The police on Monday recorded the statement of leading Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, for close to four hours in connection with the alleged suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. According to sources, the filmmaker told the police that he hadn't dropped Rajput from any of his films, but the actor had refused to be in them as he was shooting for some other movies under Yash Raj Films.

Quizzed for four hours
The investigation team at Bandra police station had prepared around 20 questions for the filmmaker when he arrived at the police station at 12:30pm. Bhansali was quizzed about his association with the actor and which were the films he wanted to work with Rajput. As it has been alleged that the actor was in depression after being dropped out of two big films, Ramleela and Bajirao Mastani, directed by Bhansali, he was questioned about the same. But Bhansali denied dropping the actor from any of his films," a police officer said.