Bhakshak Review – Rediff.com movies
Bhakshak ought to create some consciousness and possibly elevate some compassion in direction of victims of abuse, observes Deepa Gahlot.
There are sporadic media studies on the horrific abuse of women in orphanages and shelter houses — helpless minors exploited by the very folks tasked with their care.
After a couple of days of shock, the information is forgotten as some recent sensation occupies the media.
Pulkit’s movie Bhakshak, based mostly on a real story, is a few fearless journalist who tenaciously follows up and exposes abuse in a shelter dwelling run by a strong gangster.
Vaishali Singh (Bhumi Pednekar) has an impartial information channel in Patna, with only one different staffer, the previous and smart Bhaskar (Sanjay Mishra). He’s her cameraman, assistant and sounding board.
It’s not clear how she funds the channel and what viewers she has, however she has cash to pay an informer, Gupta (Durgesh Kumar), slightly beneficiant sums for leads.
Who this man is or how he comes by his info is just not clarified both, however he provides her a report that talks about sexual abuse in a shelter dwelling in Munawwarpur, run by the menacing Bansi Sahu (Aditya Srivastava).
Due to his clout within the corridors of energy, with politicians, cops and bureaucrats on his payroll, no motion is taken on such a damning report.
How did any company get shut sufficient into the shelter to file these information, or who signed off on it, is just not defined.
The painfully earnest movie is slightly skinny on essential particulars however that doesn’t take away from Vaishali’s mission.
The movie opens with a grim scene of a woman being tortured and killed, so the veracity of the information is just not in query.
The viewers is already primed to root for anybody who can carry such monsters to heel.
Later, there are extra scenes of the ladies being mauled by males, with the assistance of the sinister feminine warden, Child Rani (Gulista Alija).
Expectedly, Vaishali’s preliminary investigations are stonewalled.
A bureaucrat from the social welfare division (Chittaranjan Tripathy) says he may take motion provided that he formally acquired the report.
A smiling Bansi simply threatens her, a black automotive follows her round and cops refuse to file a grievance when her brother-in-law is attacked.
Vaishali additionally has to struggle a battle at dwelling, the place her husband Arvind (Surya Sharma) complains when she is just not dwelling to prepare dinner a meal or her household needs to know why, after six years of marriage, they don’t have youngsters.
It by no means happens to Vaishali to hint the supply of the report, however she begins speaking in regards to the police and authorities inaction on her channel.
Unusually, no different media outlet picks up on the scandal, when that is simply the form of sensational information that may seize eyeballs.
She finds one woman (Tanisha Mehta), who witnessed what occurred inside the house, and managed to flee and bases her expose on her reluctant testimony.
She additionally, lastly, will get the assist of the newly transferred feminine police officer Jasmeet Gaur (Sai Tamhankar).
Pulkit and his Director Of Pictures Kumar Saurabh get the dingy ugliness of a small city, the place folks residing proper subsequent door to that home of horrors would absolutely pay attention to the goings-on however ignore it.
As a background track goes, Shamil Hain, blaming all of society for its complicity on this crime towards ladies.
That is how corruption and apathy corrodes society, and have been it not for a couple of good folks, issues can be much more hellish for the underprivileged. Orphan ladies are essentially the most susceptible as a result of no one cares in the event that they disappear. Even sincere cops are hampered by the crimson tape of process.
Bhumi Pednekar is given a slightly one-note position however she aces it along with her sincerity because the voice of journalistic conscience that’s attending to be more and more weak.
The casting of the opposite characters is spot on.
Apparently, Bhakshak has been produced by Shah Rukh Khan’s Pink Chillies. The star might not do a practical movie like this himself nevertheless it’s good to know that his backing will get it made and exhibited.
A considerably half-baked Bhakshak doesn’t reveal something new, however as a result of it’s on a well-liked streaming channel, it is going to be seen by much more folks than if it have been launched within the cinemas.
It ought to create some consciousness and possibly elevate some compassion in direction of victims of abuse.
It could be an excessive amount of to anticipate a social marketing campaign or sustained motion by the torpid system, however not less than the movie does its bit in direction of the trigger.
Bhakshak streams on Netflix.
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