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Monday, May 20, 2024
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BOLLYWOOD ACCIDENT ON HILL ROAD
EDITOR'S PICK
There`s a man stuck on your windscreen! That`s what you want to scream to Celina
Jaitley. But gosh, she does so much of that screaming herself that you don`t
really want to add to the din in this gory tale that takes place at night.
Celina oozes oomph and is the backbone of this `being bad is good` upturned
morality tale. After having knocked down a poor pedestrian (Farooque Shaikh),
who spends the rest of the movie stuck to the windshield, the nurse frantically
tries to find ways to get rid of the writhing man.
Agony is the film`s main ecstasy. This genre of horror cinema revels in creating
acute discomfort and gruesome circumstances for the characters to a point where
the audience is actually supposed to enjoy the ceaseless chill spill.
"Accident On Hill Road" is road rage in all its gory splendour,
committed to creating a string of incidents that suggest a vicarious mayhem.
Debutant direct Mahesh Nair lets loose a binge of blood and gore.
This is Celina`s first real opportunity to sink her teeth into an author-backed
role. And she does get into her meaty role...
Then meet her boyfriend - a drug peddler called Sid, playing with menacing
aggressiveness by Abhimanyu Singh. What happened to all the noble evil-warring
heroes of our films? Sid is so immoral he makes Mogambo look like a cartoon
hero.
Apparently adapted from Hollywood horror flick "Stuck", "Accident
On Hill Road" leaves you shaken by its gore-quotient... But not quite
stirred.
The original Hollywood film probably describes not just the physical state of
the accident victim but also the psychological condition of the audience.
This accident could have been avoided. Since it has has occurred and with
screeching tyres, it might as well be borne.
Mahesh Nair says his directorial debut "Accident On Hill Road" is not based on actor Salman Khan's infamous hit-and-run but admits that the film refers to it. Read More
Accident On Hill Road’ is a cunning and energetic thriller that takes its premise from the real-life incident of a women who hit a man, then drove home and parked the car in the garage – with the man wedged halfway through her windshield. Celina Jaitley stars as sonam chopra, a hard partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Mahesh Nair.
Sonam accidentally steers her car into the harmless Prakash Shrivastava, movingly played by Farooque Shaikh, sending him flying through the windshield. Not wanting to jeoparadize her future, Sonam, along with her drug-pending boyfriend Sid (Abhimanyu Singh), chooses not to get him medical help, leaving him clinging to life in her garage. But soon her psyche begins to unravel as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a bloody and outrageous battle for survival. Be prepared for ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny entertainment.
