Bheed

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.

Bheed by Anubhav Sinha - first of all, watching this film in black and white was a unique experience on the big screen. Set in a fictional state and town with all vehicles number plates CP. It shows what happened during the height of pandemic at a town border, when all migrants wanted to return to their town. I feel that writers literally took all the headlines going around during the pandemic, compressed them to one place and all the problems were faced in a single day.

Every topic was covered caste, religion, politics and poverty. Due to this, the story didn't feel focused and the movie's runtime was only 1h50m. This needed a slower approach and maybe it was too soon to release this film. They could have made it 5-10 years later. It shows poor management by the current govt.

The acting was wonderful, but these were the best - Rajkumar Rao, Dia Mirza, Aditya Srivastava, Pankaj Kapoor and Aushutosh Rana.

So I saw the censor board certificate which states all the cuts done in this film, I feel, due to this, 50% impact of the film is lost.

This is a film about a dark aspect of our (India's) society, which came to light during Corona lockdown of March 2020.

The film weaves through web of the class-caste, professional privileges of the characters in the film. It brings in front of us the crisis of migrant workers attempting to return to their villages.

They left villages in search of livelihood to the city, the city, they and many of us, considered our to be our home. But during the lockdown, cities were least concerned about the workers who make city a comfortable space for living.

This film is not for entertainment. It is for making the viewer question, their own system of rights, justice, privileges and their compromised existence.

This is a black and white film, which symbolically represents the ways of thinking and behaviour, dating back to the era of films in black and white, a long time ago.

The ways of our thinking are old, outdated and static. The use of black and white filmography clearly brings this out.

This film doesn't give you any shocking images, neither it gives you any climax. But it will make every sensitive person to sit through the film, without giving them a room for thinking anything else than what they see in the film.

Characters in the film are very real, they represent various sections of the caledioscope that Indian society is in the 21st century.

Very good dialogues, acting and direction.

United We Stand Divided We Fall-Is the message which this film wants to convey. If we are united we Are 'Civilized Society' If we Divide we are 'Bheed'. The problem with the Indian society is classism and casteism. If we unite together we can bring down any problem heading our way. Us Indians are naive and hence are often exploited by the powerful people as they divide and rule us(whether it were Mughals, Britishers, Despotic Government) Quite ENOUGH, now lets talk about the film.

The film showcases How people from different communities and caste unite together to fight system which is causing them Trouble. ALL THE ACTORS HAVE DONE COMMENDABLE JOB. Film has some loose plots. But the message is very clear. The film shouldn't have been banned. Could've been proved an eye opener to the blind Devouts.

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.