BHAKSHAK is an investigative thriller. The year is 2018. Vaishali Singh (Bhumi Pednekar) is a journalist who resides in Patna with her husband Arvind (Surya Sharma). She and Bhaskar Sinha (Sanjay Mishra) run a small-time news channel called Koshish News. One day, an informer, Gupta (Durgesh Kumar), hands her a… social audit report that states that the condition of the girls’ shelter home at Munawwarpur, Bihar is deplorable. It also states that the orphan girls have been physically abused in this home. The report was delivered to the government two months ago and yet, they haven’t taken any action or initiated an inquiry. Vaishali and Bhaskar head to Munawwarpur and realize that the shelter home is run by the powerful politician, Bansi Sahu (Aditya Srivastava). Vaishali even meets the Child Welfare Committee official, Mithilesh (Chittaranjan Tripathy) who feigns ignorance. Meanwhile, Bansi learns that Vaishali is trying to investigate his shelter home. He calls Arvind and warns him of dire consequences if she doesn’t stop. Despite knowing the risks, Vaishali plays the news on her channel. She visits shelter homes in Patna and other towns of Bihar to get some leads. But none of the shelter homes had any young girls who had previously stayed at the Munawwarpur shelter home. Finally, she meets a prime witness. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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