Bheed Movie Review: The cast members who are not in the show include Ashutosh Rana, Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza and Aditya Srivastava – are equally efficient.
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza, Ashutosh Rana, Pankaj Kapur and Kritika Kamra
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Rating: Four stars (out of 5)
In Bheed, out in the theatres three years to the day after the first nationwide Covid-19 lockdown was announced, writer-director-producer Anubhav Sinha quotes Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Buffalo Soldier to stress the importance of knowing “your history” and being conscious of “where you coming from”.
In giving an account that is fictional of the effects of the pandemic as well (especially) that of the nationwide lockdown – on the migrant workers and those who are who are left to their own devices, Bheed, filmed entirely in black and white, is able to show where we’ve been and where we’re headed as a nation that is rife with differences.
The film reveals the pain of the voiceless, and oozes compassion and understanding for those who are left to slumber in the shadows of an uncaring society. take enough care of them. The film makes use of the aftermath of a sudden lockdown reflect on the privileges that we have taken for granted, and the injustices we decide to overlook.
The frank, multi-pronged story filled with allusions to the concept of India and its weaknesses and strengths exposes the cracks and fissures that erode the core of a multi-faceted and complex country afflicted by deep divisions.
Bheed starts with a frightening sequence of exhausted, unrecognizable people – this isn’t a crowd, just a small group of people walking along a railway track. While they lie on their backs to rest, the loud sound of a train’s whistle breaks through the quiet of the night. It soon melds with the human yells and a spooky hint of the future.
Anurag Saikia’s score for music, that later employs the high-pitched shehnai sound which is like a snoring howl which transforms a romantic scene that involves two couples that are unmarried into a metaphor for the anxiety of nervous defiance instead of an affirmation of all-conquering love.
Bheed is a relic of the time when the country’s poor were thrown into the deep end with only even a minimum contingency plan. The harrowing spectacle unfolded in our cities as well as on the highways revealed our collective indifference to those who were marginalised, abused and forced to live with their Irregular existence.
It is compelling account of the many divisions between the governed and the government as well as between those who follow the law as well as the ordinary man as well as between the wealthy as well as the poor wealthy and the poor The sensitive and the insensitive – that get exacerbated by the time the nation is struck by a crisis in the scale of an epidemic.
Bheed is a powerful film that is, in addition to being an act of bravery it is also a plea for those who are privileged to let go of their routine complacency. It illustrates how a disaster could afflict a community where discrimination against the weak and the denigration of minorities is the standard.
The screenplay written by Anubhav Sinha, Saumya Tiwari and Sonali Jain, lays bare the flaws in a stark, minimalist style. The clarity of the visuals is enhanced by Soumik Mukherjee’s quiet, unobtrusive camerawork as well as Atanu Mukherjee’s editing tempos which are diluted through censor board-imposed deletions.
Despite the omissions, Bheed makes its points clearly enough. The film may not transform the way a country thinks however, Bheed is a worthy job of telling a tale and, in reality, many stories that just needed to get told.
Some parts from Bheed might be a bit simple because it has to explain complicated issues in simple and immediately tangible phrases, but for a second does the story of desperate people rushing back to their home villages after the state borders are closed and police are ordered to stop them seem anything less than relevant.
Bheed Box Office Collection Day 1:
This Friday, two big films clashed at the box office – Anubhav Sinha’s Bheed and Chad Stahelski’s John Wick Chapter 4. Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh, in his tweet, on Saturday, revealed that Bheed collected ₹ 29 lakh on Friday while John Wick 4 earned ₹ 3.65 crore on its opening day. Taran Adarsh, in his tweet, deconstructed both the films’ box office performance at different theatre chains.
Read Taran Adarsh’s tweet here:
#Bheed at national chains… Week 1 – Friday…#PVR: 15 lacs#INOX: 8 lacs#Cinepolis: 6 lacs
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) March 25, 2023
⭐️ Total: ₹ 29 lacs#JohnWick4 at national chains… Week 1 – Friday…#PVR: 1.93 cr#INOX: 1.05 cr#Cinepolis: 67 lacs
⭐️ Total: ₹ 3.65 cr pic.twitter.com/WY7I7BM9YY
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