'NH10'- Dramatic Telling Of An Urban Fable

Darshan Kumaar as the blood-thirsty 'honour' killer will freeze your blood. This very talented actor has too little playing-time on screen. Neil Bhoopalam , usually such a fine actor, here behaves more like Anushka's fan-boy than Meera's husband. It's the only false note in a film rooted in chilling realism.
Director Navdeep Singh whose last and only other feature film was "Manorama 6 Feet Under", here creates a heroine who is...well, Meera 6 Feet Tall.
Chilling, nerve wracking, NH10 re-defines the thriller-horror genre. The scenes of violence with or without Anushka and Darshan Kumaar's combustive violence, display the kind of unalloyed starkness that Govind Nihalani or Dibakar Bannerjee (remember that episode on honour killing in "Love Sex and Dhokha") would approve of.
There is much to commend in this dark tale of a woman's night out with psychotic killers. Most of all, it coils its serpentine narrative around its character with such sinewy charm that your come away from the experience shaken, stirred and sobered down.
In one compassionate little scene an impoverished couple saves Meera from sure death. Such moments of kindness are rare. In the film as in real life. Hold on to them.

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