'It's alright': Manav Gohil's short film addresses rising rate of unemployment amid COVID-19 induced lockdown

It is a huge issue and grievance to people right now along with the coronavirus lockdown, the rising rate of unemployment across various industries and organisations. Television actor Manav Gohil who recently released a short film titled It's Alright said that he got the idea for the film after his friend was fired during the lockdown and he felt concerned. 

He said, "It all happened organically. I was thinking about my friend and looking at so many cases of people losing their jobs, be it rich or poor migrants and daily wage earners. So I thought that this is the most relevant topic to create something new. Shweta (Kawaatra, wife) was kind enough to help me shoot this at home and my daughter (Zahra Tabeetha Gohil, 8) too got featured for the first time."

Check out the short film here. 

The film released on YouTube shows the journey of a father who suddenly gets a call which informs him that the organisation is undergoing a 40% cut on employment and that he should also start looking out for a job. Speaking about the same, Manav said, "There are people worried about repaying loans of their house or car, or house rent, or paying their child’s school fee. Our financial grounds have been badly shaken. With no source of earning, this leads them to depression and commit suicide, something which we keep reading about in the news."

Manav also said that he is confident that the people who left the city such as aspiring actors, daily wage workers, or migrants will all come back as "the ambitions will pull them back to the city". He further added that Mumbai is the city of aspirations and it will be buzzing with excitement again. Things are going to be normal but different.