BIG REVELATION: SUSHANT'S CLOSE FRIEND "PD" OPENS UP ABOUT RHEA CHAKRABORTY, SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION! DETAILS

Indian author Pankaj Dubey, who is one of Sushant’s close friends shared his thoughts about their friendship, the depression theory and other details pertaining to the case while talking to Republic Media Network. 

While speaking about the late actor’s diary, he said Sushant was interested in discussing various projects.  Pankaj said, "Sushant was quite a motivated guy and he always dreamt of doing better. He always wanted to expand and he was superb at multitasking. So he was everything but depressed. He always had things planned and wanted to execute them passionately. He had the plan of going 'glocal' (global + local). We used to sit and talk about it. People would not know that he had a flair to write stuff. He would come up with new ideas. He used to plan his Hollywood ventures and how he could do better in India."

When asked about the allegations pertaining to the actor’s mental health, he said "I look at some news pieces with doubt when people have been trying to just underline just about his issues with depression because we did a lot of things together. He was an extraordinary guy with the courage to dream big." He was of the firm view that the actor did not suffer from depression. He said, "He was of sound mind with a lot of sanity, and was better than many other people. I would say I am not a mental health expert but going by experience, he was quite fit. He was mentally fit as far as my experience goes.”

He also felt that other people are deliberately trying to prove that he was mentally unstable. "They must be saying this because they are medically qualified to say such random stuff. There is a narrative which is tried to be pushed which is now being investigated and it should be thoroughly investigated I feel,” Pankaj said.

Pankaj felt that after Rhea entered Sushant’s life, his access to Sushant gradually declined "And eventually what happened was that we had to reach him through Rhea. We had to message her about his availability. So, this became quite funny and became quite discouraging for friends. This is a strange narrative that he did not like his family or vice versa," Pankaj said. April 2020 was the last time he spoke to Sushant, he added.

He strongly believes that the death of the actor, does not look like a suicide to him. "I don't think this is suicide. To me, it occurs a case of homicide and even I demand that there should be a CBI inquiry in this case," he stated

Sushant Singh Rajput reportedly died by suicide at his Bandra residence on June 14. 

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