The irony of culminating a gritty drama on a cliffhanger, only to then have its forthcoming season interrupted by a long-drawn pandemic, isn-t lost on The Family Man co-director Raj Nidimoru. "We had a release-strategy planned for this year," he says of what could have been of the Manoj Bajpayee-fronted web series- second season. Though shooting has been completed, an elaborate post-production leg is in the pipeline. "It takes four months to complete processes like sound [mixing], music creation, and VFX work. Also, the show must be readied for airing in various countries, as will be the case with a web series. This involves processes like addition of subtitles. We need to see how many studios will function, and if there will be some relaxations [in lockdown measures] so that we can use them."

In the interim, he is pulling out all stops to wrap up processes that can be completed from home, to meet a year-end release. "It took us a few days to edit it, but, we established a working-process between DK [Krishna DK, co-director], the editor, and myself, and kept exchanging files," he says, lamenting the unproductive hours spent in comprehending how to use technology to exchange files and communicate.