‘Sector 36’ Review: Vikrant Massey’s acting shivers your soul, Deepak has also raised the bar

The murder case that took place in Nithari village of Noida in 2006 shook the entire country. In this case, skeletons of about two dozen children were recovered from the drain behind a bungalow in Sector 31 of Noida. Many parts of human bones were found buried in the ground. The owner of the bungalow Moninder Singh Pandher and his/her servant Surendra Koli were the accused in the case. Surendra Koli had raped the children and had also confessed to killing them mercilessly. Both were then sentenced to death, while last year both were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Now the film ‘Sector 36’ brings back the horrifying memories of this horrifying incident. Although the makers are saying that the film is inspired by many true incidents, in reality it opens up many layers of the Nithari case.

Story of ‘Sector 36’ movie

The story of the film ‘Sector 36’ begins in a bungalow where Prem Singh (Vikrant Massey) is lying on the sofa watching a show on TV called ‘Make a Millionaire’. When the show ends, he/she gets up, cleans the bones on his/her plate and goes upstairs to his/her room where he/she brutally kills a school girl who is already tied up. This first scene itself sends chills down your spine.

Further we come to know that children are continuously disappearing from the colony near the Kothi. Their parents are continuously coming to the police station in-charge Inspector Ram Charan Pandey (Deepak Dobriyal) to lodge a complaint, but Pandey ji feels that the children of this poor colony are not disappearing, but running away on their own. Until one evening his/her own daughter comes on the verge of being kidnapped. Then Ram Charan Pandey’s conscience awakens and many shocking revelations come out one after the other regarding this murder.

Trailer of ‘Sector 36’

‘Sector 36’ movie review

Director Aditya Nimbalkar has chosen a sensitive and sensational subject in his/her first film, which he/she has been successful in presenting seriously on screen. Aditya has also very well portrayed the aspects like the mindset of the psychopath who commits such crimes, the gap between the rich and the poor, the flaws of the system. There is a very effective metaphor in the film that how the police, which finds the son of a rich businessman in two days, remains deaf to the disappearances of poor children for two years.

Artistically, many scenes in the film are very rich. The good thing is that despite citing a childhood trauma as the reason, he/she does not try to create sympathy for the accused.

Talking about acting, after ’12th Fail’, Vikrant Massey raises the bar of his/her acting as a psychopath like Prem. On the other hand, Deepak Dobriyal shows with his/her acting range that the industry is doing itself harm by limiting him/her to comic characters like Pappi Ji. There is a scene during the police investigation, where Vikrant brings out the madness of Prem in such a way that every emotion within you dies and this emptiness is visible on the face of Deepak Dobriyal’s character.

The film’s technical aspects like production value, editing, background score are also strong. Its only drawback is the excess of violence. This film is not for the faint hearted.

Why watch- If you are fond of watching crime dramas, then you can watch this film which shows criminal psychology.