For actor Chandan Roy Sanyal, best known for the role of Mikhail in Kaminey, the lockdown brought his production company, Proscenium Film Company, to a halt. But after a few months of being out of action, Sanyal and his colleagues realised they couldn't idle away their time. They decided to get into the groove of things by starting small, with a rehearsal reading on Zoom. "We began with reading Dumbwaiter, a one-act play by Harold Pinter.

We started rehearsing four versions of it. We were hoping to perform it, but then we were told nothing was possible until the theatres opened. So, we had to figure how to put together a play that could be taken to the audiences, online, in a digital format," says Sanyal, last seen in Prakash Jha's web series, Aashram.