It has been a jarring time for everyone in the television circle, from fans to those who have worked with her. The shock has only set in more after her father put it out there: he says she was made to suffer on the set of Saajan Ghar. The 22-year-old took her own life at her home in Nalasopara on June 14, 2026.
According to her father, the trouble started not long after she came on board. She had put pen to paper on a 100-day deal and had put in over 30 days of work, but in as little as a couple of weeks, she was being made an example of. He says some on set would put her down, make an issue of her abilities and just not let up when she was clearly having a hard time.
Family alleges pressure on Saajan Ghar
He makes the case that in those first few days you could see a change in her, even in how she was thinking. Instead of giving her room, the people around her put their foot down. They told her she wouldn’t be able to get by without this job and made sure she kept at it, which he says made things worse for her.
Some of what he has to say:
– Put her name to a 100-day contract for Saajan Ghar.
– Put in 30 or 35 days of work before it all came to a head.
– Felt like a target in the first 10 to 15 days.
– A decline in her memory was noted.
– Was being put on the spot on set.
Why the schedule worried her family
Then there is the matter of the hours. Her father describes a day in the life of Sanchita as anything but easy. He puts it at 12 to 14 hours of work, plus another 2-3 hours to and from the set – 6 hours on the road if you add it up. In his book, she was working and in transit for 17 or 18 hours a day.
That meant 2 to 4 hours at most with him. He thinks the lack of sleep made her short-tempered and that the ones running the show were hoping she would fold. It is a heavy accusation from a parent in mourning, and it shows what you can be up against with a production that doesn’t stop.
Colleagues express disbelief
“We were talking just a few days back and she was in good spirits,” says actor Sarwam Kulkarni, who thought of her as his Rakhi sister. He knew she had been down in the dumps at one point, but she was over it. This has been a total surprise for him.
Manish Raisinghan, a producer-actor who was with her on a vertical drama a year or so ago, has a different image of her. “She was warm, you’d be in her presence and she was all smiles,” he says. He had word she was in a bit of a hole, but you wouldn’t have known it to look at her.
Police note ongoing investigation
Sujith Kumar Madhukar Pawar, a senior PI with the Achole station, says her psychiatrist has come forward to say that in the past Sanchita had voiced some worries about where her career and life were heading. He also notes she had some new projects in the offing. For now, they are looking into it.
All the grief we are seeing is mixed with some hard truths. If you take the father at his word, he is pointing to a combination of 17-hour days and on-set friction that can break a young person, especially one just starting out and trying to make a name for herself.
There is a divide for the audience. You have friends who will tell you she was a go-getter and a joy to be around, and then you have her family telling you of a talent who was simply worn down. Both can be the case, and it leaves us wanting to know why.
Only the probe will tell. In the meantime, these claims have the industry’s work habits in the crosshairs. We’ll have to wait and see how they explain the way a promising career came to such an end.
