NH10 (2015) DVDRip (Hindi Movie)

Release date: 06 March 2015

Writers: Sudip Sharma

Director: Navdeep Singh

Language: Hindi

Subtitles: English

Movie Name : NH10

Detected quality: DVDRip

IMDb link: 3742284

IMDb rating: 7.4 

Genre: Thriller

File Size : 709.75 MB

IDMb Link- 3742284

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Cast:-
Anushka Sharma as Meera
Neil Bhoopalam as Arjun
Darshan Kumaar as Satbir
Deepti Naval as Ammaji

Tanya Purohit Dobhal as Satbir's wife

Plot:-

The film starts with couple Meera (Anushka Sharma) and Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) going to a party, where Meera gets an urgent work call from office. On the way she is attacked by some street punks who smash her car's window. Meera manages to escape but is shaken up by the incident. Meanwhile, Arjun suggests a road trip for Meera's upcoming birthday. The couple heads out the next day. They learn from an attendant in Toll plaza on NH-10 that there was another attendant murdered last night. Though reluctant, they continue their journey. While stopping at a roadside Dhaba for lunch, a petrified young girl arrives and pleads for help, saying few men outside are about to kill her. Meera shakes her off. As they wait, they see a gang of men round up the same girl and a boy, beat them savagely and drag them to a SUV. Arjun intervenes but Satbir (Darshan Kumar), the gang leader pushes him, saying that the girl is his sister. As the horrified couple watches, the gang drives off. Despite Meera's pleading, Arjun drives after the gang. He stops the car near the gang's vehicle on a deserted area near the highway. There the couple witness a brutal Honor killing of a young boy and the girl Pinky (Kanchan Sharma). Terrified Arjun and Meera attempt to flee but the gang finds them and knocks out Arjun with a rod. As the gang digs graves, Satbir shoots Pinky, his sister. Meanwhile a fight ensues and Arjun shoots Chotte, one of the gang member. The gang is enraged and the couple runs for their lives.

At night, the couple suddenly faces one of the gang members. Meera shoots him dead and Arjun gets injured. They make it to a railway bridge where Meera tells Arjun to wait till she gets help. She finds a police station where she asks a police man to help as they have witnessed an Honour killing – at the mention of that word, the cop throws Meera out of the police station. On the way, a senior police officer meets her in his van and starts driving back to where Arjun is. He tells her that Indian democracy and law ends at the last mall of Gurgaon and breaking medieval caste rules is totally forbidden in the village. Meera realises that the police officer is with her attackers. She manages to stab him and drives off, with the gang chasing her. Meera's jeep flips over by a collision. She crawls out and reaches a stone quarry. As they find her car looking, Meera stumbles off and finds a labourer's hut on the site. The labourer and his wife protect her from the gang. But they advise her to go to the Chief of nearby village.

Later Meera reaches the village and meets two children and one agrees to take her to the village Chief – his own grandmother Ammaji (Deepti Naval), to whome Meera tells her story. Ammaji's mood changes the moment she hears of the honour killing and a puzzled Meera looks around to see pillow covers saying 'Pinky'. Ammaji locks her in the room and calls the gang and tells them to silence Meera. They drag her out and beat her in the courtyard. She escapes the village and finds her yellow sweatshirt on the rear seat of their car. She rushes to the under-bridge to find Arjun has been murdered. Meera shrieks in grief and rage and returns to the village where she drives the jeep ruthlessly into two gang members, killing them.

She then waits with a rod in her hand till Satbir and Mamaji come driving on a bike, hits them, killing Mamaji on the spot and breaking Satbir's leg. But as he gets up, Meera hits him with the rod instantly killing him – and then stabs him with rage over and over again with the rod. Ammaji arrives and gasps, seeing all the men dead. She says Pinky was her own daughter but broke rules and needed to be punished. Meera echoes her words and leaves the village as dawn breaks.

Movie Review

NH 10 reeks of confused storytelling. Is it just a road film meant to deliver the thrills? Or is it addressing a larger issue – problems implicit to a patriarchal society where misogyny is a way of life? The director of NH 10 picks up a topic of relevance but fails to contextualize it.

It's about a road trip gone wrong but NH 10 is not just that – what we have here is the fallout of an incident that is steeped in chauvinism. However, the treatment is flippant.

When Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) meddles in what seems like a case of honour killing, it’s hard to commend him for his spunk. He doesn’t step in to rescue a hapless girl; all he wants to do is avenge his slighted ego. He exhibits the typical North-Indian-guy recklessness and foolhardiness that fails to prompt any empathy.

Arjun’s wife Meera (Anushka Sharma) comes across as the more sensible one and yet in the face of a crisis her reaction seems completely incomprehensible. In an emergency, one of the first things to do is to try and reach out to family and friends. It baffles me that this couple claims to know a top cop but I never see them reach out to him in the hour of need.

The real revelation is Darshan Kumar - as a guy from the Jat heartland, his portrayal is commendable. It is difficult to imagine that the same person who played the endearing supportive husband Onler Kom (in Mary Kom, 2014) can also play a ruthless chauvinist in NH 10.

Navdeep Singh exposes the inherent sexism of the Jatland; you squirm in your seat as you watch how brutally and unflinching a family is ready to kill for ‘honour’; you get a glimpse into how young boys see their mothers being subject to oppression from childhood and how that becomes intrinsic to their being, you also see how integral women are in perpetuating this puritan mindset. And yet, somehow the issues seem superficial, incapable of evoking genuine sympathy and concern.

The last scene in which Meera sits and smokes a cigarette before her final strike just seems too pretentious – as if Anushka Sharma is crying out – look how cool I am. When you have gone through the kind of ordeal that she had, I would think the first thing on her mind would be head to safety or at least, look for a quick closure. Prolonging it just doesn’t seem to work.

Watching NH 10, given the complexity of the story and the way it played out, seems an exercise in futility. The film makes for a frustrating watch, more so because it is such a squandered opportunity.