- Bollywood film about the COVID-19 issue in India in black and white.
- His biggest supporters were his incredibly skilled lead actors, Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar.
- Perhaps ‘Bheed’ will be her first and only black-and-white film.
It takes courage to make a Bollywood film about the COVID-19 issue in India in black and white, but filmmaker Anubhav Sinha took that unconventional step in ‘Bheed,’ which opens in UAE theatres on March 24.
However, the choice of grey canvas received widespread approval. His biggest supporters were his incredibly skilled lead actors, Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar. They are both fascinating performers in their own right.
“It was very liberating,” said Pednekar in a joint interview with Rao over video.
Pednekar, 33, even claims that her mettle as a performer was put to the test because the traditional crutches accessible to an actor were not available for her to lean on. Perhaps ‘Bheed’ will be her first and only black-and-white film.
“It’s also extremely challenging because there are no distractions. It’s just you and your eyes do most of the talking. You’re just naked. And honestly, such an opportunity happens only once in a lifetime … But for ‘Bheed’ there couldn’t have been a better visual narrative,” said Pednekar.
Bollywood films are notorious for being flashy and colourful, but Sinha who has directed hard-hitting films such as ‘Article 13’ and ‘Mulk’ has never shied away from taking on bold topics and giving it his own sensible spin.
‘Bheed’, a tale of a ‘crisis within a crisis’, is no different. This ensemble drama, also boasting talents like Kritika Kamra, Dia Mirza, Pankaj Kapur, and Ashutosh Rana, is a searing look into the migrant labour crisis triggered by the sudden lockdown in 2020 in India owing to the global pandemic.
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