Aggressive Landforms: Sexuality, Rage And Violence In NH10 (2015)

Abstract

Geographical landscapes have affect on psychological structure of human beings. As presumed to be, rage and violence are perceived as masculine trait in North Indian context. NH 10 (2015) is a film based on deconstructing this trait and portrayed as both masculine and feminine characteristics. Background landforms of dry, arid, hot of Haryana seem to capture perfectly with the protagonist, Meera, played by Anushka Sharma. She deciphers the geographical spaces much aggressively than the other male characters in the film. It sounds almost like the feminine sexuality is no longer being timid or docile in nature. As an urban, independent, upper middle class female of Gurgaon, Meera questions the traditions of human characteristics as par with social and temporal space she confronts in the film. NH 10 opens up many questions of how ecology and environment has imbibed cultures and conventions. Although only few frames of artificial waterscapes try to circumvent the arid and dry landscapes, but fails to do so and directly correlates dry to aggression, arid to rage and violence. Meera and her male counterparts portray a marvellous example of landscaping psychology of human beings. My paper will focus on these issues of aggression, rage and violence as traits of masculine and feminine sexuality with details semiotic analysis of landforms and its pictorial representations through the film NH 10