Bheed Movie Review

The Bollywood movie 'Bheed,' shot in black and white by director Anubhav Sinha, stars Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Pankaj Kapur and more, highlighting the ...

In a rather interesting scene involving Tikas and Sharma, Bheed shows how much that can impact even the most intimate relations, though, ultimately, the film is not able to communicate its larger point very clearly. Posts on social media promise that the government is in a huddle and discussing what relief can be extended to the millions who are trying to get home. After a somewhat jarring thriller type of twist, Bheed ends exactly as every man-made tragedy ends in India: With a hat-tip to the resilience of the poor. Also stuck at the border is a bus full of Muslims, a man related to an important, local politician and a woman (Dia Mirza) in an SUV, with her driver Kanaiya (Sushil Pandey) at the steering wheel. He has shot Bheed in black and white, which gives the film an artsy touch. There’s a point and purpose to this. Bheed focuses a lot on caste and caste-conflict. In this one, mass exodus and state brutality featured as if it were a result of a natural calamity, with the focus on how people behaved on-ground and not on how a decision taken at the top had a chilling effect. The police chowki on a kachha road seems to be set in some dusty dystopia. So there are announcements to wear masks, keep social distancing, and some basic testing of those with symptoms. The context was real and the harrowing scenes were part of India’s collective nightmare. The orders are simple: No one is to be allowed in.