BHEED REVIEW

With the help of strong performances from Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Kapur, and Aditya Srivastava, Bheed tackles the issue of caste and class division during the COVID-19 era.

People feared when the outbreak of Covid-19 first hit India, stockpiling supplies and barricading themselves within their homes. Some were with family members, while others were on their own in different cities.

However, it was the migrant laborers who were left befuddled and stranded on the roadways as they attempted to return to their villages. Anubhav Sinha is the only actor who can convey such true emotions on screen. In his movie, Bheed, which came out on Thursday, March 24, the filmmaker effectively brought back terrible memories of the pandemic.

The migrants stranded on the roadways, a mother’s battle to get her daughter back from another city, a frontline doctor, a police officer, a politician, and reporters reporting on the migrants’ plight – Bheed has it all, and it doesn’t feel crowded or theatrical. The black-and-white film is as cruel as it gets, tearing your heart several times.

‘Ghar se nikal kar gaye the, ghar se hi aa rahe hain aur ghar se hi jaa rahe hain,’ says the narrator. In the film, Bheed, a migrant laborer makes this statement, which neatly encapsulates the plot.

Bheed, which was shot mostly on a single road, recounts the painful experience of laborers who fled their villages in search of work in other cities.

However, when the country’s government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown was announced in May 2020, it resulted in the evacuation of approximately 10 million migrant laborers. In Bheed, there’s a police officer named Rajkummar Rao who carries out the responsibility for blocking roadways to prevent individuals from returning back to their villages and spreading the virus.

The laborers are forced to wait on the highways and in the neighboring fields without food or water. A mother (Dia Mirza) is desperate to get across the Uttar Pradesh border and reconnect with her daughter. On her bicycle, a young girl with an ill father searches for ways to return home.

Surya (Rajkumar Rao), the duty in-charge, is a well-written character. While he works hard to maintain law and order, he feels divided by the caste discrimination he faces regularly. Bhumi Pednekar, who portrays a doctor, plays Surya’s girlfriend.

Even with Rajkummar at the helm, Anubhav manages to keep the focus on the core issue. Pankaj Kapur is an influential member of the influential Pandit community in Bheed.

Bheed is so brutally honest that it will break your heart to think about the suffering refugees faced throughout the pandemic. Anubhav Sinha made sure that watching this terrible story made him uncomfortable.

Unlike popular Bollywood films, the filmmaker avoided drama while keeping the narrative controlled and tight. Nothing is political here; it’s just about feelings.

“No one ever plans for the poor,” Rajkummar Rao argues, exposing the erroneous class divisions. Bheed examines the social divide & class system in Indian society.

Three cheers for the filmmaking crew. Bheed depicts graphic images of migrants sleeping on railway tracks and being knocked over by trains, people walking barefoot with bloody toenails, starving children screaming, and much more. Keep an eye out for the moment when people are discovered hiding in cement mixers. Bheed is horrible even without blood.

Throughout the movie, no time is lost in building up the story. Dialogues such as ‘Hamara nyaay hamari aukaat se bohot bahar hai’ and ‘Gareeb aadmi ke liye kabhi intezaam nahi hota’ will keep you entertained.

In one scene, Pankaj assaults a doctor who is wearing a PPE kit while treating his brother. He refers to it as ‘nautanki,’ and goes on to say, ‘Sardi khasi hai bas, Covid thodi hai.’ This reminds us of how we all responded when Covid initially arrived in India. Anubhav has considered every conceivable aspect.

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Rajkummar Rao delivers an outstanding performance as a police officer. He doesn’t hold back and always gives his all. Bhumi Pednekar is similarly effective.

Bheed’s tears will suffocate you and leave a lump in your throat. The movie will help you recognize how fortunate you were during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bheed is a good choice if you want to know the real facts about folks who were homeless during the Covid era.