BOMBAY TIMES (September 3, 2020)

In the months since the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, several titles have been registered for films based on his life. Now, while speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Sushant’s family’s lawyer Vikas Singh threatened legal action against those who make any piece of work based on the late actor without the family’s okay. “Through this press conference I’d like to inform everyone that (Sushant’s) father and sisters have taken a decision that no film, serial or book should be written about SSR without the express consent of Sushant’s father, without the script being shown to the father, and the family consenting to the script or the book or the serial or the film. In spite of this, if anyone goes ahead with such a project, appropriate action will be taken to ensure that such an action be properly and legally thwarted,” Singh said.

A couple of weeks ago, a source from a producers’ association told us, “We’ve received applications for three film titles related to Sushant Singh Rajput. The requests that we have received are for Sushant Singh Rajput – Biography, Sushant, and The Unsolved Murder Mystery – Rajput.”

Apart from these, an upcoming film, titled Shashank, allegedly based on Sushant’s life, has run into trouble after Sushant’s sister Shweta Singh Kirti called for a boycott of the film. While Sushant’s lookalike, Sachin Tiwari, was initially roped in to play the male lead, he has now been replaced by Aarya Babbar. In a recent chat, Aarya told us, “Shashank is about the soul of every small-town girl and boy, who wants to make it big in the industry, but is sadly pushed around. People are assuming that the film is about one person.”