Bhoomi (2017 film)

Bhoomi (transl. Earth) is a 2017 Indian action drama film directed and co-produced by Omung Kumar. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Sharad Kelkar. Principal photography commenced in February 2017 in Agra.[3] Bhoomi trailer was launched on August 10.[4] The film was released worldwide on September 22, 2017.[1]

Bhoomi
Theatrical release poster
Directed byOmung Kumar
Produced by
Screenplay byRaaj Shaandilyaa
Story bySandip Ssingh
Starring
Music bySongs:
Sachin-Jigar
Score:
Ismail Darbar
CinematographyArtur Zurawski
Edited byJayesh Shikarkhane
Production
company
Release date
  • 22 September 2017 (2017-09-22)
[1]
Running time
136 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹14.76 crores[2]

Plot

Bhoomi Sachdeva (Aditi Rao Hydari), a planner and designer, is all set to be married to Neeraj Mathur (Sidhant Gupta), her best friend, but has a problem of returning home late from work. Her father Arun Sachdeva (Sanjay Dutt) is an alcoholic shoe-maker who sells shoes, but she still loves him, as he has a knack of winning over her every time by showering a father's love. Meanwhile, preparations for Bhoomi's wedding with Neeraj come closer, but Vishal Munshi (Puru Chibber), the son of a middle-aged lady, who is deeply infatuated with Bhoomi, is not happy about it. Despite her warnings, Vishal stalks her, much to her chagrin, and she slaps him back when he tries to force-assert his love, admitting that he is only her friend. Bhoomi goes back to Neeraj, and begins preparing for her big day.

In the meantime, Vishal attends to his cousin brother Dedha where he meets the latter's boss Dhauli (Sharad Kelkar), a gangster. Dhauli chides Vishal for his cowardice and convinces him to do something about it.

One day before the wedding, however, while travelling back home with her aide Jeetu, Bhoomi gets kidnapped as Jeetu takes a small break out there in a bush. Later, as she regains consciousness, she finds Vishal asphyxiating her to near death in Bhagwan Talkies. Vishal, Dedha, and Dhauli take turns in raping Bhoomi, and she falls unconscious.

On the day of the wedding, when Neeraj tries to meet Bhoomi, he is shocked to learn of the harsh reality, and is forced against his will to walk back and cancel the marriage, following which, Arun and his childhood friend, Tripurari "Taj" Mishra (Shekhar Suman) come to know of Bhoomi's condition, and visit a local police station. Arun loses control of his temper when the officer-in-charge ignores his complaint while watching a cricket match. The police officer finally registers his complaint, and goes with him to his house, where they find Bhoomi missing. At this stage, Bhoomi is kidnapped again by Vishal, Dhauli and Dedha. This time, Dhauli throws her down a river and shoots the water so that she can't escape.

However, Dhauli soon gets a phone call from an anonymous person, from who he comes to know that Bhoomi is alive. Arun, shattered by the entire scene, tries to shower his love on Bhoomi, who is unconscious on a hospital bed. A court case happens, where Arun accuses the defense lawyer of being patriarchal in her approach and body-shaming Bhoomi, while the case is dismissed after they let go of Dhauli, who warns them he will strike again. When confronted, however, both of them break down, bringing them closer to each other. Arun and Bhoomi are shamed. Bhoomi is further shamed in the society when some people write her phone number on the walls. Neeraj returns, trying to pacify her, but she asks him if he can clean the wall and erase her number from the wall. Neeraj is overcome by remorse, but cannot pacify her. The next day, Jeetu's family members visit Bhoomi's house and say that they want to show her something. They show a video from Jeetu's phone in which Jeetu rapes Bhoomi at Bhagwan Talkies. A shocking revealation is made that Jeetu was helping Dhauli all along. Jeetu had taken a break purposefully so that Bhoomi could be kidnapped, and the anonymous caller was none other than Jeetu.

Arun and Bhoomi turn ruthless and abduct Jeetu, hiding him from everyone. Jeetu is tortured at a formidable scale. Arun then goes on a scaring spree by haunting Vishal, following him everywhere. One day, Dhauli takes a petrified Vishal to Arun, asking the former to apologize to the latter, but Arun is rather adamant and picks up a fight with Dhauli, who leaves after police intervention. On his 18th birthday, Jeetu is killed by Arun and his body is found in Bhagwan Talkies, where the police officer who had earlier registered Arun's complaint is amazed to see Jeetu's sister disclaiming responsibility and chiding herself for having been his sister. Soon, the police officer gives Arun Arun's keychain that he had been holding when the complaint had been registered, and the policeman says that one mustn't leave his belongings after the match is played. This implies that the policeman knew the truth of the murderer, but he was on Arun's side. A few days later, Dedha comes and tries to assault Bhoomi, but Taj intervenes. However, he crashes into an iron pole and dies from his injuries. Shattered by the loss of his friend, Arun decides to finish off Vishal, Dedha and Dhauli.

