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Road (2002)

Road poster
Directed by
Rajat Mukherjee
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An eloped couple drives on a deserted highway. They encounter strangers including a serial killer and a peculiar truck driver.

tenseunsettlingdarkly comicsuspensefulchaoticgrittyhighway-noirpsychologically intense

What happens

Road is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language road comedy thriller film directed by Rajat Mukherjee and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film stars Vivek Oberoi, Antara Mali, and Manoj Bajpayee. An eloped couple Arvind (Vivek Oberoi) and Lakshmi (Antara Mali), en-route to Jodhpur from Delhi on a deserted highway, encounter a mad wayfarer (Vijay Raaz), a hitchhiker Babu (Manoj Bajpayee) who turns out to be a serial psychopathic killer, Inderpal (Makrand Deshpande), a happy-go-lucky, intelligent, and responsible truck driver, and an irresponsible, eccentric cop (Sayaji Shinde). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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