![]() ![]() ![]() In love with an upper caste girl, Renu Sharma (Bhumi Pednekar), who is strangely unaware of what the relationship entails, Surya could not shake off his caste identity when he takes off his shirt. One of the most stirring strands of the film is how the spectre of caste has scarred the soul of Surya, so much so that it has affected his performance in his love life. The psychological unraveling of Surya and Balram’s desperation to assert his social superiority in a desperate situation makes Bheed an engaging and important watch. When COVID-19 generates a new social order where everybody is almost equally helpless, Surya starts seeing his reflection in the eyes of Balram who is seeking food for his family members. But Surya Kumar Singh ( Rajkummar Rao), a young, upright police officer, isn’t sure of his power even when he is made the in-charge of the post by his well-meaning superior Yadav (Ashutosh Rana), because his lower caste identity comes in the way. Spurred by the unprecedented situation, Balram Trivedi (Pankaj Kapur), an upper caste watchman of a high rise in a metropolis, turns into a different kettle of fish when he is a few kilometres away from his village. ![]() The audience have to closely listen to the surnames of the characters as the film captures how caste informs the behaviour of a person. If Article 15 was from the gaze of a high-caste police officer finding his feet in a difficult situation the companion piece is from the point of view of a lower-rung officer, caught between his social identity and an unprecedented state of affairs. When the protagonist says, “we could not make arrangements for them (migrant workers) when they were in the villages, we could not take care of them when they were in the cities and now we could not take care of them when they are back,” it sums up the situation for things haven’t changed back home. Shot in black and white, early in the film, we watch the stark image of a severely injured person who is beaten up because he dared to drink water from a place of worship during the pandemic.Īlso Read: Anubhav Sinha on ‘Bheed’, Bhushan Kumar, and changes to trailerĪs someone who addressed the caste matrix well in Article 15, Sinha once again cries for social justice without romanticising it. The film states that the market has systematically turned migrant workers into cheap labour and that they would return at the first opportunity. It is the incisive dialogues that propel the story. The writers (Sinha, Saumya Tiwari, and Sonali Jain) tie up the diverse snapshots of people caught in the unprecedented situation fairly well. Set at a junction on the State border, it is an account of a caravan of migrants of different social hues who are stopped by a police officer who is dealing with another virus that is prevailing for centuries in society. Storyline: An account of migration during the lockdown and what happens when a diverse set of people are stopped by a police officer, who is dealing with his own demons, at a State borderĭeeply political in its thought, provocative in its composition, and humane in its gaze, Bheed shows us the mirror that we took off our walls once the pandemic receded into the background. ![]()
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