Actor Radhika Apte calls the Covid-induced lockdown the “longest break” she has got in several years. She said, “Just to have a routine was a normal thing. But, in this period, I ate well, exercised, tried to write and watch, and did nothing, without any pressure of having to be at any place. All these have been really good things. But, there have been too many bad things, too.”
Apte added, “That was just a small fraction of it. The consequences it has had on the economy is one thing, but just people and their livelihood – the situation of migrant workers is horrible in India.” The actor has been spending her lockdown in London for the past couple months, and said the situation their is much better to what it was two months ago.
She said, “It is way better than in India. They let us go out for a while, we can meet friends in an open space. The weather is great too, and the markets are going to open now.” Apte said she does not like the term “new normal”. Adding, “It's there until the time we find a vaccine to tackle the issue. We'll go back to normal, I believe. Once we go back there, we'll forget about this.”
