Now, two state governments are against each other...someone has passed away, is there no dignity or what?
Renuka Shahane has, in a series of tweets, voiced what she’s feeling about the developments in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. When we reached out to her, the actor says the only people who need to know the truth, more than anyone, are Rajput’s family.
“It’s so sad, the whole conversation is conducted on social media or media... somebody says something, and the entire focus is on that. We’re not giving police space to conduct their investigation the way they want to. Then, there is political pressure. We want to know the truth, but is this the way you keep shifting goalposts, targeting people on the basis of nothing?” she says. What also irked Shahane, 55, was a tweet by Amruta Fadnavis, wife of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, stating Mumbai has “lost humanity”. “What got my goat was people accusing Mumbai of not having a heart. Where’s that coming from? Amruta Fadnavis has a lot of power, not like you and me. If there’s something definite, and you want to come out and accuse, what’s stopping you? But you’re shifting blame to some things nameless and faceless like Mumbai city,” she maintains.
Happy with the decision to hand over probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as she feels it will put several speculations to rest, the actor says, “They should get to the bottom of it. It’s been a long time since his death. If the reason of his death was suicide and if there were abetters, they should be held guilty. If it is a murder, the murderers should be caught.”
Shahane, who was Rajput’s co-contestant in Jhalak
Dikhla Jaa, feels the case has become Bihar vs Mumbai now. “Are we getting closer to the truth? No. We’ll take longer because now, two state governments are against each other. For heaven’s sake, one person has tragically passed away, there’s no dignity or what? All you want to do is point fingers. Today, the target is nepo kids, tomorrow, the gangs of Bollywood,” retorts the actor, whose husband, Ashutosh Rana, worked with Rajput in Sonchiriya (2019).
What she also finds “ridiculous” is people trying to pretend to be “closer”. She adds, “Sab apni apni roti sek rahe hain. I can understand if they’ve got problems with the conclusion, par aane toh do.”
Miffed with news channels which are airing dramatic reenactments of Rajput’s postmortem using mannequins, Shahane asks, “Can you get lower? Is this the kind of thing that’s going to get you closer to the truth?”