{"id":23697,"date":"2020-10-11T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/11\/the-bollywood-star-suicide-feverish-online-witch-hunt-rhea-chakraborty"},"modified":"2020-10-11T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T09:45:02","slug":"the-bollywood-star-a-suicide-and-an-online-witch-hunt-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23697","title":{"rendered":"The Bollywood star, a suicide \u2026 and an online witch-hunt across India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lurid speculation about the death of Rhea Chakraborty\u2019s actor boyfriend has become a media obsession <\/p>\n<p>It was a muted finale to a saga that has rivalled the wildest movie storylines. On Wednesday, the Bollywood star Rhea Chakraborty stepped out of the Byculla women\u2019s prison in Mumbai, released on bail after 28 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Over the previous four months, she had been vilified in a media spectacle that became a national obsession in India. She was accused of playing a role in the death of her boyfriend, fellow Bollywood star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/12\/sushant-singh-rajput-actors-death-fuels-media-frenzy-in-india\" title=\"\">Sushant Singh Rajput<\/a>, 34, who killed himself in his apartment in Mumbai on 14 June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/11\/the-bollywood-star-suicide-feverish-online-witch-hunt-rhea-chakraborty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lurid speculation about the death of Rhea Chakraborty\u2019s actor boyfriend has become a media obsession It was a muted finale to a saga that has rivalled the wildest movie storylines. On Wednesday, the Bollywood star Rhea Chakraborty stepped out of the By&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,71,236,69,62,238,235,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-digital-media","category-film","category-india","category-media","category-social-media","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23698,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions\/23698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}