The Extended Canon
Bheed
भीड़ · 2023
A checkpost during the 2020 lockdown becomes a pressure chamber for caste, class and the migrant walk home. Shot in black and white.
- Director
- Anubhav Sinha
- Year
- 2023
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Pankaj Kapur, Ashutosh Rana
Why it's in the canon
The only mainstream Hindi film willing to look straight at the migrant crisis.
A checkpost during the 2020 lockdown becomes a pressure chamber for caste, class and the migrant walk home. Shot in black and white.
Bheed sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anubhav Sinha — also responsible for Article 15, Thappad.
- Released in 2023, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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