The postmortem of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who committed suicide at his residence yesterday, has been conducted at Dr RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital, and the details of the report are awaited, news agency ANI reported.
Mumbai's BMC had said in a statement: "The body of Sushant Singh Rajput was brought to the Emergency Department of Cooper Hospital, BMC this afternoon (June 14, 2020) at around 3.30pm. The medical officer examined the body and said that the actor was declared dead at around 4pm. And after completing the paperwork, the body was handed over to the police."
Zee News had quoted DCP Abhishek Trimukhe as saying: "Prima facie, this looks like a case of suicide. No suspicious thing was found at the spot."
Rajput's suicide had taken the whole of Bollywood by shock. He was a quintessential Bollywood outsider who impressed everyone with his debut film Kai Po Che! in 2013. With critically praised roles in PK, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, Kedarnath, Sonchiriya and Chhichhore, he proved that his success was not a fluke.
Chhichhore ironically saw him playing a father who helps his son with messages of hope and affirmation after the youngster attempts suicide. The film also helped Rajput relive his engineering days, a course that he left to pursue stardom, first as a dancer and then as an actor.
He enrolled in celebrated choreographer Shiamak Davar's dance classes, later joining acting guru Barry John's classes. As a struggling actor, he juggled between theatre and dancer. He appeared in Dhoom Again with Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the 2006 film Dhoom 2.
But it was the small screen that gave his breakout role as the mild-mannered Manav in Ekta Kapoor's soap opera Pavitra Rishta in 2009. He previously starred in a supporting role in Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, also backed by Kapoor. In 2011, he quit Pavitra Rishta, in which he starred opposite then girlfriend Ankita Lokhande, to pursue a filmmaking course abroad.
Two years later, he made his Bollywood debut in Kai Po Che!, the screen adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's Three Mistakes of My Life, along with Rajkummar Rao and Amit Sadh. Rajput was one of those rare actors from the current generation who worked with prominent directors. He worked with Rajkumar Hirani (PK), Maneesh Sharma (Shuddh Desi Romance), Abhishek Kapoor (Kai Po Che!, Kedarnath) , Abhishek Chaubey (Sonchiriya), Dibakar Banerjee (Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!), and Nitesh Tiwari (Chhichhore).
He hit a rough patch in 2015 when the ambitious Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, in which he starred as the titular character, did not do well at the box office. He saw a resurgence as Dhoni the next year.
-Inputs from PTI
