“Bhakshak” Movie Review

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Pulkit is the director of the 2024 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller Bhakshak, which is produced by Red Chillies Entertainment’s Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma.Starring in the movie are Sai Tamhankar, Aditya Srivastava, Sanjay Mishra, and Bhumi Pednekar. On February 9, 2024, Netflix launched it.

“Bhakshak” PLOT & IMAGES

In the film Bhakshak, we follow journalist Vaishali as she unearths a sinister secret at a shelter home. There, she finds out about the abuse of young girls. Vaishali encounters numerous challenges in her quest to reveal the truth, including dangers to her family. Vaishali battles the strong individuals responsible for the abuse with the aid of a brave girl named Sudha and a kind police officer named SS Jasmeet Kaur. Justice is eventually served, and the guilty parties are exposed. The film emphasizes the value of speaking out against injustice and defending the moral high ground.

In Bhakshak, director Pulkit Negi avoids sensationalism despite the film’s awful crime against impoverished children, yet there’s a noticeable lack of the artistic rigour that elevates a gritty news story to a compelling work of cinema.

Some of the content on streaming services these days sounds like the well-meaning but ineffectively presented progressive sentiments of a political party. Another addition to the collection of well-intentioned exposures of systemic flaws is Bhakshak (Predator). Sensationalism is avoided, but it is scrutinized from the outside.

It appears as though the concept has been approved as it is based on a real event and that the creatives have completed some basic research to keep the urban audience interested. It is loosely based on the horrifying Muzaffarpur shelter house case of 2018 that shocked the country. There is a noticeable lack of the visual rigor that elevates a compelling news story to the level of an engaging film.

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Director Pulkit serves the text and subtext on the table, leaving nothing for the spectator to read and experience; it feels like a somber visual essay. Maybe this is the reason why even seasoned performers like Aditya Shrivastava and Sanjay Mishra sound like stock characters.

Bhumi Pednekar is showing courage in her choice of subjects by focusing on issues that are relevant to society and politics in the current era. Here, she portrays Vaishali, an adventurous journalist who manages a local news channel alongside an elderly, cranky cameraman named Bhaskar (Mishra).

One day, Vaishali receives a shocking social audit report from an informant about a shelter house owned and operated by a powerful Bansi Sahu (Shrivastava) in politics. The report, which accuses Bansi and his assistants of sexually abusing the prisoners, might be destroyed. Strangely, the journalist seems unwilling to speak with the people who carried out the social audit. Given how risky the writers’ employment was, it should have mattered to them that they possessed the first-person narrative. Or maybe they intended for it to be a movie about only one heroine. Vaishali’s persistent search for a witness makes us question the quality of her journalism.

By chance, she discovers a cook who has experience working at the shelter house. Both the manner she recounts her story and the sudden appearance of a public interest petition seem forced and overly convenient. Vaishali struggles to control her activist side, but her family puts a stop to her since they think her devotion is dangerous. The way Pulkit has portrayed her brother-in-law and husband as the results of patriarchy is also nothing new.

Subsequently, the video depicts the challenging work small-town journalists have when covering major stories. Local news is primarily driven by leaks of stories and videos rather than long, self-righteous pieces to camera, even though it may not always be morally right. The major media must then take notice of it after it occurs. Vaishali, the movie’s voice actress, appears to be speaking from the edit page in this scene.

She spends the entire movie trying to find her footing, while Bhaskar, who is older and wiser, never stops asking her stupid questions. To catch predators in the real world, you need more effective tactics. However, a consistent stream of content is also required to stock streaming companies’ libraries.