Story of India's Lockdown, Told Through Bollywood Posters

This bollywood posters mashup tells the story of one month of lockdown in India.

Bollywood posters tell the story of lockdown.

(Photo: Erum Gaur / The Quint)

Creative producer / Video Editor: Kunal Mehra

It’s been more than a month since a nationwide lockdown began across India, to check the spread of the novel coronavirus. Lockdown 1.0 was from 25 March to 15 April and subsequently, lockdown 2.0 was extended till 3 May.

At the time of publishing this copy, India had 24,506 COVID-19 cases, 5,063 recoveries and 775 deaths. From the data that is being presented by the government, it seems that the lockdown has been effective to some extent.

The average daily growth in cases was 21.6 percent on 24 March, which has now dropped to 8.1 percent in the fifth week. So, there are definitely some encouraging signs.

Clearly, it’s not all doom and gloom, so why not celebrate what we have achieved? And, there’s no better way to do so than Bollywood films. Since you can’t go out to watch a movie, here’s the story of the lockdown, told through a mashup of Bollywood posters.