• Source:JND

Honey Singh’s documentary Yo Yo Honey Singh: Famous was recently released on Netflix. Since then the popular Bollywood rapper has been making headlines for several reasons including both personal and professional life. Recently the director of the film Mozez Singh in an interview shared that Singh’s ex-wife Shalini Talwar wasn’t ready to come in front of the camera and give her point of view. Due to this, Honey Singh also didn’t share his side of point of view. 

In an interview with SCREEN, Mozez said “This is a very sensitive topic once again. There were two reasons for this. One, he can’t talk about it, which is there in the film. Secondly, if I was not able to get the wife’s point of view, then I didn’t want to show his point of view because I am not going to do that to a woman. Like not giving her point of view is not fair. She was never going to come on camera because she can also not talk. So the only way to address it was by showing exactly how it is.” 

He also cleared the air that Honey Singh wasn’t a drug addict. Mozez added, “The whole drug addiction thing is a misconception. He was never a drug addict. He suffered from very bad mental health and that was the problem. He was not a drug addict. Everybody thinks he was on drugs, but no, the problem was mental health. The problem was that he was bipolar. Yes, he was smoking up and smoking weed and all that stuff, but he was not an addict. Everyone is confusing the thing, but it was never about the drugs. It was always about mental health. His mental health spiralled out of control. and that triggered everything else. It was not like he was doing drugs and he was drugged out. They are two very separate things in his case.” 

“For him to talk about something so personal and intense, you have to build trust with a person. I think he understood, quite early on the journey of this film, that I am not someone who was going to do a puff piece on him. Neither was I someone who wanted to destroy and throw him under the bus. I just wanted to tell his truth. He knew I was out there to make an honest film, and he understood that it was a process,” the filmmaker concluded.