Just let Sushant be, pleads Anubhav Sinha

when you’re doing rather well. We need to keep quiet but a lot has been spoken about, and I suspect there is some politics that has gotten into it, and that’s not good for anybody -- not for the boy at all,” he added.

The filmmaker feels one needs to be sensitive towards Sushant’s family.

“They need to think about him and his family. Every day there is some drama or the other, which is disturbing. I didn’t know him, I never met him, but I am disturbed. He was just 34. I made my first film at 36 and he was younger than that. I personally think that this entire discussion is pretty agenda driven and that is the reason why I don’t want to participate in it,” he added.

Sinha admits that there is imbalance of power in Bollywood, but it is not something new.

“In any era, there have been more powerful people than the rest, and I am not only talking about Bollywood. So that is not something new.

It is the order of the world that some people have more power than the rest -- which according to me is not fine but that is how the world is,” noted the filmmaker.

He added: “Most businesses are so ruthless. It’s about me having the larger market share, me having a better number of stock exchanges. Our business is such that it deals with human beings. So, every product is a human being, it could be a director, an actor, or a DOP.”

“So, while we are a business, we are very vulnerable human beings. We should be kind to each other and we should be mindful of each other, our insecurities and each other’s happiness. There is a place for everyone to be happy,” he concluded on a hopeful note.