Pratyusha Banerjee's friends miss prayer meet

Considering how close friends of the late Pratyusha Banerjee had conducted a press conference, pledging their support to her, promising to carry on a fight for justice during the time of her death last year, their absence from a prayer meet held on her first death anniversary set tongues wagging.

Her co-star Shashank Vyas from Balika Vadhu, and close buddies like Vikas Gupta, Sara Khan, and others were panned for giving the meet a miss. Clearing the air on the same, Shashank said, “I don’t have to tell the world what connection I had with Pratyusha, nor do I go about telling the press how much I miss her, and what charities I take part in as a mark of respect for her. I was at Kokilaben Hospital when her body was brought in. I was even present at Siddarth Hospital, where her post mortem was done. I was there at her funeral. Attending the meet will in no way prove how much she meant to me. People have no right to question why I wasn’t there.”

Vikas pretty much said the same. “I am wary of making my emotions public. While I applaud Kamya Punjabi’s initiative, I deliberately kept away from the meet, because I knew there would be media personnel. Otherwise, I would have gone,” he shares.

Kamya on her part says, “Who am I to say anything on this? I don’t see who is with me. I have courage to fight for her justice on my own, and I will do it. I went to the meet and I am going to be there for Pratyusha always. I haven’t told anyone how many times I met her parents. When I call someone my friend I mean it.”