Do you love watching thrillers and sometime grapple over if they are based on true events? One of recent movies which is based on reality is Arshad Warsi starrer Bhagwad Chapter 1: Rakshas. 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 setting of Bhagwat Chapter 1: Raakshas, which stars Arshad Warsi and Jitendra Kumar in the key characters, is reminiscent of small-town India. Then something changes. A group of young ladies start to disappear. And additional women went missing as a result of those women's trail. Apparently, it was all the work of one individual. The narrative doesn't jump out. How evil may go unnoticed for so long and how it can conceal itself beneath charm and smiles seems to be a fascination of the Bhagwat Chapter 1: Raakshas film.
Who was Cyanide Mohan?
His real name was Mohan Kumar, and he targeted young ladies who were particularly at risk. 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.
The movie cast features Arshad Warsi (last seen in Jolly LLB 3) and Jitendra Kumar in lead roles. Kumar plays the role of the villain, the Cyanide Mohan equivalent. The original true story of Bhagwat – Chapter 1: Raakshas cast has been moved from Karnataka to Uttar Pradesh. Ayesha Kaduskar, Tara-Alisha Berry, Hemant Saini, among others also star.