Those 21 days of nationwide silence, when everything was at a standstill, took many back in the time of partition. Even Anubhav Sinha's 'Bheed' had mentioned it in the 'uncensored' trailer. Bheed (crowd) is pegged on the migrant worker's crisis during the time of Corona lockdown of 2020. After watching the movie, one would feel that a lot has not come on the platter as a product of Censor Board's scissors. The movie has been shot in black and white with many gray areas that haven't been covered out of the 'ban' fear. Rather than totally concentrating on the plight of migrants, the movie very smartly overpowers casteism which has become convenient and acceptable by many over a period of time. Bheed’s story is by Sinha, with the script and discourses credited to Sinha, Saumya Tiwari, and Sonali Jain. The film is set at the very launch of the lockdown when workers had just begun an en masse return to their villages and indeed the rich were floundering to come to terms with the unknown res

Author-Vibhuti Pathak