India Lockdown movie review: Banal storytelling, with little new to say

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But it’s still too early to have forgotten the horrors of the pandemic at a time when no one had any idea of how to combat the deadly virus sweeping through the world, leaving thousands dead. Four sets of people, belonging to different strata of Mumbai society, are under the lens in ‘India Lockdown’: a debt-ridden food-cart operator (Prateik Babbar) his wife (Sai Tamhankar) who works as a cook, and two children set out for their village on foot, hoping to find refuge in a place they had left behind; an elderly gent (Prakash Belawadi) prepares to solo drive the miles required to reach his pregnant daughter in the South; a female pilot (Aahana Kumra) features big in the lives of a young couple who can’t wait to get their hands on each other; a sex-worker (Shweta Basu Prasad) joins her sisters-in-arms in trying to keep her income going via the cell-phone assignations.

Among the felt moments is one in which the tired, exhausted family of four scavenge on rotten bananas to keep starvation at bay. In another, an older woman rescues a younger one from the flesh trade. The rest is just banal story-telling, with little new to say.

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India Lockdown cast: Prakash Belawadi, Prateik Babbar, Shweta Basu Prasad, Sai Tamhankar, Aahana Kumra, Zarin Shihab
India Lockdown director: Madhur Bhandarkar
India Lockdown rating: 1.5 stars