After months of inactivity, shoots have finally resumed as a semblance of normalcy has been restored in the unlock mode. However, actor Amit Sial is still on the fence about getting back to work just yet.

“My heart goes out to people who have suffered because of the second wave. We need to be really careful as there are talks about a third wave coming in,” the Maharani actor says, and adds, “It is a very difficult situation. We need to work. A lot of people have gone without work for months and I really don’t know how they have been surviving like this. It is a catch-22 situation.”

Sial admits that there is a lot of backlog of work that has piled up because of the sporadic shoots in the past 15 months. “My shoot schedule has got disrupted as well. I was in the middle of a couple of things and they got stalled and couple of other things, that should have started by now or probably would have reached completion, have been pushed back. It is quite sad, but at the same time, people come first,” he says.

The actor feels that there are still a lot of people, who are being casual about the situation, and that it can be catastrophic if the third wave hits. “People have to be more responsible. I feel that all of us were really responsible when first wave happened and then post the lockdown, we became very casual and we paid the price for it. Again, I see people being casual and stepping out without masks and not worrying about hygiene. We need to wake up and only then we can save ourselves,” he shares.

Coming down strongly on people who are still averse to getting the jab, the 45-year-old asserts, “Vaccination is the only way we can contain the third wave.”