The most awaited movie of the year ‘Bhoomi‘ has been finally released today. The movie is directed and co-produced by Omung Kumar. The movie features Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sharad Kelkar and Sidhant Gupta. The movie is said to be an emotional and sensitive revenge drama and it shows the relationship between a father and his daughter.
Somewhere Sanjay Dutt’s movie titled ‘Bhoomi’ is very much similar to the 1980’s Hindi movie which has villains, taunts a grieving and a seething father. The story of the movie ‘Bhoomi’ starts in Agra and the makers of the movie have decided to start the film with a visual of a girl getting kidnapped. Bhoomi (the role played by Aditi Rao Hydari) lives with her father Arun Sachdeva (the role played by Sanjay Dutt). Arun owes a shop of a shoe store in the city along with this Arun is famous for selling some jokes on drinks with his whiskey-buddy Taj (the role played by the Shekhar Suman) and he is a tour guide.
All is going well with these innocent people until one day they know that Arun’s daughter Bhoomi has a one-sided lover named Vishal and he is a relative of Dhauli (the role by Sharad Kelkar). Dhauli is a bad man and he is very arrogant and very unrepentant about his actions and he is a famous don of an infamous area.
Arun Sachdeva is a single parent and a simple shoemaker from the city Agra. He shares a very unique and a loving relationship with her daughter Bhoomi, an educated, independent and a working girl. Arun cooks her dinner and daily gives her a head massage. While being a lovely daughter she dyes his hair, make parathas and she also chides him on his drinking habit. However, in the movie, Sanjay Dutt is doing an age-appropriate role and he has put a lot of efforts to play this role.
They usually banter about the future and in passing mention the gender discrimination built into a prayer. But then one day their life is shattered when Bhoomi is gang-raped and Dhauli is the instigator of a gang rape that has not left Arun Sachdeva scrambling to put back the shattered pieces of his gentle family life. Now, like all other revenge drama movies, even ‘Bhoomi’ is filled with the revenge and the rest of the movie will revolve around Bhoomi and her father Arun Sachdeva. However, director Omung Kumar has presented the sequence in a very tasteful manner by keeping minimum dialogues and a montage of little events unfolding around a still-life bride.
Omung wasted a lot of time in the police station and the courtroom scenes that follow. They should have spent time in setting up a world that is a believable mix of stereotypes and into a new age thinking and after the crime, the narrative takes on the convenience of revenge drama tropes likes disinterested and insensitive cops, judgemental neighbors, a one-sided court case, societal shaming and moreover a spineless fiance.
While court scenes are highly convenient a lawyer who always puts allegations on the weaker party and the situation which is lacking both the believability and the frisson. But then Bhoomi stumbles once again owing to its dependence and she has an argument with a piercing score aimed unabashedly at evoking tears and there are a lot of ringing eardrums. The movie has an enough violence to make you feel uncomfortable and look away.
However, there are certain scenes in the movie which have been designed with interesting elements like instance crime scene and the early moments between his father and a lovely daughter, but both the design and the drama are printed boldly in the movie and there is no escaping either and there is no subtlety in their delivery.
The movie is said to based on the true events and the movie carries a lot of messages, which have been announced by the characters like headlines on the news channel like we should all respect women, there should be no gender discrimination, there should be a gender equality, the prevalence of prejudices and double standard. Moreover, you will also a see an item number by Sunny Leone, performing some strange tribal choreography.
Aditi Rao Hydari has played the victim role well however her character lacks the fight back. However, Bhoomi is a better filmed and it is better than the old revenge drama movie. Moreover, the movie has a legendary actor Sanjay Dutt showing up his own wrinkles and he has its own stories to tell. However, Sanjay Dutt’s performance in the movie is fabulous and when you’ll see him vengeful you can actually see the pain in his eyes.