![]() ![]() ZEE5 stems from the stable of ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), a global content powerhouse. ‘India Lockdown’ is all set to premiere exclusively on ZEE5 from 2nd December 2022Ībout ZEE5: ZEE5 is India’s youngest OTT platform and a multilingual storyteller for millions of entertainment seekers. Dhoni – The Untold Story and has produced films like Simran starring Kangana Ranaut and Astra (Bengali). Amit in the past has backed films like M.S. Scared and helpless, will all of them survive the uncertainty of India Lockdown?Īmit Agarwal, the founder of Adarsh Telemedia, hosted the Kolkata Premiere of India Lockdown for his friend and director Madhur Bhandarkar. And lastly, Prakash Belawadi as Nageshwar, an aged man who is stuck in a different city than his daughter at a critical time of her life. Prateik Babbar as Madhav and Sai Tamhankar as Phoolmati are migrant workers who lose their bread and butter in the pandemic and are left to starve or to walk back home as trains and local transports are shut. Aahana Kumra plays Moon Alves, a pilot who is used to soaring high in the sky but is suddenly grounded for months together and who for the first time realizes what it is like to have her wings cut. Shot in 2021, the film narrates four parallel stories of disparate characters who are catapulted into an unforeseen dramatic situation instigated by the lockdown due to the corona pandemic.Īs seen in the trailer, Shweta Basu Prasad plays the role of Mehrunissa, a sex worker in Kamathipura in Mumbai who is forced to adapt to the changes brought about by the lockdown and experiment with new ways of doing her business online. Jayantilal Gada of PEN Studios, Madhur Bhandarkar’s Bhandarkar Entertainment and Pranav Jain’s P J Motions Pictures, India Lockdown had its global premiere at IFFI Goa on 21st November and received an overwhelming response. That’s how, I put my best possible effort into getting into the skin of my screen-character Madhav in ‘India Lockdown’ and making it look so authentic,” enthuses Prateik.Produced by Dr. When he mentored and explained to me and said that my performance would be a homage-tribute to my mother, that was my biggest motivating factor. So he insisted that I should watch my Mother’s movies like ‘Aakrosh’, ‘Chakra’ and even ‘Pet Pyaar aur Paap’ as a reference point. ![]() Madhur-Sir told me that he had seen my legendary actress-mother ( ‘late’ Smita Patil) in such de-glam realistic roles in various movies. Recalling how he was signed for this dehati character, Prateik recalled shared how when he visited director Madhur’s office everyone was bewuildered, “That’s because my hair was coloured with a blue-dye shade and I had worn fancy sun-glasses and I had several body-skin-tattoos. In fact, Sai who plays a total de-glam character in ‘India Lockdown’ impressed the invited media fraternity with her off-screen smart trendy dress-sense. Īt the movie trailer launch, both slim-and-trim style-icons Aahana Kumra and Sai Tamhankar were clad in dare-bare yet dignified outfits and stole the show. ![]() This movie which amalgamates four contrasting bitter-tragic-truth, yet overwhelming real-life woman-centric stories has an ensemble star cast of Prateik Babbar opposite Sai Tamhankar as ‘Phoolmati’ ( both migrant-workers married couple, Shweta Basu Prasad (as sultry sex-worker Mehrunissa ), Aahana Kumra ( as an upmarket girl commercial pilot Moon) and Prakash Belawadi ( South Indian character Nageshwara Rao). The recent ‘Babli Bouncer’ movie director ( Madhur) was speaking at the trailer launch of his much-awaited maverick movie ‘India Lockdown’ which starts streaming on ZEE 5 from Dec 2. Multiple National Awards winner Bhandarkar, who is known mostly for his hard-hitting realistic landmark movies like ‘Chandni Bar’ and ‘’ happens to be an ardent fan of late legendary versatile actress Smita Patil. ![]() “Talented actor Prateik Babbar’s de-glam intense role-performance as the poor migrant-worker Madhav in Original OTT movie India Lockdown will prove to be a tribute-homage to his legendary mother Smita Patil”, assures acclaimed director Madhur Bhandarkar. ![]()
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