Ranvir Shorey: After a couple of months, the feeling of being ‘locked in’ got to even a homebody like me

Actor Ranvir Shorey says that though he is someone who prefers to be at home anyway and is not social, the lockdown period does take a toll. There are psychological effects, apart from the grocery planning one has to do.

Actor Ranvir Shorey has had quite a lot which kept him busy throughout the three months of lockdown. Apart from doing the household chores, looking after his father who is 90 and a cancer patient, he also found time to be a good Samaritan and help his househelp’s wife, who was pregnant and had to be rushed to the hospital for the delivery — but his car was impounded.

Actor Ranvir Shorey shot for a series called Metro Park: Quarantine Edition, at home.

Summing up the entire lockdown experience, he confesses it got all a bit too much, “It started off being a lot easier, one was enthusiastic about it. I am generally also a homebody, not social, and don’t go out much. But after a couple of months, it become difficult even for someone who is a homebody. That feeling of being locked in starts getting to you. You think ‘how do I function for groceries?’ No matter what gets over, it has to be every 10 days, so if you forgot something, you have to live without it for so many days. Everybody is making sacrifices. The psychological effect has started taking it’s toll now.”

“He stayed with his wife for two-three days in the hospital, and then my driver dropped them to their place. When he was to return, I sent my driver and car again to pick him up, but cops stopped him. I told him to please show the police the documents that you are returning from a delivery, but they didn’t listen. I had to borrow my friend’s car and drive to the police station,” he says.

Shorey continues, “I tried telling the officer-in-charge that here are the documents, he started saying ‘so what if wife has delivered? Husband should not have come out, doctor and wife could have handled it’. I said no, because the hospital needs husband for paper work. But the cop decided to harass me, and impounded my car, so I told him to give a document for it, he said ‘I will give you, wait’, then I tweeted.”

Further adding that the Government itself has said to not step out unless there’s a good reason, and in this case, it was about a baby, the actor clarifies that he is not pointing fingers at the entire police force. “I blame that one policeman who was for sure hell-bent on harassing us. By and large in the eight hours at the police station, I learnt that most cops were nice. They are also under a lot of pressure. Everybody is scre*ed,” he says.

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