As shoots have resumed in bio-bubbles post the second lockdown, the primary concern on a film set has been safety. Many projects—including Dhamaka and Sherni—have relied on Aditya Gupta for their health and safety management. The former assistant director started a company called Life First, which takes care of sanitisation needs on set. “We do everything, from formulating SOPs to location analysis and pointing out venue loopholes in scripts. Besides sanitisation and testing, we handle PPE management, waste management, tie-ups with hospitals and creation of bio-bubbles,” he says.

Gupta was supervising the safety norms of Akshay Kumar’s Ram Setu, whose shoot came to a halt in Mumbai after the leading man and 45 people tested positive in April. “There was such a hue and cry about Ram Setu. At the beginning of the second wave, a lot of crew members tested positive, but we had caught it ahead of time and the shoot was suspended immediately,” he defends.