To Our Legendary Sushant Singh Rajput – The Perfectionist!

Love is so short, forgetting is so long .
Can’t stop thinking about you Sushant, aka Gulshan Bhaiya.💔

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”

– Pablo Neruda .

I read this line post 14th June 2020 on SSR’s Insta profile, fell in love with it along with his many other #selfmusing thoughts. I had the privilege of seeing Gulshan Bhaiya during our childhood days.

I am an IT professional. I had taken a break from Facebook for around an year , never really used Instagram or Twitter much but since 14th June I have been hyperactive on social media. My mind’s been constantly thinking about him, about how we have lost a gem so soon, about the truth behind his passing away.

My heart is still not able to accept that he is gone, so sometimes I want to believe that I am in the midst of a long nightmare, sometimes while watching his fun videos I want to forget the reality & cherish his beautiful memories.

I am a fan of quite a few celebrities , but what matters to me the most is how he/she as a person. I never really follow them much on social media.

I wish I had followed Sushant because he was worth one. I had watched a few interviews of him before, like that of other celebrities but that was it …I loved his work in all his movies that I had seen especially Kai Po Che and MSD – The Untold Story, a late riser like me woke up early even before my alarm rang only to watch my favorites- MSD & SSR on screen. I so loved him as Ishaan in Kai Po Che, no wonder why Sushant changed his plans due to this movie .

After MSD I wanted to drop him a message on social media about how crazy I was about him but did not, thinking it would be cheesy. I can proudly say I have watched most of his movies in the theatre. I missed Kedarnath due to personal reasons .My husband loved Chhichhore so much that he watched it multiple times in the theatre, once even alone . I loved SSR as a person.

In his interviews I always found him humble, loving and grounded despite being a genius. I loved his dancing in Jhalak and his work in the few episodes I had seen of Pavitra Rishta. Such a dreamer+ doer he was! “जाए वहीं ले जाए जहाँ ,बेसब्रियां….”

I remember vividly one fine day during college days my mom called up to share the news that “hamari colony ke bhaiya” was going to feature on the TV show -Pavitra Rishta . Uncle had come to our place with the super news . I didn’t know Gulshan Bhaiya much except about the location of his house , his coming to the playground in the evening and playing with other bhaiyas ,his sister riding bullet in our galli .

I basically knew him more as that super cool didi’s cute brother . Every time didi would cross our house on her bullet I would watch her awestruck and admire her. After I saw him on TV I naturally stopped calling him “bhaiya”, how could I call someone so hot & cute as bhaiya now 🤭. His sparkling eyes filled with dreams and his killer smile are mesmerizing..💔 (can’t talk about him in past tense)

I always used to boast about Sushant hailing from my galli near my friends, and why not? Because I have always been proud of his personality and work.

A piece of our heart is lost with the going away of someone we love. The void is never filled . Our world needs kind/hard working/real/smart people and whenever such people leave us it is heart-wrenching, it’s becomes a great loss to humanity. To me such people are legendary .

SSR was one such gem , a polymath. He had plans to do so much for the society. He was already working on few of his dream projects. Try finding one celebrity with such level of talent in the glamour industry and you will fail for sure!!

Our corrupt society doesn’t really deserve such goodness . Someday during this lock-down we were discussing about how every individual should be trained.

Each should be given basic Army training in a sense that we all should experience that feeling of kindness ,selflessness, sacrifice for the good of the world. May be such lessons should be a part of our school’s curriculum along with other important aspects which are missing at present.

Our world needs to do better not just in terms of advancing science & technology but also in terms of re-establishing the lost humanity. Quoting Sushant’s another #selfmusing thought : “ Nothing ,absolutely nothing makes sense except love .”

Needless to say legends like Sushant Singh Rajput, Irrfan Khan from the Bollywood industry, our Army personnel , the “honest” doctors, the “honest” politicians & police, social activists etc. and every common man with goodness in their hearts are immortal.

Sometimes I wonder how the after life would be. We can only imagine, it is beyond our reach. May be the good souls chill out there, may be Sushant is now with his Mom forever. I truly wish and pray that those beautiful souls are at peace up there.❤️