In Bhagwat Chapter One: Raakshas, Arshad Warsi portrays the role of Inspector Vishwas Bhagwat, who is a seasoned but emotionally volatile police officer. The film gets its plot from the chilling case of one Cyanide Mohan. He was a criminal whose actions created a lot of flutter in Karnataka in the early 2000s.
The film explores Bhagwat's inner turmoil and the ethical dilemmas he faces while pursuing justice against a cunning psychopath.
Does Arshad Warsi plays a real life inspector?
While Arshad Warsi does not play a real life police officer, his role is almost similar to the inspector who led to Mohan Kumar (the real life serial killer’s) arrest. He is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young woman named Poonam. During his investigation, Inspector Bhagwat uncovers a much larger and more sinister criminal enterprise involving the disappearance of 19 other girls. He soon finds himself in a tense turmoil with a mild-mannered professor named Sameer, who is secretly the serial killer.
Who is Real life Serial Killer?
Mohan, a former Karnataka schoolteacher, looked like any other middle-class guy. He was polite, pious, and apparently reliable. His public persona was that of a devout, orderly man who blended in perfectly with the small-town routine. Behind the mask, however, he carried out a string of heinous and well-planned atrocities that would torment investigators for years to come. Mohan targeted vulnerable women from 2003 to 2009. Typically, they were members of traditional families looking for marriage alliances, widows, or divorcees. Prior to their marriage, he would accompany them to temples or lodges to perform religious ceremonies after building rapport and gaining their trust. He would give them a "contraceptive pill" to swallow there. However, that wasn't a pill for contraception. The pill was cyanide.
What happened to Mohan?
The breakthrough came in 2009 with the disappearance of 22-year-old Anitha. Tracking her phone contacts led police to Mohan Kumar. Arrested on 21 October, 2009, he was soon linked to 17 other missing women, eventually confirmed as the killer in at least 20 cases. He was sentenced to death in 2013 for Anitha’s murder, later commuted to life imprisonment, and in 2020, convicted for his 20th murder involving a 25-year-old woman from Kasaragod