In January this year, filmmaker Dhananjay Kapoor set out to make a play on the life of Lord Jagannath. His team started rehearsals at the auditorium of ISKCON temple in Juhu, but the Covid-19 lockdown in April brought their practice to a halt.

“We needed at least three more months of rehearsals to be prepared to perform the play. The lockdown was demotivating for the artistes. It seemed that all the hard work was in vain. But, then I decided to use technology to our advantage, and connected through Zoom video calls to resume our rehearsals,” said Kapoor, who heads the Bhandira Tree Theatre Group.