Zindagi Live: Just another show? You decide

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I am writing after a long long time. Last one month was very hectic for Zindagi Live team. It wasn't just work but also the emotional problems that we all went through.

Those of you who have watched the show on families of missing people would know why. Another episode that was very difficult to shoot was on families where a child had committed suicide. This episode will be aired soon.

I wanted to share my experience when we were working on the episode. We had to face a lot of criticism when we tried contacting parents. We were told that we shouldn't try making fun of their grief. We weren't doing that at all!

We just wanted to give a message to our viewers, especially the younger ones that life is meant to be lived, not to be given up like this.

I was listening to an audio tape of Atul who recorded his voice before committing suicide. Believe me, all of us in the team were crying bitterly.

But just the very next moment, I got up, got hold of my emotions and decided to use the audio for the show. It's not that we are not disturbed, it's not that the emotions don't move us, it's not that these tears don't haunt us. We still have to do it, not for anything else but just to send the message across to everyone who is watching.

In the process, we have to bear all the scoldings, the criticisms, the banging of the phones, the blame that it's merely a show for us and nothing else, the continuous reminder that we don't understand anything.

We do, we also get upset, we also cry when we see our guest in pain, we keep in touch with them even after the show is done.

My team members are almost like family to all the guests who come have come to the show. Would it have been possible if Zindagi Live was just another show for us? You decide.