‘Sector 36’ review: The serial killer hogs the show in slickly packaged sordid thriller
Aditya Nimbalkar’s movie, based on the Nithari murders, is out on Netflix.
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As a barely disguised dramatisation of a gory crime, Sector 36 doesn’t disappoint. Brutalised bodies, scattered guts, trails of bloods – Aditya Nimbalkar’s movie based on the Nithari serial murders of 2006 is designed to shock.
The Hindi-language Sector 36 arrives on Netflix after the acquittal of Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli in the killing of mostly children in the Noida exurb in 2006. In 2023, the Allahabad High Court ruled that Pandher and his domestic worker Koli had been sentenced to death because of a botched investigation and circumstantial evidence.
Sector 36 wants to address this anticlimactic end to a sensational case that involved unproven allegations of cannibalism, child pornography and organ trade. Bodhayan Roychoudhary’s screenplay has no doubt whatsoever about who is responsible for eviscerating young children and why they get away.
“No matter how hard a cockroach tries, the shoe always wins,” a line of dialogue declares.
Sector 36 opens on a creepy tone that is sustained over the 124-minute runtime. Prem (Vikrant Massey) is lounging on his master’s sofa in his master’s dressing gown, watching his favourite game show. Prem soon gets busy doing the work that gives him lip-smacking pleasure.
Although children are disappearing all over the neighbourhood, the police don’t give a toss. Sub-inspector Ram Charan (Deepak Dobriyal) is so callous...
