Completing 20 years in the Hindi film industry, making his web debut, and topping it off with good reviews for his direct to OTT film Ludo, Abhishek Bachchan was on a roll in 2020. A low point was him getting diagnosed with Covid-19 but he emerged victorious in that battle as well. We get talking to the man himself, who was also among the first crop of actors to step out and resume work amid the pandemic.

I am very grateful that I got to do some work and it released. I am grateful to the makers, the cast, and obviously above all, the audience. You feel blessed and lucky. At the end of the day, we work for the audiences’ acknowledgement and appreciation. What more can you ask for, than you being able to do your job and them liking it?

I never thought of it like that. I started working on Breathe in 2018. At that time, there wasn’t any timeline as to when we would release it. Incidentally, I also started working on Ludo that year. Once you make a film, there are so many other aspects that you’ve got before releasing it. You leave it to the producers and studio. But, is it special? I would say, it was sort of a silver lining to this year.

I was more filled with concern for my family than anything else. My father (Amitabh Bachchan), wife (Aishwarya) and daughter (Aaradhya) got it too, thankfully my mother (Jaya) did not. Obviously, you are concerned about your loved ones and want them to be alright. There is little that you can do. I have to thank all the doctors and nurses who cared and worked so hard. I never actually had the time to sit and contemplate.

There is a concern at the back of your mind. That wasn’t for me, but who I am getting back home to. I live with my entire family, my parents are of a certain age. If you are going to be all out day, and come home, you get concerned. Somewhere, I have the confidence that if I am going to take care, chances of anything untoward happening are reduced.