Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s super-focused ‘Kill’ is a gleeful treat for lovers of gory action thrillers

The actors are Lakshya, Tanya Maniktala, Raghav Juyal. Some minor tonality issues apart, the film is solid adult entertainment.

Ever since the Hindi film industry started bringing in action choreographers from Hollywood and South Korea, the standard for stunts has gotten increasingly better. It also helps that a good part of the budget is being set aside for these set pieces. But even by those standards, Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s Kill stands apart. For one, it is a pure, super-focused genre thriller, set in a train. But this is not The Burning Train, brave attempt though that was in 1980. That was a thali-meal masala movie, with a bit of this, a bit of that, hoping to have something for everyone. It had a whole bunch of top-rung stars, a love story, one of RD Burman’s best qawwali-s, a woman in labour, a schoolteacher and her students, a smuggler… Kill has many characters, too, but it zooms in on the smuggling angle alone. A bunch of dacoits board the train, and the good guys have to battle it out.

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