Plot

A wide and thrilling chronicle of how India lived and breathed during the six months of the lockdown through the eyes of various individuals. Four storylines clash as the pandemic exposes the biggest endemic condition of India - hunger.

On 23rd March, 2020 at the stroke of the midnight hour India went into a hard, total lockdown. The next few months changed the very fabric of the country as the pandemic exposed the nation's biggest endemic problem - hunger. A sensitive and honest portrayal of survival in the toughest of times, 'Lords of Lockdown' chronicles the months between March to August of India's financial capital Mumbai - through the eyes of a food distribution NGO, a journalist who initiated relief efforts in Dharavi, a Uro-Gynecologist doctor who treated Covid afflicted pregnant ladies in the lockdown, and the Inspector General of the Railways as they all converged towards a crisis of devastating proportions - the exodus of daily wage migrant workers by foot.