Real-life is brutal than 120 minutes on 70 mm.ĪLSO READ | Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide at Mumbai homeĪLSO READ | Goodbye, Sushant Singh Rajput. In fact, Digvijay Deshmukh, who played the role of young Ali in Abhishek Kapoor's Kai Po Che is still not able to fathom that the actor is no more.Ĭall it the irony of life, in his last film, Sushant counselled his on screen teenage son, who tried to commit suicide after failing an entrance exam, telling him stories of underdogs. "Dhoni after watching me play had said that Sushant can easily play Ranji Trophy," Sushant had said with a wide grin during the promotion of his last released film Chhichhore, where cricket was a part of the climax. He got that gait, the mannerism and the helicopter shot so perfectly, that he became Dhoni. He gave everyone a sneak peek into Dhoni''s life.
To that school match he won, to that tennis ball 'khep' (a term used for games in Bengal) in Kharagpur or dealing with selection heartbreaks or romancing his wife Sakshi, Sushant was the gateway to the Dhoni no one knew before or never knew after. Sushant, who committed suicide at his Mumbai home on Sunday, took fans to places where an introvert Dhoni, fiercely guarded about his private life, never took anyone. It wasn't a cinematic masterpiece like late Irrfan Khan's Paan Singh Tomar,' but there was hardly anyone who disliked Neeraj Pandey's feel-good blockbuster either.