Salman Khan and his family sabotaged my films: Abhinav Kashyap lashes out at superstar after Sushant's death
Mumbai/IBNS: In another callout of Bollywood's powerful personalities following the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, filmmaker Abhinav Singh Kashyap slammed superstar Salman Khan and his family for allegedly sabotaging his own films besides ruining him mentally.
Joining the pot-boiling issue of "Bollywood's nepotism", Abhinav accused Salman's actor-producer brother Arbaaz Khan and his family of "bullying" him forcing the filmmaker to walk out of Dabangg 2.
Abhinav wrote in a long post on Facebook, "The reason I moved out of making Dabangg 2 ten years ago is because Arbaaz Khan in collusion with Sohail Khan and family was trying to take control of my career by bullying me. Arbaaz Khan sabotaged my second project with Shree Ashtavinayak Films that I was signed up with by personally calling their head Mr. Raj Mehta and threatening him with dire consequences if they made a film with me.
"I had to return the signing money to Shree Ashtavinayak films and moved to Viacom Pictures. They did the same thing."
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Abhinav, the brother of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, then went on to accuse Salman of sabotaging the release of 'Besharam' but he managed to get his film released with the support of Reliance Entertainment.
"Mr. Salman Khan and family sabotaged the release of the film and got their PROs to run a sustained negative smear campaign against me and my film BESHARAM before release. This scared the distributors from buying my film. Reliance Entertainment and I were capable and courageous enough to release the film ourselves but the battle had just begun..," he wrote.
The Bollywood biggies like Salman, Karan Johar and even popular actress Alia Bhatt were slammed by netizens for allegedly encouraging "nepotism" in Bollywood following the suicide of Suahant who was reportedly suffering from mental depression.
Though the actual cause of Sushant's suicide is yet unknown, actress Kangana Ranaut accused the Hindi film industry of pushing the 'Raabta' star to the brink of taking the extreme step.
She said Sushant's death has left her devastated but the 'Queen' actress slammed the 'parallel narrative' over the issue.
Kangana said she fails to understand how some are saying that people with weak mind commit suicide by getting depressed.
"A guy who has a scholarship from Stanford... he is a rank holder of his engineering entrance, how can his mind be weak?" she asked in the video shared by her team on Instagram.
She also called out the awards and accolade system and said, "Disgusting films like Gully Boy gets all awards but no one acknowledged great ones like 'Chhichhore'."
"We don't want anything from you, just appreciate the good works we do. My own films go unnoticed. People find Sanjay Dutt's addiction very cute but sycophant journalists call me or people like Sushant psychotic or neurotic or addict. Why are they pushing me towards suicide? Was his death suicide or a planned murder?"
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