NEW DELHI: Bollywood won’t be the same when it resumes production activity after the lockdown is lifted. Producers and entertainment industry experts say helping cast and crew tide over the fear psychosis of working in large teams is their single-biggest concern, besides ensuring sanitary conditions, which could escalate costs.
The challenge is aggravated considering Mumbai, the entertainment hub and film capital of India, currently stands ravaged by covid-19, with more than 2,700 cases. “Our film sets are extremely democratic in the sense that they employ everyone from top-rung actors to daily wagers.
Our biggest concern is to convince all of them to congregate and create work," said Siddharth Anand Kumar, vice-president, films and