'NH10'- Dramatic Telling Of An Urban Fable


Film: "NH10"; Cast: Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumaar, Deepti Naval; Director: Navdeep Singh; Rating: ****
When was the last time you were scared, really scared, while watching a film? Forget the creaky gates, flapping windows and banshee wails of the so-called horror movies which are manufactured with assembly-line monotony. The real horror resides on the roads and highways where marauders and prowlers lurk with all the evil force of modern-day servants of satan in search of prey.
As a road thriller about a couple waylaid by criminals on a bleak stretch of highway outside Gurgaon, NH10 holds a great amount of riveting resonance. As a thriller that tears into the monstrous gender inequalities that engender gruesome crimes such a 'honour killing', NH10 puts forward an even stronger case.
This is the beauty of this dark and passionate film. It works on a multiple level without evoking a selfconscious attitude of moral altitude. At the outset we see the well-to-do couple Meera (Anushka) and Arjun (Neil) take off on a celebratory weekend. It is Meera's birthday and boy, what a birthday it's going to be for her! By the time her car-wreck of a holiday stutters to a heaving sadistic halt Meera has lost her husband and has mowed down a slew of bigoted sociopaths.
The night ironically ends when Meera's revenge is complete. By the time you get even with your enemies, the act of vendetta loses its relevance. That's the way life is. That's the way life teaches us to exercise self-control. Turning a blind eye is one option of survival that Neil's character refuses to exercise. He looks for trouble. He can't turn away.

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Source: IANS