Nivedita Basu on shooting during lockdown: We had to be a little stricter, we started imposing fine

The new normal was not easy to accept. The cost incurred to look after the entire crew to keep the disease at the bay was not a cakewalk for the producers. When quizzed about how the wave impacted the working style on the sets, Nivedita Basu was quick to reply, "As a producer, we had to make sure that there was not a single case of Covid because we were actually shooting when the pandemic was still on. We had to be a little stricter, we started imposing fine. Chitra was very strict about wearing a mask, and sanitization happening on the set twice or thrice a day. So, we managed to shoot for 15 days without a single case of covid, and I think that is commendable."

Nivedita Basu also shared what did she witness being a producer, as soon as the lockdown was lifted; she quipped, "I am not sure whether Maharashtra really lifted the lockdown back in the shoot-start-phase. I can sense that there is a lockdown again which is lingering. So we'll have to go back to be strict. The vaccine is also not 100% efficacy that people are just going to roam around with the mask. I think we have to be as strict and behave as much the pandemic or lockdown as it was the last year, or else it's going to spiral out of control."

"I just hope to come out of this soon because living like this is scary. I have a child whom I have to send to school, and I can still sense that for the next one year there's going to be no school, physical school, rather it's just going to be restricted to the computer," concluded Nivedita Basu.

Being a mother, a producer, a creative director, who is also in direction, here's what went after Nivedita Basu's lockdown journey. Now, on the work front, Nivedita Basu will be seen wearing a director's hat for Ullu App's web series Tandoor.

 

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