'NH10'- Dramatic Telling Of An Urban Fable

The film triumphs on every level, beginning with the script by Sudip Sharma which portrays both the gleaming glory and the gory side of Gurgaon in one deft and lucid range of vision. The film is so authentically shot by cinematographer Arvind Kannabiran that often-times we forget the locations, the people and situations are trapped in the frames of a film. The narrative has a sense of jump-out vigour and ruggedness that enthrals you and rivets you to the goings-on.
The dialogues range from the brilliantly ironic to the unmistakably authentic. When at the beginning Meera's car is attacked by two motorbike riding adventurers, the cop sighs and says, "Gurgaon is like a growing infant. It's bound to jump around."
NH10 is a relentlessly thoughtful, constantly edgy and dramatic telling of an urban fable, so real and yet so cinematic that you feast on the ferocious twists and turns wondering how Meera will ever wriggle out of her night-long nightmare.
During the film's stunning playing time when she desperately seeks help from cops and civilians and finally the slippery hard-of-hearing sarpanch of a village (Deepti Naval, in a refreshing change of image) Anushka Sharma has a 'wail' of time sinking her teeth into a part that gives her a chance to play the hero without losing her femininity. She is in walloping good shape here specially in her outburst scenes when she climbs a rocky mountain to escape her tormentors, or her scream of bloodcurdling protest after her husband's death.

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