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Played with terrifying menace by Aditya Srivastav, Bansi Sahu is not a caricatured villain. He is a businessman who treats his crimes as an industry. He is powerful not because he is a martial expert, but because he owns the ecosystem—the police, the local politicians, and the bureaucracy. He represents the "Devourer" of the title, consuming the innocence of the girls for profit and power.

Bhakshak is a gripping investigative drama directed by Pulkit and produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under Red Chillies Entertainment. Loosely inspired by the real-life 2018 Muzaffarpur shelter case, the film follows a tenacious journalist who uncovers the systematic sexual abuse of minor girls in a state-run shelter home in Bihar. It premiered directly on Netflix on February 9, 2024. Bhakshak

The film serves as a powerful feminist critique, exposing the misogynistic prejudices a female journalist faces both in her personal life and within the male-dominated media industry as she reports on crimes of sexual violence. It questions our own complicity as a society: do we read headlines about such atrocities, feel a momentary pang of anger or sorrow, and simply move on? As an OTTplay review put it, the film is “not trying to be different but can only be heard”, and it serves as a , demanding that we look within ourselves. Played with terrifying menace by Aditya Srivastav, Bansi