Accident On Hill Road

Film: Accident on Hill Road 

Cast: Farooque Shaikh, Abhimanyu Singh, Celina Jaitley 

Genre: Thriller 

Direction: Mahesh Nair
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

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Story: Celina Jaitley hits pedestrian Farooque Shaikh on Hill Road and runs...She parks the car in her garage, with the still breathing victim wedged in the windshield and unleashes a cat and mouse game that heads towards a bloody climax. 

Movie Review: The film is based on a real-life incident and features Abhimanyu Singh. Remember the actor who walked away with your applause as the student leader in Anurag Kashyap's maverick movie Gulal? More importantly, the film provides a role of a lifetime to Celina Jaitley as the nurse who seems to lose all her humaneness in a freak situation. And if that's not enough, it marks another return of the talented Farooque Shaikh to mainstream cinema after the disastrous Saas Bahu aur Sensex.

Sadly, nothing seems to work in its favour. Abhimanyu Singh's drug peddlar act is too minuscule and poorly-crafted to actually make a difference. Farooque Shaikh as the hit-and-run victim spends too many awkward moments lying upside down on screen. And Celina Jaitley simply screams her lungs out or feverishly gulps down whiskey, vodka or what-you-will to display her fear, anger and desperation as the woman who might lose everything -- her future in London, her life with boyfriend Singh -- after some binge drinking.

All set for an interview with the Red Cross, Celina spends the evening partying with friends. But too much Ecstasy and alcohol send her into a tizzy and embroil her in an accident on her way back home. Instead of abiding by the law, the woman panics and drives off into her garage, with the victim (Farooque Shaikh) dangling and desperately begging for help. She tries to wrap up the sordid story with the help of her boyfriend, Abhimanyu Singh, who keeps popping some more pills into her. Naturally, the out-of-focus twosome can hardly control events which completely go out of hand. As does the film...