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Bhumi Pednekar: Anyone can do potboilers, not everybody can do this
Updated On: 02 February, 2024 05:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma
Feeling guilty about passing up Bhakshak initially, Bhumi on how fronting drama about child-abuse cases is her attempt at rallying for much-needed change
Bhumi Pednekar
Letting go of a film doesn’t usually leave an actor feeling guilty. But Bhumi Pednekar couldn’t get Bhakshak’s script out of her mind for almost six months after initially passing it up due to factors beyond her control. It was a clear sign that she had to headline it. “When the film came to me during the lockdown, I loved it. For some reason, things didn’t work out at that point. But from then till I started working on it, I re-read the script, and there wasn’t a day when this film didn’t haunt me. I kept feeling guilty [about passing it up],” she recalls.
Director Pulkit’s social drama is inspired by real-life cases of children’s sexual abuse at shelter homes across the country. Pednekar points out that the Netflix release is also a grim reminder of our society’s moral corruption. “This film makes us question our conscience, our lack of empathy, how we have all forgotten to feel hurt for others. It’s heartbreaking to know that three-year-olds are living a life like this. Sexual offence against children is the lowest of low that a society can stoop to. Bhakshak comments on the dirt that society has become, and we all are a part of it in varying degrees.”
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