- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- Prince
- Gulshan
- SSR
- Height5′ 10¼″ (1.78 m)
- Sushant Singh Rajput was born on January 21, 1986 in Purnia, Bihar to K. K. Singh and Usha Singh. He has 4 sisters (i.e. Neetu, Meetu, Priyanka & Shweta). He was an Indian television & film actor, dancer and entrepreneur. He became a household name after playing the role of Manav in the TV series, Pavitra Rishta (2009) on Zee TV. He made his Bollywood debut with Kai Po Che (2013), directed by Abhishek Kapoor, which was adapted from Chetan Bhagat's novel, The 3 Mistake of My Life, and then launched himself to soaring heights in the film industry. He also worked in movies like Shuddh Desi Romance (2013), PK (2014), Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Raabta (2017), Kedarnath (2018), Sonchiriya (2019), Chhichhore (2019) and Netflix film Drive (2019). He died on June 14, 2020 at his Mumbai residence. His last film, Dil Bechara (2020) was released on July 24, 2020 as a free film on Disney+ Hotstar Multiplex.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bhanu Pratap Baxla
- ParentsKrishna Kumar SinghUsha Singh
- RelativesMeetu Singh(Sibling)Neetu Singh(Sibling)Shweta Singh Kirti(Sibling)Priyanka Singh(Sibling)Badavath Shashank(Niece or Nephew)
- He was a National Physics Olympiad winner and cleared as many as 11 engineering entrance exam.
- He secured rank 7 in DCE (now known as DTU) Entrance Examination and he dropped out of the same after 3rd year.
- Starred in the Maddock Films shelved movie "Takadum" (2017) starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra, Irrfan Khan, produced by Dinesh Vijan, directed by Homi Adajania.
- Sushant owned a piece of lunar land. He used to spot his land from his telescope.
- I might not be over-enthusiastic about socializing and making friends, but I am not a loner. I love hanging out with my friends, and I do it often when I am not working. Maybe, since I am not often invited to the 'happening' parties of our industry, where the media is around, I have earned the reputation of being a loner.
- [on nepotism] Over a period of time, if we keep giving chances to people who don't have any talent or skills, then eventually, we will create an unbalanced equation. The whole industry will collapse because the target audience is being exposed to wonderful international cinema and talent. We are yet to reach that tipping point, but we must never take the audience's understanding and our relevance for granted.
- Individuals can benefit from Nepotism and can thrive. But in the long run the practice could be fatal to an unstructured industry.
- You look in one direction, and you find mediocrity and nepotism thriving, and you can't come up with a logical reason to explain it. In the other direction, you see immense respect for passion, talent and professionalism, irrespective of being an insider or an outsider.
- [on maintaining distance from media] I have my reasons. Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself? How many interviews and questions does it take to tell everyone what you think? There are many things you can say once you cultivate your opinion, and that comes with experience, which - at this point - I don't have much of.
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