Movie: Bhakshak
On: Netflix
Director: Pulkit
Actors: Bhumi Pednekar, Sanjay Mishra
Rating: 2/5

Bhakshak (Predator) is a realistic film. The only element of fantasy in it is the fact of a two-member, gritty, crusading cameraman-reporter/anchor team, on a Kinetic Honda, running a TV plus YT news channel, that has devoted itself to cover one story, in shocking detail, relentlessly over days, if not months, to uncover the serious shadiness going on inside an all-girls’ shelter.

The news channel is Patna-based, with its reporting remit across Bihar—basically, towns named here such as Samastipur, Sitamarhi, Munger, Darbhanga, Hajipur, Madhubani Motihari… The only place that perhaps doesn’t exist is where this film is supposedly set, i.e. Munawwarpur.