Sayantani Ghosh On ‘Ali Baba’ Co-Star Tunisha Sharma's Death: The Heaviness Is Just Pulling Me Down

20-year-old actress Tunisha Sharma died of suicide on the sets of her TV show ‘Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul’ on December 24. Her co-star from the show, Sayantani Ghosh, had met Tunisha just a day before her untimely death. Now in a recent interview, Ghosh claimed that she is still processing the news of Tunisha’s death. 

"It's not easy, it still hasn't sunk in. It's shaken me and it doesn't sit well. I still can't believe it. The heaviness is just pulling me down. I want to cry it out loud, but I'm unable to cry. I wish this was a bad dream and I woke up," Ghosh lamented during an interaction with Hindustan Times. 

"It raises a lot of questions within. Everything becomes meaningless. We aspire for things and have our dreams but then one moment changes everything. This is beyond acceptance," she added. 

While Sharma and Ghosh didn't have many scenes in the show, they bonded on different things like hand creams. "She was like a butterfly, always chirpy, and had a wide smile on her face. She would come and hug everyone on set. She was very dedicated to her work and that's what I remember her as. This is beyond acceptance, I see her smiling face. Just talking about her in the past tense gives me knots in my heart," she shared. 

Talking about how the young starlet’s death has once again diverted from mental health, Ghosh mentioned, “With Tunisha I felt that she was such a happy go lucky girl, why would she go ahead and do something like that, but that's the point you never understand things from the outside. I believe that we've moved away from the basics of life, the core points of life. Most of us struggle with anxiety and stress these days. A lot of people say, 'Love your own life,' 'Don't give up on your life', but we would never understand what they are going through, we are not in their shoes. Also, there's so much stigma around mental health with people saying things like Be strong. I think it takes a lot more strength to do something like that. Different people react differently," she explains. Ghosh is yet to talk to Sharma's mother, Vanita. "It was so sad to see her faint. It was heart-wrenching.”