At the beginning, She rubs off the word 'Randi' scribbled on
the door of a Dhaba toilet, ironically, she couldn't rub off the same word
written with the battered blood of her dead husband towards the climax!
Few scenes really makes a telling impact & breaks the
stereotypes of most of the bollywood's women centric revenge sagas, like before
killing the baddie Darshan Kumar, Anushka lights a cigarette, puffs it off
leisurely while watching dispassionately as he bleed in pain; silently rises up
and hits him hard & kills him in one go with a steel rod unlike films where
women actually transform into a durga/kali re-incarnation, spurts out long
stretched out dialogues before killing the baddie!Also, we have hardly seen a
woman driving a car in a chase sequence against the goons in Indian cinema.
NH10 is a good effort but the basic premise that starts off the movie is
nothing but ubiquitous male ego, leaving a helpless woman to suffer for the
husband's sheer stupidity! The goons provoke the husband with a big tight slap!
He knows the goons are ruthless but he chases them without any planning and
that also just to threaten them with the help of gun! Abashing causes his male
ego to splutter, and what follows is a gripping chase set in a morally corrupt
northern rural India.
One particular shot that disappointed me the most is that
the entire night sequence is shot in harsh studio light which is quite
evident,as a result a shot shown in full moon loses its powerful impact on the
screen because the entire shot is captured in bright light. Most of the Critics
have referred NH10 as a movie filled with blood and gore, but haven't we
witnessed far more brutality in films with the same theme?
