Critics reviews

Sinha has not only chosen a difficult story to tell but he ensures he makes it an equally difficult watch. Shot in stark black and white, Bheed doesn’t let you breathe.

What Bheed might lack in depth and nuance, it makes up for with an underlying sense of urgency and a righteous call for overhauling the justice system by handing it over to the poor and the powerless.

Anubhav Sinha’s Bheed is not a bad film. It’s a powerful, conscientious film that explores police brutality, class privilege, caste divide, religious mistrust, an apathetic state and its impact on the state machinery and the disempowered. But it’s a film that has been robbed of its political and constitutional courage. And it’s not the film we were first promised.

Anubhav Sinha has kneaded the infection of novel coronavirus with insidious social discrimination to craft a compelling statement that stands out in the crowd of films made during the pandemic.

Bheed paints a poignant picture of a turbulent period... Bheed also comes to the point quickly. It doesn’t resort to migrant workers’ plight-porn.

Taking a scalpel to the caste system, director Anubhav Sinha exposes how sub-castes and other divisions stamp out solidarity.