Yesterday as soon as the release of the song Jeena Zaroori Hai was announced, netizens have been slamming the team for cashing in on Sidharth Shukla’s name. The two hashtags trending on Twitter are ‘Stop Using Sidharth Shukla’ and ‘Shame on Vishal Kotian’.
Apparently, Sidharth had opted out of this project three years ago, but now that the makers are aware that Siddharth had a humongous fan following, they are using his name to cash in their project. The news is that the makers have still gone ahead even after he refused to do the project and used his portions in the video. Actor Vishal Kotian, too, is getting bashed for what he has been saying in the media because Sidharth’s fans believe most of his claims are untrue. Vishal, in a press conference today, said that Sidharth and he shot for the music video in 2019. However, the two apparently never shot for the video together.
According to a source of BT who was associated with Sidharth Shukla for many years, it has been reported, “Sidharth shot a few scenes for this music video in 2018 in Odisha. He wasn’t happy with the project and conveyed it to the makers, following which they parted ways. In the video, too, you can see Sidharth looking different because it was shot in 2018. But Vishal Kotian looks like he has shot for it more recently. There is not a single scene between Vishal and Sidharth and that’s because they never shot for it together in the first place. The biggest discrepancy is that Vishal says that the video was shot in 2019, which is the year Sidharth participated in Bigg Boss (BB). However, Sidharth shot for this video a year before that and there are pictures of the launch, too, on the internet.”
Talking about 2018 when Sidharth shot a few scenes for the music video, the source says, “Vishal was not a part of the video then. It was only Sidharth and the actress Deepika Tripathy. The posters released at that time announcing the music video clearly did not have any mention of Vishal Kotian. Sidharth had opted out of this project and that’s known to all. Why is Vishal lying and telling everyone that Sidharth was fine with the release of the music video? Had Sidharth been fine, he would have shot for the video entirely. He has just a few scenes in it and hence the video looks very patchy. Vishal and the makers have cashed in on the tragedy.”
Another claim that has irked a lot of people who have been associated with Sidharth is that this song was his last work. “That’s not true at all,” says the source, adding, “This was not Sidharth’s last work as Vishal claims. His last work will always remain his web series, Broken But Beautiful 3 for which he continues to get a lot of appreciation from people.”
