Tandoor director Nivedita Basu, in an interview with mid-day.com, shared how it was to shoot in the new normal, her journey as a producer, and also what it was to be a mother in the pandemic struck world.
Nivedita Basu/picture courtesy: Yogen Shah
As we approach a year of the first lockdown that was imposed in India, mid-day reached out to the head honchos of the television industry to share their journey with the audience. The world came to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, still, many tried hard to not succumb under the constant pressure, and stayed positive during that phase. Many found out their own ways to keep it cool during the pandemic outbreak, a lot of them took necessary precautions before stepping out into the COVID-19 struck the world.
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The television and Bollywood industry faced the wrath of the pandemic. But, as soon as the Government of India eased down rules and regulations, a lot of production houses kickstarted their work, to cover up the losses they had to bore due to the lockdown. Popular television producer Nivedita Basu shared in an interview with mid-day.com how it was to start shooting when the lockdown was eased back in 2020.
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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