The demise of a young movie star has transfixed India like no other news in a year of bad headlines.
Media personnel surround Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty as she arrives at Narcotics Control Bureau office for questioning, following the death of her boyfriend and actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in Mumbai, India, September 6, 2020. Picture taken September 6, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
On Tuesday, Chakraborty was arrested by India’s narcotics department, which is investigating a drugs case linked to the probe of Rajput’s death. She denies any wrongdoing and her lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, called the arrest “a travesty of justice”. India’s boisterous TV networks, which include more than 350 news channels in English and several local languages, have flashed photos of Rajput’s body, analysed his medical prescriptions, even used voodoo dolls and graphics of a skull to hype allegations that “black magic” was performed on the actor.
“It is a media trial. What else is it?” she said. “I haven’t seen this kind of viciousness in coverage before.”Before his June 14 death, Rajput, most famous for portraying India’s cricket captain in a biopic, and his girlfriend were more likely to be depicted as a down-to-earth - if Bollywood-beautiful - couple, cuddling tousled-haired at home or sitting playfully in jeans on a rundown park bench.
“Sickening,” journalist Swati Chaturvedi wrote on Twitter. Alaka Sahani, a senior Indian Express journalist, said, “The visuals of Rhea being hounded makes my stomach churn and puke.”
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