Throwback to when Sushant Singh Rajput revealed what he’d do if he didn’t debut in films
Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput once revealed that if he failed to make his debut in the film industry, he’d make his ‘own films’, for which he would run a canteen in Mumbai’s Film City, then make a documentary on it and also star in it.
Sharing his backup plan with a leading web portal during an interview in 2015, Sushant said, “When I quit television, people told me, you are doing a filmmaking course but what if you don’t get a film? I said, ‘I will make my own films’. I had decided that if that happens, I will start a canteen in Film City and I will buy a camera and make my own short film about the canteen and feature in it too. And I know I would be as excited about that as I am right now.”
“That was not plan B; that was to spend time in Film City because I love Film City. It’s the only place in Mumbai where everybody is shooting something. It’s because of the place it is that I thought of opening a canteen there. I can eat and I can enjoy watching films and I can actually shoot my short film, so that was the place to be,” the late actor further added.
Sushant Singh Rajput became popular with Ekta Kapoor’s TV show Pavitra Rishta. He made his debut in the film industry through Kai Po Che!, following which he starred in several films like Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, Raabta, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story and Chhichhore. He last featured in Dil Bechara before he passed away at the age of 34 in June 2020.
