ‘Adhyayan used to do drugs with me’, I have never done it.”