‘Trying to stay strong so that the lockdown fatigue doesn’t hit me’
m available to my husband and my children in a full-fledged manner. I’m spending maximum time with them. I am also taking ample rest apart from reading, cooking and exercising. These things have made my lockdown a little happier and less grim,” says Gurdip Punjj as she is homebound with the lockdown in effect.
But she is quick to point out that she is making sure to not succumb to the lockdown fatigue. She says, “I’m trying to stay strong so that the lockdown fatigue doesn’t hit me because if I fall weak, then everyone will fall weak one after the other. I’m taking every day as it comes.”
The past few years saw
Punjj striking the right balance between television and the OTT space. For the actor,
GURDIP
PUNJJ,
Actor the web has proved to be a boon. She elaborates,
“For digital shows, we get scripts beforehand and hence, we know the story start-to-finish. So, we can prepare and etch a nice graph for our characters. These things make a lot of difference to actors like me. I’m more than happy to be part of this platform.”
Commenting on the longstanding debate of films and television versus web, the Sanjivani
actor emphasises that the lockdown last year has proved that OTT platforms have come to assume an upper hand: “With the lockdown, more and more people have taken to OTT platforms and this will continue in the future as well. Most of the urban families had given up on television long back.”
She further adds, “I know a lot of my friends did not want to have a television at their homes because of the payment systems where they had to pay to avail certain channels. They thought that they would rather get a fire stick and a powerful internet connection to watch things according to their choices and preferences.”
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