# RanchiMall Content Collaboration Output

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Indian Politics and Media

A real life Bollywood drama began on 14th June, 2020 when a Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput died in his Mumbai Apartment. When this news came, all were shattered and shocked. Electronic media was flooded with his interview, videos, Bollywood celebrities mocking him, people making random speculations, debates going on among people on nepotism, favoritism, sycophancy. We also saw people spreading awareness about mental health, people talking about their battle with depression, though this is the positive aspect of the case, but people addressing SSR as depressed, bipolar, mentally ill without any of these proven was baseless. Not only political parties but many Bollywood celebrities were also a part of that. Nobody was discussing the actual reason for his death. Rather than justice it becomes a social gossip. Indian media also took the death of an actor as an opportunity. For three months, they are only focusing on private life of actor's, and not about Covid-19, Relations between India and China or Nepal, Economy crisis, and Agriculture problems. Netizens started using hashtags in their social media accounts such as #BoycottBollywood, #JusticeforSushant, #BoycottNepotism etc. Many have started dragging their personal and political interests in this case, as this case has been the talk of the nation from the start. Over the months we have seen this case several turns like linking of SSR’s deaths to death of his manager Disha, scams related to SSR’s money, involvement of drugs, inefficiency or concealment of facts by Maharashtra police claimed by many, non-cooperation between Bihar Police and Maharashtra police, getting Bihar’s police officer quarantined, unnecessary intervening, passing of the statements by several influential people, and what not. Politician and Ministers took actors death as a chance to attack opposition rustic virtue of Bihar unlike Mumbai's wickedness. They wholly know how to take advantage and turn it into their profit for upcoming election. Now it almost seems people are now chewing this topic, even after CBI has taken this matter in their hands. Indian Media especially has a big role in creating buzz about this case both positively and negatively, but the negative part has overshadowed the positive side, they know that people have involved their emotions in this case so, they are attracting viewership out of it by broadcasting SSR news day and night. The case turned when the late actor was charged to be corrupted by drugs. Whereas one of the leading news channels turned to Rhea Chakraborty Mr. Rajput's girlfriend portraying her as the antagonist of the story. These strategies in Rajput's case has certainly distracted public's attention from the real problem to the drama of Bollywood. Now news is all filled with a fallen star, a villainous girlfriend, an out spoken actress, inept cops and three letter agencies. There are various political issues in Mumbai, Kangana Ranaut the actress who came forward with her bold views about film industry. She even linked the case with Maharashtra government, and accused Uddhav Thakre of protecting film industry stars. It seems there are other political parties who are promoting her. A real life tragic death has turned into a crucial opportunity for media and politicians to make profit out of it.

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