NH 10
Starring: Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumaar
Rated: 5.5/10
One needs to understand a few things before one goes to watch this violent movie. Violent not just in the way the killings happen but brutal in the way it plays out. So, if your are the kind of person who doesn’t subscribe to the archaic thinking or that some things need to be taken care of irrespective of the consequences, then NH 10 is a road not to be traveled at all.
However, if one wants to get spooked and never want to be on the road in Gurgaon at night or learn a lesson, the hard way, to mind your own business, this film may be perfect one to go and see. It is perhaps the kind of movie that men should watch who let ego get into their way while they are driving.
So the question is why would Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) want to willingly enter the danger zoneIJ It boggles the mind so much so that in the end you ask yourself — whether all the blood, gore and violence was worth it considering that many people died because our hero could not let go.
But what works here is the taut script that keeps you on the edge all through. Director Navdeep Singh and writer Sudip Sharma have kept the thrill quotient till the very end. The story is a gut-wrenching reality of what our society has become today and a woman fighting to find a place for herself in a male dominated world. The movie is a mirror to everything that our urban and rural life has to offer and the point where the two clash.
As for the performances, Anushka Sharma, who was labelled as the bubbly actress, will no longer be tagged as such. Fighting, for not just her life, she yells, screams, is drenched in blood and to take revenge is willing to kill that too with an iron rod. The point where she stares right into the eyes of her opponent refusing to bow down, definitely a point in favour of girl power. In a movie which is all about men domination, she stands tall. Probably would have been appropriate if the producers would have thought of releasing this movie on Women’s Day.
Bhoopalam on his part does what he is told to do. But it is Darshan Kumaar, who was seen in Mary Kom, who has given a great performance. As a Haryanavi, he is the kind of person your mother warned to stay away from. Unlike Onler where he was gentle and supportive, as Satbir, in NH 10, he is frightening not because he is a criminal but because he is an ordinary man who is willing to kill his sister in cold blood all in the name of honour.
But the real chill factor comes from Deepti Naval, the mother who is willing to kill her daughter because it had to be done. Over all, a movie that is not for the weak-hearted.