Director: Pulkit
One reporter refuses to let a buried story stay buried in Bhakshak, a 2024 Hindi crime drama built around a shelter that hides far more than it protects.
What is Bhakshak about?
Working a beat that rarely gets attention, a local journalist starts pulling on a thread involving a girls' shelter and the abuses quietly tolerated within its walls. Officials stonewall her, records go missing, and the people meant to safeguard the shelter's residents turn out to be the ones most invested in keeping the truth hidden. The film follows her mounting, dogged investigation as she pieces together testimony and evidence against a system built to discourage exactly this kind of digging.
Cast & crew
Bhumi Pednekar leads the film as the journalist driving the investigation, bringing a grounded, unglamorous intensity to the role. Sanjay Mishra and Aditya Srivastava anchor key supporting parts, with Sai Tamhankar and Surya Sharma rounding out a cast that leans into procedural detail over spectacle. Director Pulkit keeps the pacing tight across the film's roughly 134-minute runtime, favoring tension built from bureaucracy and denial.
Context & significance
Set and produced in India, Bhakshak arrived in 2024 as a drama grounded in the harder edges of investigative journalism, using its crime elements to expose institutional failure rather than to shock. Audience response has been notably strong, with the film holding a 7.2 rating on IMDb, and much of that reception centers on how plainly it portrays the obstacles facing anyone who tries to hold institutions accountable. K-Time streams Bhakshak with a Persian dub, making its dialogue-heavy, procedural story easy to follow for Farsi-speaking viewers from the first scene.
Where & how to watch
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