Accident On Hill Road

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An accident occurs late at night. The driver is a young woman who can’t keep her eyes open because of the drugs she has ingested just before she got behind the wheel. The victim is a middle-aged man who’s just lost his wife. She goes slam bang into him; he crashes through the windscreen,stuck half-in,half-out.

The careless driver is played by Celina Jaitley. Her mundane job at an old age home is about to end with a dream foreign job,and she doesn’t want anything to jeopardize her visa interview: so what if a man is pleading for his life? Instead of driving him to a hospital,or getting him aid,she gives him two hard thwacks at frequent intervals. She is callous enough to wish death upon the wounded man,so she can get what her heart desires. Ugh.

Abhimanyu Singh plays her equally dislikeable drug dealer boy-friend,who is happy to help her in any way he can,not least because she is not above blackmailing him. He comes out to her garage where her car is stashed,and both look at the poor half-dead guy (Farooq Shaikh) with not an ounce of empathy. Forget sympathy. Double ugh.

shubhra.gupta@expressindia.com