Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas

Name: Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas
Director: Akshay Shere
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2025-10-17
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Jitendra Kumar

Directed by Akshay Shere

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127 min 17 Oct 2025

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Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas

Inspector Bhagwat gets transferred to a small town in UP, where he takes up the case of a missing girl. Meanwhile, Sameer is in love with Meera and plans to elope. How do their lives intersect?

Director: Akshay Shere
Release: 17 Oct 2025
Run time: 127 min
Language: Hindi

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Across 2 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas, reception is mixed.

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Best forViewers looking for thriller and crime in Hindi cinema.

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Filmfare

There are important themes, caste, communalism, police brutality, but the film only glances at them before retreating into genre tropes.

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The 127-minute Hindi thriller eventually loses momentum, with only a few performances to savour.

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Release date: 17 Oct 2025
Run time: 127 min
Language: Hindi
Country: IN
Director: Akshay Shere

Trivia

The film's narrative has drawn comparisons to the Cyanide Mohan case.
The story begins in Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh, in October 2009, with the disappearance of a young woman named Poonam Mishra.

Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas

Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas

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