‘SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE WORST DRUG’

Kavita Kaushik feels that Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case has turned into a social media circus

Kavita Kaushik feels that Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case has turned into a social media circus

Much like her fellow colleagues, actor Kavita Kaushik, too, is angered to see the way people are jumping the gun in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case. Asserting that one should let law take its course, she is against the agendadriven conversations happening around the case.

“We should be sad that the one who’s gone will never return. Par hum toh apne baki cheezon mein lagey pade hain. It’s been over two months,” rues Kaushik. She also points how narratives have been shifting, further complicating the case. “It started from mental health, then went on to nepotism, insider-outsider debate, and now it’s drugs... Kya hamara dhyan baki aur zazoori cheezon se hataya ja raha hai? This case is being politicised right now,” adds Kaushik, 39.

Upset with the blame game and name calling on social media, she says, “Social media is the worst drug. Look at the language, threats, abuses being hurled at people and the random judgements being passed. We must protest, seek justice. I also want to know what happened with Sushant, but what is this circus happening?”

Meanwhile, given that the industry is anyway going through a rough patch due to the pandemic, Kaushik isn’t in any rush to take up just any work that comes her way. “I’d rather sit at home and play with my cats than be a part of supernatural shows or shows portraying typical Indian women whose entire life revolves around the kitchen... No one has offered me anything reasonably interesting yet, which’d coerce me to get going with my sanitisers and 10 packs of masks,” she tells us.

Everyone is saying something or the other and changing their words to suit their vested interests. KAVITA KAUSHIK, actor