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The Central Government announced a countrywide lock-down on March 24, 2020, in order to tackle the spread of the virus. But since a massive part of this country’s population relies on daily wages, the shutdown rendered them penniless, and they had no choice but to return to their villages or towns. However, the unavailability of proper transport forced them to walk for thousands of kilometers. When they were stopped on highways and roads, they took to the railway tracks, assuming that the movement of trains had been stopped. “Bheed” opens with the death of those migrating Indians who died on those train tracks while taking a breather from their seemingly endless journey. A checkpoint around Tejpura where Surya (Rajkummar Rao), along with Ram Singh (Aditya Srivastava), and many other police officers are supposed to prevent anyone crossing interstate borders. Surya has been appointed Officer in Charge for the first time, by his superior Inspector Yadav and he is keen to impress.
There are multiple narratives that converge at that police checkpoint in Tejpura. Surya belongs to a Tikas community that’s deemed lower caste in India. He and his family have faced caste-ism all their lives. So, Surya’s father has removed his last name from his identification documents so that he doesn’t have to face the same going forward. Surya works for Inspector Subhash Yadav (Ashutosh Rana), who has ordered him to set up a check point at Tejpura border and stop any migrants from crossing state lines. He’s in a relationship with Dr. Renu (Bhumi Pednekar), who belongs to an upper-caste family. Since they want to marry each other, Surya wonders if Renu’s family is ever going to accept him as Renu’s husband. Renu warns him that if Surya doesn’t do anything, then Renu’s father is going to forcefully make her marry someone of his choice. Surya reminds her that people hailing from the lower caste community have always fought for their rights, and even in this scenario, he is expected to get the brickbats, while Renu’s father causes all the chaos. Dr Renu is called upon to check on symptomatic patients at the checkpoint.
Trivedi (Pankaj Kapur) is a security guard who is traveling to his home along with many other people from his village. His brother has been infected with the COVID-19 virus, but he refuses to believe that and assumes that everything will be fixed if he gets to enter his village. Trivedi’s lack of scientific knowledge, causes him to lash out against anyone who is trying to stop him. Suraj orders infected people at the checkpoint to be sanitized and moved to a make shift isolation area near the mall (which was next to the checkpoint). Trivedi refuses to allow his brother to be moved and argues with both Ram Singh and Suraj. Trivedi is arrogant about his upper caste status. In the argument, Suraj reveals his caste status, which Trivedi comes to know about. Trivedi begins to discriminate against a bus full of people from the Muslim community as he blames them for being the main reason behind the spreading of the Coronavirus. He even rejects the food packets that one of the Muslim elders was distributing to help the people on Trivedi’s bus. The mob forces the Muslims to get back into their own bus, on the charge that they are the ones spreading Corona. However, upon realizing that religious lines created by human beings don’t matter in a situation like this, he goes back to the Muslim elder and asks for some food. Alas, by then, all the food packets had been distributed. In addition to all that, Trivedi flaunts his Hindu, upper-caste status in front of Surya when he tries to stop Trivedi from entering the nearby mall and stealing food.
A mother (Dia Mirza) who is trying to reach her daughter before her husband does, and her fate is in the hands of her driver, Kanhaiya (Sushil Pandey). There’s a girl (Aditi Subedi) who is trying to get her drunkard father (Omkar Das Manikpuri) and herself to their village by any means possible. The girls strikes a deal with a truck driver to transport them for rs 3500, but the father spent the money on liquor. Disgusted at his selfishness, the girl leaves her father. There is the journalistic team led by reporter Vidhi Prabhakar (Kritika Kamra), who is interviewing anyone she can get her hands on at the police checkpoint. The girl and a drunkard father are found in a cement mixer, which had the paperwork to pass the checkpoint. Unfortunately, the truck got stuck in a ditch and noises were heard from inside the truck and it was emptied, revealing the smuggled migrants. Although the mother appears to be an empathetic figure, she shows her upper-class opportunistic mindset. The girl and her father had found a way through the check post and the mother followed her. But when they fell into a ditch, she refused to help them. Thankfully, Kanhaiya is there to remind her that if people don’t help each other during these difficult times, then they are worse than animals. Vidhi is there to show how journalism can be important when it comes to showing government complacency and blatant moments of oppression.
According to the Indian Express, around 8700 people returning to their respective homes died on the train tracks. Of course, those are the official numbers. The unreported statistics can be far higher than that. Trivedi wonders why people are talking about borders between neighboring states. In India, there wasn’t any such thing until the national lock-down in 2020. The Government evidently did it to stop the infections. However, due to the lack of infrastructure or guidelines, or training, in terms of how to handle large amounts of sick and starving crowds, these checkpoints only increased the harassment and anxiety that the people of India were facing.
