Actors Debina: My doctor said urgently need to take the vaccine

The worsening Covid-19 situation has certainly led to everything going for a toss, and showbiz is facing the brunt with all shoots stalled till April 30. Actor Debina Bonnerjee is among the many affected.

“It impacted a photoshoot I’d been planning. Our residential building has stopped allowing people inside. Nothing could happen for the last four to five weeks,” she laments.

But Bonnerjee feels it’s time to find a way out. “It (vaccination) could have started right in the beginning. If you want people to stay at home, they should be given enough entertainment. Our source is what we see on our phones and daily soaps. For a child also, if you want them to sit at one place, you give them enough things to keep their attention going. Similarly, the show must go on at least for actors,” argues the 37-year-old.

The actor, therefore, wants everyone in showbiz to get vaccinated. In fact, she tells us that even her doctor agreed that actors are at high risk, and advised they should get the vaccine at the earliest. “He said in every other profession, including his own, everyone is all masked up, wearing PPE suits and face shields. But for us, actors, it’s extremely urgent to take the vaccination as ours is the only profession (where people are) thoroughly exposed,” she says.

The actor recalls the time she had just resumed shooting for her show, Aladdin, last year in July-end. “I was among the first to start shooting. I was petrified. That was the time when it had just begun, right now people are used to moving out everywhere, with a bottle of sanitiser,” she says.