Chhichhore (2019), the actor plays the father of a troubled boy about to give the national engineering entrance exam. He doesn’t succeed and, mortified at the thought of disappointing his parents, both of whom were at the National Institution of Technology (a stand-in for IIT), he throws himself off the roof.
The rest of the film is Rajput relating the story of his college days to his critically injured son to get him to realize that suicide isn’t a solution.
Chhichhore saw middling reviews and huge commercial success when it opened in September last year. For the worst reasons, it’s unbearably poignant now.Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide on the morning of 14 June, at his home in Bandra, Mumbai.