India Lockdown

<p>The film showcases four parallel stories – a father-daughter duo stuck in different cities, a sex worker and her troubles, a migrant worker with bare resources, and a pilot. The shoot of the film started after the 2020 lockdown. The shoots were wrapped by March 2021. The film secured a certification from the in October 2021. The teaser trailer of the movie was released on November 8. when it was trending on X, Formerly known as leading to panic among the netizens in India of another lockdown being imposed by the Indian government. It was announced in November 2022 that film would have a direct-to-digital release via . Anuj Kumar for wrote, “Madhur’s treatment of subjects is usually high-pitched and he paints his scenarios with broad strokes, but here, he has roped in a cast of competent actors to convey what is not there on the page.” Shubhra Gupta of rated the movie 1.5/5 and wrote “…an older woman rescues a younger one from the flesh trade. The rest is just banal story-telling, with little new to say.” Zinia Bandyopadhyay of gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote “Bhandarkar is an excellent director, and there is no doubt about that. But probably in his attempt to weave the story together, he missed other aspects like a compelling background score, or even performances, for that matter!” Ronak Kotecha of rated the film 3/5 and wrote “More than 2 years after the first countrywide lockdown in India, director Madhur Bhandarkar and his writers (Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah) have come up with a compilation of stories that are real and relatable.”</p>