Rhea Chakraborty has opened up about her expertise of spending time in jail and shared some candid and sudden particulars about her days behind bars. The actress was arrested by the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) in September 2020, just a few months after the demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and spent round 27 days in jail earlier than being granted bail.Rhea not too long ago spoke concerning the expertise throughout an interplay with comic Tanmay Bhat, the place she mirrored on life inside a ladies’s undertrial jail and likewise used humour whereas revisiting one of the crucial tough intervals of her life.
Rhea reveals what inmates did for timepass
Throughout the dialog, Tanmay requested Rhea what individuals typically do for timepass in jail. The actress replied, “They sing, they dance, they make thecha.”She additionally spoke concerning the individuals she encountered throughout her time within the ladies’s undertrial jail and made an commentary concerning the absence of social hierarchy among the many inmates.“Folks inside jail are higher than individuals exterior jail as a result of most individuals, at the very least within the undertrial jail for girls, are harmless, and there isn’t any hierarchy. Everybody’s equal, everybody’s a quantity; there isn’t any title,” Rhea stated.When Tanmay requested whether or not she remembered the quantity assigned to her in jail, Rhea initially stated, “sure”, earlier than rapidly altering her reply to “no”.
Rhea jokes about jail meals and her upcoming e-book
The dialog additionally turned to the meals served in jail. Reasonably than straight answering the query, Rhea jokingly informed Tanmay, “Guys, I’m scripting this e-book, padh lena.”When requested what the e-book could be known as, she quipped, “The e-book known as Chudail ka badla.”She continued joking concerning the meals in jail, saying, “Sushi milti hai jail mein, champagne milta hai, vada pav, chat.”The dialog was half of a bigger dialogue by which Rhea revisited the extreme media scrutiny she confronted following Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise in June 2020.
‘If I got here in, abruptly they’d change the tone’
Rhea additionally spoke about how individuals behaved round her in the course of the controversy. Recalling the awkwardness she skilled in social conditions, she stated that individuals would abruptly alter their behaviour every time she entered a room.“With me, if individuals have been like laughing and joking in a gaggle and if I got here in there, then abruptly they want change the tone, be like, ‘Ha ha ha, oh hello Rhea, how are you?’” she recalled.Tanmay in contrast the expertise to the controversy surrounding his comedy collective AIB and stated that each of them have been comfy utilizing humour to take care of their respective tough intervals, although others discovered it stunning.Rhea defined that making jokes concerning the scenario usually made individuals uncomfortable.“It is true although, like if I’d make these jokes like we’re doing at present, like 4 years in the past, the room would abruptly simply get very heavy. They did not know whether or not they need to snigger or they need to not snigger,” she stated.
Rhea recollects ‘Imma bounce’ controversy
Tanmay additionally introduced up a second in the course of the controversy when one among Rhea’s personal WhatsApp messages was reportedly misinterpreted by a information channel.Recalling her message, “Imma bounce”, Tanmay joked that it was interpreted as a reference to a cheque bouncing.“Dude, bear in mind there was that loopy shit, man. Keep in mind like Rhea saying, ‘Imma bounce,’ and everybody was like, ‘Some cheque is bouncing,’” he recalled.Rohan Joshi joined in with a joke about how absurd the interpretation was, whereas the panel continued to poke enjoyable at how simply statements and messages have been misunderstood in the course of the interval.Rhea too joined in, joking about how she now seeks clarification over even innocuous messages.“Now, if somebody even texts me, ‘I am on the pot,’ I am like, ‘Please specify,’” she stated, leaving the panel in splits.She later quipped, “Good guys, good guys. You discover my trauma very entertaining. I am glad somebody’s laughing.”
Rhea’s Chapter 2 and upcoming tasks
Rhea, who has been progressively returning to the general public highlight, has described this part of her life as her Chapter 2. Her look on Tanmay Bhat’s YouTube video noticed her revisit the controversy via humour, alongside comedians Rohan Joshi, Kushagra Srivastava, Aaditya Kulshreshth and Piyush Sharma.On the work entrance, Rhea is about to look within the second season of the truth sequence The Traitors, which is hosted by Karan Johar and is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on August 13, 2026. The season options a big ensemble of celebrities, together with Mallika Sherawat, Shweta Tiwari, Munawar Faruqui, Shalini Passi, Abhishek Malhan, Krystle D’Souza, Ranveer Brar, Dalip Tahil, Parul Gulati, Aaditya Kulshreshth (Kullu), Soundous Moufakir, Shahneel Gill and Sahil Salathia, amongst others.Rhea will even be seen in Netflix’s upcoming sequence Household Enterprise, directed by Hansal Mehta and that includes Anil Kapoor and Vijay Varma.
