N.H 10 (2015)

N.H 10 (2015)

After her desert date goes wrong, a woman manages to not just stick it out but indeed give it back.

Director: Navdeep Singh
Writer: Sudip Sharma
Stars: Anushka Sharma, Ravi Beniwal, Siddharth Bharadwaj.

Storyline

Meera and Arjun are professionals living in Gurgaon. When Meera walks out of a party late one night, she gets attacked by a group of unknown men. Although she escapes through the skin of her teeth, it leaves her traumatized. Arjun, partly blaming himself for not being there that night, tries to make up for it by treating Meera to a luxurious desert holiday. As they stop on a Highway Dhaba for dinner, they witness a young girl being picked up by a bunch of hoodlums. Arjun chooses to step in, unmindful of the danger ahead.

Details
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Release Date: 13 March 2015 (India)

Technical Specs

Runtime: 115 min
Sound Mix: Auro 11.1
Color: Color

User Reviews

 This is one of those movies that I honestly wanted to like. Unfortunately it turns out to be an extremely poor attempt at replicating one of those many Hollywood chase-thrillers. Kudos to Anushka though for backing something different.

The thing about this type of genre is that if you are going to make a movie it is better to stick to the tried and tested formula which is, creepy locations, creepy music, average actors, lot of gore, lot of violence, revenge and some nudity. The fact that NH10 is a half hearted attempt at the genre makes it pretty much unwatchable. The success of movies like Gangs of Wasseypur is evidence enough that there is a market for mature content. If you make a good movie then mature audience will come. They will leave their kids at home and come but they will come.

One of the biggest let-downs of the movie is the extremely poor directing. I am not someone with the pedigree to judge directing but even I could just look at the movie and say.......God that is just bad directing. Its like someone made a lot of fragments and stuck them together in a haphazard manner. What makes movies like Jeepers Creepers, The Hills have Eyes, Wrong Turn interesting is that you will find it riveting if you like that particular type of genre. NH10 is so poorly directed that at no stage do you really get into it. A lot of the locations look like stages.

NH10 is supposed to be inspired from Eden Lake. Lets be honest, Eden Lake itself is not a great movie. When it came out I don't think anyone bothered to watch it. Then Fassbender became a cult actor of sorts and a lot of people watched Eden Lake just to figure out if Fassbender always had brilliance written all over him. In case you are not aware Fassbender has very little screen time in Eden Lake. Its all about the female lead and the main villain who has since gone on to star in movies like Unbroken.

What makes this particular type of genre appealing is that at some stage the victim, repeatedly pushed against the wall , decides to fight back. In Eden Lake there is no fight back. Fassbender and the girl run for all of 90 minutes and then surrender without a fight. Fortunately in NH10 at some stage Anuskha says..........Screw it........I am going to fight back. So there are some sequences in the movie which are quite watchable. There is one scene near the end when Anushka picks up a kid and threatens to throw him in a well. For the movie to have been any good every scene should have been elevated to that level.

The acting is nothing to write home either. The best actor in the cast is probably Deepti Naval in her blink and you will miss it role. Anushka Sharma is not a bad actor but she is not in the same league as the Richa Chadda's and the Divya Dutta's. I don't think she was the best fit for the movie. Some of Anushka's scenes were laughably bad. The scene when she decides to fight back near the end and then tries to laugh and cry at the same time. God...... that was bad acting.

A better director, better actors, better storyline, more gore, more satisfying revenge and it could have been really good.

The violence is too mellowed down for the genre and there are far too many plot holes even for a Bollywood movie.

It kind of reminds you of Bollywoods first attempt at Zombie-Comedy, Go Goa Gone. Good attempt but fails miserably short of the mark.