For action-movie purists, writer-director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s Kill needs no translation. Bite your tongue, and keep your kicks high
A film that answers the likely unasked-till-now-but-still-important question of what would happen if John Wick boarded the train inPushing the limits of Bollywood’s typically conservative tolerance for blood and guts, writer-director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s feature is built on a number of sly narrative and stylistic tricks that gradually cement its status as aThe film opens with a strain of chaste romantic melodrama that might be more familiar to fans of co-star Tanya Maniktala, here playing a...
Without spoiling the details of this twist, the delayed moment of narrative and aesthetic acceleration is also when the director finally drops the film’s title card on-screen, resulting in one of the best late-movie “opening” credit moments sinceFinding inventively lethal uses for everything from curtains to fire extinguishers, Amrit is a one-man killing machine who might even scare off Mr. Wick, and Lakshya conjures the hero with frightening ferocity.
Inspired by the real-life phenomenon of Indian train robbers dubbed “dacoits,” Bhat’s film ingeniously amps up the stakes by having all the goons be members of the same extended family. When one is dispatched, the other is driven to furious action to avenge his fallen uncle, cousin or brother. And as the body count rises on both sides, the film toys with the concept of just what “family honour” means to different clans and classes.’s own director Chad Stahelski.
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