Actor Gautam Rode recalls about his family going through a tough time due to Covid, says “It was a scary period.”

Gautam Rode: “I got Covid in November last year, then my wife (actor Pankhuri Awasthy) and mum, too. The three of us stayed together in one house and dad in the other. It was a scary period.”

Actor Gautam Rode has consistently clung to all Covid-19 precautions. However, the circumstance at home during one point of time compelled him to be more cautious, particularly while resuming work.

He recalls, “I got Covid in November last year, then my wife (actor Pankhuri Awasthy) and mum, too. The three of us stayed together in one house and dad in the other. It was a scary period.”

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Rode, who was recently seen in the web show Naqaab, continues, “Our driver died because of Covid, and that made us more scared, for my mother more than anything else, because of her age and everything. She was, however, the healthiest one out of us. Everyone recovered, I developed antibodies and started shooting after 14 days.”

Also, State of Siege was the first project he went for after recovering. “I started shooting around December 17-18. It was definitely scary. That time, we took a lot of precautions. We finished that, then I moved on to Naqaab, and finished in the beginning of March, with one schedule in March. In between, I kept shooting for something or the other. It’s not been as bad for me as many other people said. Work kept happening, I kept shooting,” says the 44-year-old, who has been a piece of TV shows like Baa Bahoo Aur Baby just as Saraswatichandra.

Going ahead, the actor hopes that the pandemic doesn’t prompt another lockdown. “One can only hope that a third wave doesn’t come,” Rode ends.