A genuinely intense and serious way of spreading awareness on road safety, carrying a dark warning to anyone who carelessly breaks traffic rules.

After watching director Pawan Kumar's masterpiece Lucia, I was eagerly following his next project, C10H14N2. Along the way, I came across this film, U Turn.

Although I hadn't heard as much about it compared to Lucia, I knew I had to watch it. Deep down, I felt that coming from such a talented director, it was bound to be anything but conventional.

The movie delivers right from the opening frames. The credits roll over a continuous camera shot tracking along the concrete divider of a flyover—the very flyover that acts as a central character throughout the narrative.

Another clever touch in the opening sequence is the background score, where vocals chant "Karma". As the story unfolds, the deeper significance of Karma and consequences becomes painfully clear.

The plot pivots around Rachna, a young journalism intern in Bangalore who is keen to write an investigative feature on commuters who illegally move concrete blocks to take U-turns on a busy flyover. An elderly homeless man stationed near the junction helps Rachna note down the license plate numbers of offenders. With help from a friend at the RTO, she tracks down their addresses to interview them.

Everything seems routine until Rachna attempts to contact her first subject. The narrative takes a sudden suspenseful turn when she is taken into police custody as a prime suspect in that very person's murder. Slowly, Rachna realizes she is trapped in something far more sinister: every driver who took an illegal U-turn on that flyover died by suicide on that exact same day.

Rachna tries to convince the police of this bizarre pattern, but receives no support. Realizing she is on her own, she decides to take a U-turn on the flyover herself to uncover the truth behind the suicides. That night, she encounters the spirits of a mother and daughter who died in a horrific accident caused by a displaced divider block left in the road by a careless driver. The restless souls have been exacting vengeance on anyone who takes that shortcut and endangers innocent lives.

Toward the climax, the film takes several sharp narrative twists, keeping the suspense tightly coiled until the final scene where the law of Karma reaches its conclusion.

It stands as a testament to what fine storytelling can accomplish even on a modest budget. Looking forward to C10H14N2!

Key details worth noting:

• In a scene where a young man is shown taking drugs, a CD case of the movie Lucia is visibly placed in the background.
• During the end credits, real documentary footage plays showing actual commuters carelessly moving divider blocks and taking illegal U-turns on the flyover.