Vishal, scared off with Jeetu's murder, boards an intercity bus which would lead him back to Dhauli's area, but Arun and Bhoomi confront Vishal and finally force Vishal to castrate himself. Arun drives the bus, which has Bhoomi and a dead Vishal, to Dhauli's area. After a long scuffle, Dedha dies from his injuries. Dhauli tries to escape through a procession of women, but Arun and Bhoomi chase him to a temple, where Arun kills him, and he falls into a water pond out of injuries, unable to make an exit from the pond, and breathes his last as the women in the procession let go of their chunnis, along with Bhoomi's own. Bhoomi and Arun look down at the pond having succeeded in their mission.

Cast

Reception

Sukanya Verma, writing for Rediff.com, termed it "one of the worst films of the year" and blamed it for "[taking] perverse pleasure in a woman's humiliation". She opined that Dutt's character's transformation lacked seriousness and found the film to be "ghastly".[7] India Today's critic Lakshana N Palat gave the film a 1/5 rating.[8] Meena Iyer writing for Times of India wrote "Watch Bhoomi for Dutt. He’s from that era of larger-than-life heroes who get you to applaud even when he turns a killing machine. You may not approve of his bloodlust, but you can’t fault his swagger."[9]

Soundtrack
Bhoomi
Soundtrack album by
Sachin-Jigar
Released28 August 2017
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length32:23
LanguageHindi
LabelT-Series
Sachin-Jigar chronology
A Gentleman
(2017)		 Bhoomi
(2017)		 Simran
(2017)
External audio
Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The music of the film has been composed by Sachin-Jigar except where noted, while the lyrics have been penned by Priya Saraiya, Vayu, Anvita Dutt Guptan, Badshah and Utkarsh Naithani and the score is composed by Ismail Darbar. The first song of the film, "Trippy Trippy", which is sung by Neha Kakkar, Benny Dayal, Brijesh Shandilya and Badshah, was released on 18 August 2017. The second song "Lag Ja Gale" which is sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was released on 23 August 2017. The soundtrack was released by T-Series on 28 August 2017 and includes 8 songs.

All music is composed by Sachin-Jigar.

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Trippy Trippy"Priya Saraiya, Rap lyrics by BadshahNeha Kakkar, Benny Dayal, Brijesh Shandilya, Badshah3:34
2."Lag Ja Gale"Priya SaraiyaRahat Fateh Ali Khan3:46
3."Kho Diya"Priya SaraiyaSachin Sanghvi4:01
4."Will You Marry Me"Anvita DuttDivya Kumar, Jonita Gandhi3:54
5."Daag"Priya SaraiyaSukhwinder Singh4:18
6."Jai Mata Di"Vayu, Utkarsh NaithaniSanjay Dutt, Ajay Gogavale4:08
7."Mere Baad" (Music by: Sachet-Parampara)Sachet-ParamparaPayal Dev4:33
8."Lag Ja Gale" (Duet)Priya SaraiyaRahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shruti Pathak4:09
Total length:32:23
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References
  1. "Finally! Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film Bhoomi release date out". www.filmfare.com. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. Hungama, Bollywood (23 September 2017). "Box Office: Worldwide collections and day wise break up of Bhoomi - Bollywood Hungama".
  3. "Ranbir Kapoor cheers for Sanjay Dutt at 'Bhoomi' trailer launch - 'Bhoomi': When the Sanjay Dutt film made headlines". The Times of India.
  4. "Sanjay Dutt begins shooting for 'Bhoomi' in Agra - Times of India".
  5. "Sidhant Gupta paired opposite Aditi Rao Hydari in Bhoomi". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  6. "Sakshi Dwivedi: Movies, Photos, Videos, News, Biography & Birthday | eTimes". timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
  7. Verma, Sukanya (22 September 2017). "Bhoomi Review: Sanjay Dutt makes comeback in one of the worst films of the year!". Rediff.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  8. Palat, Lakshana N (22 September 2017). "Bhoomi Movie Review: Sanjay Dutt's comeback is a tragic and botched attempt at feminism". India Today. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  9. "Bhoomi Movie Review {3/5}: Watch Bhoomi for Dutt. He's from that era of larger-than-life heroes who get you to whistle even when he is killing people" – via timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
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