Actor Adil Hussain came back to Delhi recently from Hampi, only to be greeted by the weekend curfews, and soon restrictions were imposed.

“An entire lockdown is not going to work economically for anybody. There’s a huge section of middle-class families who’ve been sort of devastated. Today, people know how to look after themselves so as to not contract the virus. They can also look at themselves as what went wrong in terms of our healthy lives. All these questions have to come into the mainstream conversation,” he says.

The 57-year-old reveals that he had no professional commitments, so nothing got hampered in the pandemic. In fact, Hussain had shot for multiple projects in 2020 ever since restrictions were eased and shoots were allowed. “I had shot for three films back-to-back. First it was Bellbottom in United Kingdom, then I came back for an Assamese film, and then again went back to the UK for a film called Footprints On Water,” says the actor, who then came to Delhi in September last year, to meet his 90-year-old mother.

“Then me and my family went to Hampi to meet my friend. I’ll begin my next film in June in UK. I have nothing that got postponed. I wanted a break,” he adds.

As the number of Coronavirus cases continue to rise, it warrants the question what led to this. Hussain feels it’s little tricky to say where things went so wrong. “After a year of lockdown, things started opening up, and we forgot about it. We didn’t learn our lesson properly. At this time, you don’t know... even scientists don’t. They’re saying now the virus has mutated, it’s in the air. We need to find a solution instead of pointing fingers.”