Exposed: No Health Issues For Mithun Chakraborty, Only Political Issues

The mysterious disappearance of Mithun Chakbraborty from the celebrity-map is one of the biggest puzzlement of my journalistic career. Warm friendly affable and accessible, Mithunda suddenly dropped out of the radar in 2015, thereby instantly elevating himself to the position of producer-director K C Bokadia (coincidentally one of Mithunda’s favourite filmmakers) who in 2015 disconnected his phones and  disappeared from Bollywood with no forwarding address.

Bokadia had reason. After the massive failure of his Mallika Sherawat starrer Dirty Politics he owed the entertainment market huge amounts of money.

But Mithunda??? Even his son Mimoh(a failed star-kid) stopped taking anxious calls from his father’s friends.

Hard to believe.

Now that he has resurfaced he says he hadn’t gone anywhere. “No no I was right here. There were some issues,” he trails off vaguely.

Until 2015 the adorable Mithunda was seen on every other reality show and in the random film that was offered to him. In fact between 2102 and 2015 Mithuda was seen in as many as 21 Hindi and Bengali films and as a judge on numerous dancing and singing reality shows.

Then  it all ended and Mithunda just vanished.

Anxious inquiries revealed some vague reasons for his disappearance. A “helicopter accident” and a “severe injury” were fearfully brought up, though there was neither any helicopter nor an accident where near Mithundacirca his disappearance.

After a vain search to locate him through every source possible(including his suddenly-sullen son) Mithunda is back.

And a close filmmaker-friend reveals the reason for his abrupt drop-out of sight.

“It had nothing to do with his health and everything to do with his wealth…Or rather questions raised about his assets after he was named in West Bengal’s Saradha Chit-Fund Scandal in 2014.When Mithun was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate he was shocked and humiliated. He had not joined politics to get his name tainted,” says the source.

In January 2014 Mithunda was elected into the Rajya Sabha through West Bengal’s Chief Minister MamtaBannerjee’s Trinamul’s support. After the Saradha scandal Mithunda not only cut himself away  from public glare he also distanced himself from his Mamta Didi.

And now with the political scandal  having waned  the Disco Dancer is back in Ram Gopal Varma thriller Geherand Anil Sharma’s Genius where the director’s son, and not Mithunda, plays the title role.

As for politics, none of that for Mithunda.

Says a friend, “You will not hear Mithunda going anywhere near any politics in the near or distant future.”

That’s one entertainer after Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda to have sworn off politics.

Is Rajinikanth listening?