Anurag had disclosed shortly after Sushant’s death that he had refuted to speak with him about a project because he was angry of being ghosted by the actor in the past. The latest news is that Anurag has expressed regret on not working with SSR after his many requests prior to his death.
“It’s taken me a year-and-a-half of sickness to realise a lot of things. I was so reactive; I would say things. I would say things out of anger, out of reaction, to things I felt perturbed by. It took me time to realise that I’m shouting, I’m shouting in a room full of people shouting. Nobody’s listening to each other, not just to me. That’s what social media has become. And I stepped back. I said, ‘Why am I reacting to this? What is bothering me?” Bollywood Hungama quoted Anurag as saying.
He added, “A lot has changed, but I know I have no filter. But it’s also made me realise I don’t need to say everything… For example, that whole spat between me and Abhay. Somebody was doing an article about why a very good actor like Abhay is no longer in the movies, and I spoke about my experiences, something that happened 13 years ago. I didn’t need to say it publicly. And the day the unfortunate incident happened of SSR, I felt so bad. Three weeks prior to that somebody was trying to reach out because he wanted to talk, and I was like, ‘No, he ghosted me, I don’t want to talk’. You get pangs of guilt. So, I tried to reach out to Abhay and I apologised to him, because somebody had told me that he was upset about me speaking publicly about him.”
Anurag stated that he told Abhay that it was okay to yell at him and then apologised time and again for what he stated. However, Abhay seemed to be disappointed about what Anurag had said about him as recently as last month. As per Mid-day, Abhay termed the filmmaker a “liar” and a “toxic” person. Anurag admitted that they had both changed and showed regret for what he had said.
During an NDTV interview, Abhay, in 2020, had said that he was upset that Sushant had exited out of projects with him in favour of increased high-profile jobs. He said, “YRF called him and said, ‘We’ll give you a deal. You do Shuddh Desi Romance.’ Sushant, who used to sit in my office with Mukesh and all of us used to sit together, signed up with YRF and dropped Hasee Toh Phasee, a film of an outsider because usko validation YRF ka chahiye tha (he wanted validation from YRF). It’s with every actor, so I am not holding any grudges… Years later, in 2016, before the release of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, Mukesh went to Sushant and said, ‘Anurag has written a script looking for an actor who can play someone based out of Uttar Pradesh.’ Dhoni released, became a success and he never called me back. I was not upset, I moved on, I did Mukkabaaz.”
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