A HORROR FILM OF ITS OWN
Oct 10, 2020
5 minutes
BY SUHANI SINGH
PRATIK CHORGE/ GETTY IMAGES
People have noticed the gender bias in the NCB’s investigation and the agency, keen to redeem itself, has revealed that it will soon be questioning three male actors
Bollywood is currently going through a PR crisis, one that it didn’t see coming. It began on June 14 when actor Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide—a conclusion that Mumbai Police arrived at long ago and one that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences recently confirmed. There was shock; condolences were expressed, as were regrets about being too occupied with one’s own affairs. But, along with grief, came a torpedo of accusations against the “movie mafia”, “nepo gang”, and a “drug nexus” within the film industry. Never has the industry faced such large-scale contempt, as a result of which it is now shying away from the very spotlight it is in the business of
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