NEW DELHI: Late Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput was the most searched personality of 2020 while his girlfriend, actress Rhea Chakraborty, was the most searched female celebrity, according to a yearend list released on Tuesday by the search engine Yahoo for India. Yahoo’s 2020 Year in Review (YIR) for India gives an idea of the year’s top newsmakers and events, based on anonymised daily search habits of users.
While Sushant, who was found dead at his residence in June this year, emerged as India’s ‘Most Searched Personality’, there is a large presence of political personalities in the top 10 this year.
This is the first year since 2017 when PM Narendra Modi has not taken the number one spot in the list. This year, PM Modi is at the second spot. Rhea is at number three, followed by Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah, Uddhav Thackeray, Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee, Amitabh Bachchan and Kangana Ranaut. Actor Sonu Sood was picked as ‘Hero of the Year’. He was lauded his efforts to help migrant labourers reach home during lockdown amid Covid-19.