There was a day in the life of Aditya Shroff when he didn't think he'd live to see another day. "I remember being depressed from the time I was 25 to 35," he says. The former director of Shringar Film, a film distribution company launched by his father Balkrishna Shroff in 1975, Shroff joined the family business soon after finishing his MBA from the University of Leeds in the UK. But, that world didn't agree with him.

"I had everything going for me in my life. Everything was [given to me] on a platter: the business was handed over to me, money was never an issue, but I was just hollow." Several things happened in those 10 years. "I was battling severe drug addiction. I had a broken marriage. I even started getting suicidal thoughts. No one knew of it. Then, in April 2014, I woke up one day, and I came out on this same table [where we are sitting] to my parents, and I said, 'It's a matter of life and death. I've only been getting thoughts about killing myself over the last few months, and I want to stop. I want to change everything about my life. I want to create a life in which I am happy; I want to sleep when I'm happy; I want to wake up with a smile, excited to live my day.'"