There’s an elderly security guard travelling on a bus then a film crew arrives from a TV news channel. Chaos reigns in Los Angeles when three criminals, led by a psychotic mastermind named McMasters, takes over a police station and threaten to kill everyone in it unless a large ransom is paid. With Michael Par, Bai Ling, Michael Wainwright, Scott Engrotti. A young woman who worked as a maid in the city risks her life to get her alcoholic father home to their village. Lockdown: Directed by Massimiliano Cerchi. A rich upper-caste woman (Dia Mirza) waltzes over accompanied by her driver, fully expecting to sail through. All of society turns up at his checkpoint. Still, his boss never lets him forget his place, and we see how Surya has internalised prejudice too. The family is forced to confront the evil that terrorizes them from within before it consumes them all. With nowhere to go and danger approaching from outside. The officer Surya (Rajkummar Rao), is himself from a lower-caste family, but he’s climbing the ladder he is a competent, decent cop who refuses kickbacks or bribes (just what a modern police force needs). Lockdown: 2025 In the shadows of a highly contagious virus, a normal family seeks shelter in the safety of their own home during a nationwide Lockdown in which Martial Law is declared. The results are explosive, exposing the fault lines of caste prejudice and class conflict. But realising that no help is arriving, the crowd, feeling hungry and abandoned, get angry. The police officer has been put in charge of a rural roadblock to stop poor workers returning to their families and villages – preventing the spread of the virus. Shot in black and white, it’s set at the start of the government-imposed lockdown in May 2020 that led to the exodus of 10 million migrant workers from India’s cities. ‘N o one ever plans for the poor,” says a young police officer in this tense, painful pandemic drama from India. The lives of four individuals come to a standstill when the Indian government announces a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Genre: Drama, Action Original Language: English Director: John Luessenhop Producer: Mark Burg, Jeff Clanagan, Oren Koules, Stevie 'Black' Lockett Writer: Preston A.
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