1. The Drug Scandal: As a parade of actors, well, mostly actresses, were called in for interrogation by the Narcotics Control Bureau it became perceptibly patent that a pandora’s pitara had been pryed open. At the end of the year it was clear that Bollywood may not be a den of debauchery. But it was not above a bit of snorting sniffing and smoking. Dum maro dum, indeed.

2. The Suicide Scandal: Life in Bollywood would now be looked at before and after 14 June. Did Sushant Singh Rajput kill himself on that date? Or was he, gulp choke, murdered? Though every government agency clearly indicated that Sushant indeed took his own life, his fans in the throes of extreme hysteria insisted that their beloved star was killed. This conflict did-he-did-he-not will never die down. In his mysterious death Sushant lives forever.

3. Anurag Kashyap Scandal: A starlet stunned the nation with her luridly phrased video confession of what Kashyap had done to her when she approached him for a role. Sexual harassment allegations, some serious some not, are rampant in showbiz. But this one , with its descriptive persuasion , topped the charts. Wisely Kashyap lay low during the year. He is all set hit back at the allegations through the legal channel in a big way in 2021.

4. Ellen DeGeneres Scandal: The world’s top chat-show hostess suddenly lost all her allure when staff members, one after another, came forward to accuse her of acute cruelty. So did some star guests.As the nice-person philanthropist and Ms Congeniality persona crumbled to dust and the ratings of her longest-lasting talkshow plummeted, the question at the end of the year was not, ‘Is she being victimized?’ It was,‘How awful is she really?’ Throughout the year there was also talk of trouble in her same-sex marriage. Trouble, as they say ,comes in threes. One more to go,Ellen.

5. Johnny Depp Scandal: Looks like the Pirates of the Caribbean has hit some seriously inclement weather.With his wife Amber Heard rocked the boat, accusing him of domestic violence all the way her to multi-billion lawsuit Depp’s career dipped to an all-time low. At year-end came the news that Johnny had lost his role as the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the latest Fantastic Beasts film in the Harry Potter series, after a U.K. judge ruled he had been abusive to ex-wife. Never heard such a thing!