In an interview with ETimes, filmmaker Sanjay Gupta called the insider and outsider debate "complete nonsense" and said there have "hardly been any instances" where everyone in Bollywood "ganged up" on someone. Furthermore, he claimed Sushant Singh Rajput was not "shunned". "Right up to his death...he [got]...film offers but he...[did] not [accept them]...that was his choice," Gupta added.