WhatsApp forwards, Facebook posts, and incendiary reporting by the mainstream media in India these three things caused a lot of damage in an already unprecedented situation. As per The Wire, a lot of COVID-19 misinformation was spread through Whatsapp without being fact-checked. The Economic Times reported that Facebook had to team up with eight fact-checking organizations to ensure that their feed wasn’t filled with all kinds of fake news and misinformation. Muslim community was specifically targeted. It all began with the members of the Tablighi Jamaat that got stuck in India due to the COVID-19 lock-down. As per the official page of Human Rights Watch, the Indian media even came up with all kinds of Islamophobic terms to fuel hatred against Muslims. Things got so bad that the World Health Organization had to issue a request not to profile people according to their caste, creed, or religion because the COVID-19 virus clearly doesn’t see such man-made boundaries. Eventually, everyone found out that none of the members of the Tablighi Jamaat were guilty of spreading the COVID-19 virus. However, not a single member of the Indian media or the Indian civil society came forward to apologize for the Demonization that they partook in.
The makeshift health wards and the lack of hospital beds shown is nothing in comparison to the dreadful scenarios that the people of India had to face. According to DW, hospitals faced a shortage of trained medical individuals dealing with the never-ending line of infected people. They were running out of oxygen cylinders. People had to sleep on the floor, in the parking lot, or in the ambulances they were arriving in to avoid crowding the corridors of the hospitals. The lack of sanitary pads is mentioned twice, which is yet another real crisis that the girls of India had to face. As reported by the BBC, schools were one of the biggest sources of free sanitary napkins for girls. But since they were closed due to the corona-virus lock-down, they had to purchase them, thereby highlighting that something as essential as a sanitary pad isn’t available for free in India. Migrants are cleansed by spraying a sanitizing liquid on them. That happened in Bareilly, according to the BBC, and sparked such an outrage that India’s Ministry of Health and Welfare had to release an advisory. NDTV reported that 18 migrants were found hiding in a cement mixer truck to get to Lucknow. In addition to all that, the police brutality displayed is nothing in comparison to the real thing where, as per QZ, the police used guns, batons, and everything in their arsenal to beat up citizens under the garb of preventing them from flouting COVID-19 norms.
Seeing that things are taking a turn for the worse, Surya requests his superior, Yadav (Ashutosh Rana), to turn the nearby mall into a refuge for the people to rest up, eat, and freshen up. But Yadav exposes his caste-ism by saying that people belonging to the lower classes aren’t allowed to enter a mall after it’s built. They are only allowed to enter the premises when they are being built. At the same time, Trivedi gives Surya an ultimatum: if he and his police forces don’t allow him to enter the mall and procure some food items for the people on his bus, he’s going to do the same forcefully. Renu tells Surya that Trivedi is not wrong. Surya’s sense of justice has to be different from the brand dispensed by the upper castes.
Yadav is frustrated as his parents have Corona and he is not able to secure a hospital bed for them. The hospital administrator has kept the beds reserved for members of his own community. Yadav takes additional forces to the checkpoint himself. After an hour goes by, all hell breaks loose as Trivedi makes his way to the mall. While the police partake in brutality, Trivedi unleashes his caste-ism on Surya and even grabs a gun to protect himself while stealing food from the mall. Surya goes after him to calm him down and help him help everyone else. However, since Yadav and Ram Singh escalate things by going after Trivedi with guns, Surya plots Trivedi’s escape by staging a hostage situation, with Surya acting as Trivedi’s hostage.
Surya and Trivedi drive off into the distance on a bike, and the police chase them down. When Surya thinks that the police aren’t nearby anymore, he advises Trivedi to take the bike and run away. Trivedi realizes that that means he won’t be able to help the people on his bus and blames Surya for misleading him. Surya says that he’s helping him get away from a volatile situation, and he should be thankful for that. Trivedi, unable to understand what’s his crime, wonders why he has to run away just because he demanded food, shelter, and water. Although Surya doesn’t give a direct answer, he essentially insinuates that people from lower castes have historically faced oppression for fighting for their basic rights and items that are essential for survival. When they part ways, Yadav nabs Surya and Ram Singh nabs Trivedi.
In the heat of the moment, Surya tells Yadav that he isn’t going to bow down to anyone because of the family he was born into and the caste system that upper-caste people still continue to promote to this day. Although he’s probably going to lose his job, Surya ensures that the check-post stands till the end of the day. He feeds all the migrants with food from the mall. But even if he succeeds in keeping his job, he has to start another fight, which is to make sure that he doesn’t become a victim of caste violence after marrying Renu. On the flip side, Trivedi avoids a police encounter by pouring all the money in his pockets into Ram Singh’s hands. Upper caste folk always have a way out because they’ve people in every department to look after their own. Meanwhile, if someone from a lower caste community tries to break the wheel, they’ll probably end up getting hurt, and the proverbial wheel will keep turning. The checkpoint, which is filled with migrant workers waiting to go home, thereby serving as a stark reminder of a horrific chapter in the history of modern India.
