Anubhav Sinha Talks ‘Bheed,’ Reveals Benaras Mediaworks Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran After “Mulk” (2018), “Article 15” (2019), “Thappad” (2020) and “Anek” (2022), filmmaker Anubhav Sinha is back with “Bheed,” another hard-hitting film that shines a light on the fabric of Indian society.
The film is set during the 2020 Indian pandemic lockdown and tells the poignant story of migrant workers stranded without basic necessities while trying to go home to their villages.
Shot in black and white, it is deliberately evocative of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan when people were uprooted from their homes in the largest migration in history. “When the pandemic hit, people were seeking help on Twitter.
Everybody had different strengths so we were helping each other and, and I really got sucked into it. And that was the time when I felt that this film had to be made, this period of time has to be recorded, and I didn’t want it to be just a Coronavirus film,” Sinha told Variety. “I’ve put in a Bob Marley quote in the beginning of the film, ‘If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from’.” Sinha says that India has seen some trying times but the country somehow ends up sticking together. “At a time where we were betraying each other in India, people were firing their house help, factory workers were being fired, the exodus started like that and people started walking to their homes,” Sinha said. “A whole lot of good things happened in that process, people were distributing food and whatnot.
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