Pratyusha Banerjee shared a close bond with everyone on the sets of Balika Vadhu be it actor or script writers. A few members of Team Balika Vadhu shared their loving memories of the late actress with Indian Express.com I knew her because of Balika Vadhu. We really cherished her. She was an extremely bright and talented girl who was also a very quick learner. Initially, it’s her cuteness factor that impressed but later on one started seeing the spark in her. Her role was a tough one to do and picked up the thread well. I lost touch with her after Balika Vadhu but during the time she was there, I interacted with her at whatever functions we met. I have some enduring memories of Pratyusha. I remember, I was at this award function where she won 7 trophies. She was a petite and fraile girl and couldn’t hold all trophies. I and other held two trophies each and took it to her car. The other memory that I have of her was when we met for a BBC documentary that was being made on child marriage. They wanted one writer and lead actress for their documentary and since our show was on child marriages they had landed on sets to. I remember on a Sunday morning I went to Vasai and she was there in her costume. That day I got ample time to know her more on a one-on-one basis. that was the time I spent one and one. I remember thinking then that she was old enough to be my daughter. She was nervous before the BBC shoot and had very enthusiastically asked me how she should express and what she should say. She also asked me the secret behind my skin and complexion and said, ‘I want to have your complexion when I reach your age.’ Those words haunted me when I learnt about her death. It pains me that she will never reach that age. She was like a child to us. I remember on her 21sy birthday, she excitedly told me that she could do things that she couldn’t earlier. For her age, she was very strong. It’s so daunting and frightening for a girl from a small town to live alone and manage her life. She managed that and that was a big thing but somewhere things went terribly wrong.