Bheed

BHEED is a slow, intense, unrelenting, thought-provoking, and above all, a CHALLENGING film.

It sets itself apart from other COVID-19 dramas by also being an effective contained thriller set in a secluded police checkpoint near a mall.

Pankaj Kapur, Rajkumar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar give some of their best performances to date in this film.

BHEED is indeed a slow burn, and will not appeal to everyone. Do not expect a conventional, action-heavy thriller from this movie. BHEED shows the harrowing real, but unseen stories of the pandemic, the ones that many of us had turned a blind eye to.

I do have one criticism of BHEED - some of its stories (particularly the one about the divorced mother) were not developed enough to have any lasting emotional impact.

The movie's story is around some true events during the COVID lockdown. It shows the failures of the mismanagement of the Indian government.

The direction and acting of all the actors were perfect. The story raises many issues, like our society's caste system, polarization, and misinformation. The movie also shows how we are all humans. Do not fall for the negative reviews.

The story is about multiple characters who either needed to leave their homes in a big city or got stranded and needed to reach some location due to the lockdown.

On the border of a fictional town, a police officer and his subordinates are supposed to stop the crowd from entering the town.

If you like movies closer to reality and are unafraid of seeing the uncomfortable truth, please watch.

Films that make you uncomfortable, for all the right reasons, are few and far between. That hold a mirror and show you the kind of society that you are and the possibilities of what you can chose to become. That don't seem to be made with intent of commercial success, but with an intent of striking at the conscience. Such films need to be celebrated.

Bheed is one such endeavour. It is set in the initial days of the first lockdown, during March- april of 2020 and follows the action at an interstate checkpost, across which all movement, of vehicles as well as of humans has been prohibited.

It intermixes this with sometime subtle and sometimes explicit commentary on the casteist as well as communal mindset along with class- divide.

Rajkumar Rao is sensational. Almost oscar worthy. So is Pankaj Kapoor.

Anubhav Sinha gets back in form, after the ordinary Anek. This is amongst his top films, right up there with Mulk and Thappad. There are multiple scenes that show his obvious political leanings, but he does up a fabulous job with the tough subject.

Mandatory watch.

I saw this on Netflix few days back.

This is one of the best realistic cinema to come out from Bollywood.

I feel this movie wasn't advertised well nor did this movie got its due due to political reasons.

The movie is noted for Anubhav Sinha's passionate depiction of the plight of the poor, and many fascists will definitely attack the social and political views.

Bheed is a must watch for anyone who wants to know what happened to the migrant workers during the first wave of covid.

The song herail ba, its music n voice is mesmerizing.

Pankaj Kapoor gave a solid performance. His accent of that of the North Indian is spot on.

Rajkumar Rao gave a very restrained but good performance.

The movie also handled the Tablighi Jamaat issue in a very realistic way.

The Chief Justice of India Sharad Bobde observed "evasiveness" in that the Government of India's affidavit filed in response to petitions challenging the discriminatory and communal coverage of the Tablighi Jamaat incident by some sections of the media.

The Bombay High Court quashed the FIRs.

The court observed: "A political government tries to find the scapegoat when there is pandemic or calamity and the circumstances show that there is probability that the Jaamat was chosen to make them scapegoats.

Anubhav Sinha is the master of his craft of story telling, the latest example is Bheed. The movie is based on COVID mass migration crisis and related small stories. The script is very tight and keeps the audience hooked till the end and make them aware of many untouched aspects of COVID. Background score provide good support to the story. If we talk about acting, Rajkumar Rao delivers one of the best performance of his career. In a supporting role Ashutosh Rana and Aditya Shrivastav creat a big impact, their performances will remain with you for quite long time. Pankaj Kapoor is mind blowing and elevated the movie to the next level. Bhumi Padnekar and Diya Mirza lends very good support. At the end, movie is as good as it's direction and for this I have only one word for Anubhav Sinha- Awesome.