Bollywood
has lost many of its gems like Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan,
Sushant Singh Rajput, and others this year. The industry was also saddened by the news of
Sanjay Dutt’s ill-health recently.
Talking about all this and more in an exclusive interview with ETimes,
Suniel Shetty said, “I don’t even want to talk about what has happened this year because every day when you see pictures of the people we have lost, it hurts. It hurts like crazy. People have loved them as an individual not only as actors. They have lived life and they were such wonderful people. They were knowledge banks. That is what hurts the most.”
Elaborating more, he added, “Now, you hear about Sanju (Sanjay Dutt) being unwell. Be it morning or evening, he is always consciously in my prayers. He has gone through hell. I am praying to God to help him recover faster.”
Suniel also opened up about his industry
friends
that he is quite close to even today. “I am very close to Abhishek Bachchan, Sohail Khan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, and even Ajay Devgn. I have a lot of friends in the industry. I can go on taking names. That is the beauty of this industry. We may not party together but when we shoot and otherwise, we spend a lot of time together.”
What’s Next? “I have committed to some projects but I seriously don’t know when we will start and how we will be going about it. I am waiting for the calls on shootings and studios. I guess we will understand as it happens,” Suniel concluded.
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