Sector 36 Movie Review
Sector 36 is that rare theme-blending Netflix-ified drama that goes beyond the gore of a brutal serial killings and offers us nuanced insights as monologues and commentary about the class hierarchies of India.
Sector 36 Stars Vikrant Massey playing Prem Singh, the real life serial killer who did a serial murder in Noida’s Sector 39 in 2005 and le Deepak Dobriyal as a Ram Singh Pandey– an usual cop with a slight predictable arc who doesn’t care about the justice for lost children and a woman until the problem touches his daughter.
Into the Deeds
The police interrogation of Prem Singh with Ram Singh Pandey alongside newly appointed DGP played by Baharul Islam, is the major highlight of the film. Especially for its attempt to creepy-ify the audience by the sheer honesty of Prem. This high moment needs to be experienced before I spill the beans.
Vikrant Massey’s performance in Sector 36 is not loud on a psycho barometer. At the same time, it is not very ‘subtle’ indicating the supposed dual-life. He is leading a dual life of a poor servant wanting to be rich and also a human-eating cannibal traumatised by sexual assault in his childhood. Yet, the dynamics of dual-life is not shown as neurotic. You hardly see any radical change in his behaviour. He is real. He is sort of innocent, spoiled by irreversible trauma.
The Class Hierarchy
The issue of class hierarchy as a motivation of every character was established right upfront by the debutant-writer Bodhayan Roychaudhury. This, I must say, was a brilliant choice of the filmmakers that elevates the characters to a different understanding altogether.
Whenever we see a serial killer in the cinema, what we often see is the cold-blooded murderings and how the serial killer happily ever lives as if nothing had happened, playing a dual-life essentially. In Sector 36, we get to see what Prem Singh thinks aloud when no one is watching him. We see the real version of him in his most intimate moment with Sector 36’s version of KCB (Kaun Banega Crorepati)– the middle class’s aspiratory ever-waiting luck factor that almost never knocks the normal lower middle class family.
The guarding force of Prem Singhs’s crimes is the Bassi’s huge building that stands contrasting the economic divide fromRajiv Camp. Prem Singh did all the crimes he did because he had the access to do the crimes and the Bassi’s name plate as protective force until one day a cop whose consciousness awakened as a personal revenge manifesting at professional level. Ram Singh Pandey’s reasons for his late awaken-ness is also the disbeliefs he regards about the hierarchies of power. He crunches the cockroach with his police boots. That imagery is not just about cockroaches. You exactly know what it represents, and it becomes clear when it is crunched at the same spot, but by a different cop.
Sector 36 is a rare film that surely surprises you with the phenomenal performance of Vikrant Massey as Prem and spine-chilling dark drama.
Rating : 4/5
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