| But according to insiders, what really broke Sush’s back and heart beyond repair was her scandalous relationship with a diamond-vending industrialist. Sush was already dating Young Turk, Randeep Hooda when the industrialist gentleman came into her life and the two began a sordid affair. Her friends may have wanted to advise her otherwise, but no one really had any say. Sushmita always wore her heart on her sleeve and more often than not called the shots in her previous relationships. This was an unusual territory for her, as not only could she not proclaim her real affections but also had to conduct matters undercover.
There were people who even believed that all her subsequent relationships (that didn’t last long) were a cover for the real man behind the picture. After all, there was a lot at stake here for both the concerned parties. As her own deceptions of the world grew, so did her distrust towards it. Sushmita now wouldn’t even let more than a handful of people close to her. The people’s person had turned into a recluse, given the circumstances she had put herself into.
Sushmita had made herself unavailable to any and every filmmaker around her. If there was anything that kept her going was her ambitious International project ‘Rani Laxmibai’. The project was conceived more than two years ago and Sush had launched into extensive research that would go into the making of the film.
Two years hence the film has yet to take off; there isn’t even an official announcement either. And Sush is partly to blame too. She can’t be such a perfectionist putting even Aamir to shame that she has gone through five script writers and two years to reach the final draft of the script.
Meanwhile her other international project, ‘Karma, Konfessions and Holi’ has yet to see the light of the day. A film with Fardeen and SRK is stuck in the cans too and if Sush is looking for support from the industry in this hour of need, its not coming. Her ‘let-loose’ self that’s seen in a recent anti-aging commercial (hell, she needs that too) isn’t the only reason she isn’t finding many takers in the industry.
Sushmita had shut the door on many a names, including some of her own friends when she was in her ‘hiatus’. And those doors aren’t opening today for her. Farah Khan who’d had given Sush ‘Main Hoon Na’ over SRK’s choice Aishwarya, was made to run around in circles when she wanted Sush to make an appearance in her ‘OSO’ number.
When Rekha to Tabu to Karisma, all lent their star power to the song, Sush asked Farah to get in touch with her office and send a detailed proposal regarding the same. Our industry works on goodwill and genuine gestures and not reams of drafts and faxes. Farah dropped the idea of having Sush from her list of star performers, and she wasn’t missed in the least bit. Farah Khan isn’t the only name that’s ruled Sush out from their good books, there are quite a few.
But what has led Sush to operation damage control, if she sees it that way, is the fact that she has fallen out of favour with her industrialist lover. Grapevine has it that the man has moved on, leaving Sush behind to count her losses; and they are aplenty. Totally dejected and disillusioned, Sush has let herself go off late, which is evident in her recent avatar that you are faced with today.
Her feisty declarations seem nothing more than hollow words of self-assurance from her. Sush’s exclusivity was once her forte, on the basis of which she could command a higher price than the biggest of names on show circuit. Now Sush will be seen on a TV show that to our eyes doesn’t befit her Queen like status. Or maybe we just have too many expectations from Sush. Maybe she is not the Queen we want her to be; maybe she isn’t the Diva we see in her.
Maybe that overwhelming aura was just a shadow of something real; maybe the glorious picture of today’s woman she painted was only a mirage. Who knew the role model would recoil into herself and threaten to sink into oblivion. Over to you Sush, prove us wrong. We’d want you to. And please don’t say, ‘What a waste it is to live trying to prove someone else wrong’. You’ve said that already.
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