THE North Indian cinema brings out yet another one of its disturbing thrillers rooted in a real criminal case. Kill was a brutal growth spurt in Indian action filmmaking and now Netflix’s Sector 36 is aiming for the jugular of eminent crime and psychological thrillers such as Silence of the Lambs and Seven.
Bold in its macabre storytelling involving children and women, with an unflinching portrayal of the historically documented ineptitude of the Indian police force, Sector 36 is not for those with a weak stomach.
Based on the violent child murders that took place in Uttar Pradesh, India in 2006, the film sees corrupt sub-inspector Ram Charan Pandey (Deepak Dobriyal) slowly come to his senses after his daughter is nearly abducted by a stranger.
Realising there is a pattern to the missing children from Sector 36, an immigrant slum housing area, to a missing young adult woman and his daughter’s near-abduction, Ram begins investigating the politically-connected businessman Balbir Singh Bassi (Akash Khurana) and his servant Prem Singh (Vikrant Massey).
