Movie Review — Bhakshak — Netflix

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Name of the Movie: Bhakshak
Channel: Netflix
Language: Hindi with Subtitles
Recommendation. Must See, subject to TW.
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TW: Sexual Assault, Sexual violence, Extreme Abuse, Gore and Violence

I started seeing this movie almost as soon as it landed on Netflix. It has an interesting synopsis and Bhumi Pednekar. She is known to pick excellent projects with social relevance.
Within 5 minutes of starting the movie, I dropped it. I was completely put off by the very first scenes. This is one of my pet peeves with Indian cinema and books. For some reason, they depict things to an extreme degree, so much that it completely masks the rest of the movie/book. 99% of the time it is completely useless as well and has no meaningful contribution to the story. That was true for this movie too. Start the movie 5 minutes in and you would have saved yourself that gore. It has 0 contribution to the movie so no loss either.
Coming back to my narrative, this was firmly a ‘drop’ for me until i saw a clip, from the movie on an IG post, and it peaked my interest again. I decided to watch again. I skipped the first 5 minutes and also fast forwarded scenes that came later that explicitly depicted abuse. It took away nothing from my movie experience and on the contrary I thoroughly enjoyed the movie for its true value — Investigative Journalism and reporting at its best!