Etti Bali (HINDUSTAN TIMES; June 2, 2020)

Serendipity is a baffling phenomenon. Things executed with a certain intent end up becoming totally different entities with a newfound purpose. This is what happened with actor Ronit Roy’s do-it-yourself (DIY) mask video, which had gone viral in April. And this time, it has caught attention of the people protesting George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, USA. They are encouraging its use to hide their identities!

Talking about the video that has garnered around 124.4k likes and 27k retweets on Twitter, and has been viewed over 77k times on Instagram, he says, “I really don’t know how to react. It was something to keep yourself safe with. It’s not an achievement; it’s just something that somebody picked up.”

Roy, 54, points that he just wanted to make a mask with the most easily available items. “I was not thinking internationally; I was thinking about my country. The weave of the T-shirt is such that once doubled or tripled, it’s effective. The point is everybody has a T-shirt,” he explains.