While a number of actors have gone back to work, everyone has had a challenging time handling Coronavirus guidelines while on set, and understandably so. With standard operating procedures involving constant sanitisation, PPE kits, masks on most of the time and more, Kirti Kulhari, too, has been doing her best to adhere to all safety protocols.

“Getting back to normal life, with the precautions in place, is the way forward. We can’t be sitting at home and doing nothing... It happened for a long time during the lockdown... I am all for looking ahead and moving forward,” says the Mission Mangal (2019) actor.

Kulhari is starting a few projects this month and has releases lined up in the coming months as well. She reveals that some projects got pushed because of the pandemic, including her web show Four More Shots Please! season 3.

Talking about her experience of resuming shoots, Kulhari, 35, shares, “Usually a 12-hour shift doesn’t mean much as it is a regular thing. But, what happened on the first day of shoot was that after five-six hours of shooting, I felt so tired as if I had shot for 24 hours. Everyone had gotten used to not working for months. So being back on set, it felt longer and tiring. It took me two days to remember that I used to do this on a daily basis. I asked other co-actors who had shot more than me about feeling tired, and they said that they too went through this in the first few days. I was glad to know that I was not the only one. There will be back-to-back shoots now, which I am looking forward to.”