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There’s rarely a way to compliment a director for trying without it seeming both condescending and like foreshadowing a lengthy exegesis of their film’s failure. But it is important to note that Imtiaz Ali is not some run-of-the-mill hack, and that when he goes awry, it’s from having tried something interesting that didn’t work, rather than trotting out shopworn banalities. There’s a lot to like in Ali’s latest, “Highway,” which is a gorgeously assembled, ambitious piece of work, although it doesn’t coalesce into a holistically successful film.

It opens with Veera ( Alia Bhatt ), convincing her fiancé to take her for a drive to escape their all-consuming wedding preparations. The fiancé, under duress, complies, and per his fears about straying too far from the house at night, when they stop at a gas station, Veera is abducted by masked bandits making an escape. When her abductors find out who she is—the daughter of an extremely rich and influential man—the leader of the group panics and Mahabir ( Randeep Hooda ), Veera’s initial abductor, takes her and sets out on his own to ransom her, seething with anger at the ruling classes. And yet, from this decidedly unpromising starting point, romance first buds and then flowers between Veera and Mahabir.

It’s to Ali’s credit that he controls the tone and pace to such a degree that the romance feels organic, rather than a screenwriter’s contrivance. Veera finds, in fairly short order, that being held hostage by a band of quasi-radical bandits is actually less constricting than upper-class bourgeois life. Her ease with the bandits throws them all for a bit of a loop, and gradually chips away at Mahabir’s monolithic, humorless exterior and before he knows it, he’s taken with her incongruous pleasantness, and he begins to see her as a young woman rather than a symbol of the hated plutocracy.

Once Veera and Mahabir are in love, the film suddenly finds itself without apparent options, and its metaphorical highway becomes something of a dirt road through the woods on a foggy evening. The ultimate resolution becomes fairly inevitable at a certain point, however much one might wish it to not happen. The last few minutes of “Highway” are very awkward, especially in contrast to the lyrical sweep of the previous hour and a half or so, and lead to an extremely muddled final image, which suffers in contrast to the clarity of the rest of the piece. And so it ends, and too bad.

To leave off on a higher note than the film itself does, “Highway” has a number of virtues. Anil Mehta’s cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, with some sublime panoramic shots once Veera and Mahabir get to Himachal Pradesh in northern India. And, as for Veera and Mahabir, Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda give passionate if slightly raw (especially in Bhatt’s case) performances. Their chemistry is terrific, even if the continuity from scene to scene flags a bit in places. When they’re at their best, though, the two leads are a delight to watch, and Bhatt in particular should have a long career ahead of her if she continues to get good parts in interesting films.

For, whatever else can be said about it in terms of it working or not working, “Highway” is a kind of film there should be more of: an impeccable display of craft, with both a brain and heart, that tries something new. Its peaks are wonderful; the one among which not yet mentioned being “Pataka Gudhi,” the song immediately post-interval, the proverbial “good A.R. Rahman song,” which textually coincides perfectly with Veera’s first realization of her complete freedom from her stultifying home life. If not for the film’s tendency to drift off into the ether to the complete loss of all its momentum and purpose, and for the horribly awkward conclusion, “Highway” might be a very good movie indeed. Instead, it’s an inconsistent, if intermittently splendorous, work. There are, to be perfectly clear, far worse things in life.

Danny Bowes

Danny Bowes is a theatre and film critic for Salt Lake City Weekly whose work has appeared in Premiere, The Atlantic, Indiewire, Yahoo! Movies, and Tor.com. You can read more of his work on his blog .

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Film Review: ‘Highway’

Life is literally a highway for kidnapper and victim in this engaging and atypical improvised Bollywood road movie.

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Abduction paradoxically results in liberation for both the sheltered daughter of a rich industrialist and her hardened-criminal kidnapper in Imtiaz Ali’s “Highway.” Atypically, neither strain dominates in this Bollywood road movie, which intertwines dark social issues and blithe romance , thanks in part to relative newcomer Alia Bhatt’s endearingly cockeyed perf and “Slumdog Millionaire” Oscar winner A. R. Rahman’s powerful score. Tracing a journey of self-discovery through six North Indian states without a formal script, Ali’s actors, like his characters, effectively improvise in a meandering present tense, stripped of any viable destination. Opening Feb. 21 following its Berlin Film Festival premiere, “Highway” should score with Indian auds globally, with arthouse crossover a distant possibility. 

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Desperate to escape the extravagant preparations for her wedding, Veera (Bhatt) convinces her reluctant boyfriend to take her on a short ride. Caught up in a gas-station robbery/shootout, she is grabbed as a hostage and kept for ransom by gang leader Mahabir (Randeep Hooda). Bound, gagged and thrown in the back of a truck, Veera cries and moans, terrified and demoralized by her rough handling. When the gang stops at an empty warehouse, she escapes, racing into the night.

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Veera’s flight marks a turning point in the film, as helmer Ali alternates between whirlwind closeups of the character running frantically toward the camera and extreme long shots of her tiny figure amid the infinite salt flats under a vast, star-filled sky.  Defeated by the limitless emptiness, Veera runs from whence she came, falling into the arms of Mahabir.

The next morning finds the heroine suddenly turned fearless, with no one more surprised by the transformation than Veera herself. Indeed, her character is saved from extreme improbability and excessive cutesiness by her quizzical, inward-looking astonishment at her own behavior, a befuddlement which she freely shares with her abductors, to whom she blurts aloud any stray thought that crosses her mind. Plunking herself down in the truck’s front seat, she begins to enjoy the trip, her previous family travels having merely transported her from one luxury hotel to another.

Veera’s enthusiasm and artless affection very gradually wear down the gruff Mahabir, despite his hatred of her class. Never entirely abandoning his surly negativity, he allows only an occasional inadvertent smile to reveal his growing attraction. Passion remains totally absent in this romantic equation, which nevertheless surpasses Bollywood’s traditional avoidance of overt sexuality.

As it happens, both Veera and Mahabir are haunted by deep childhood sexual traumas. These horrific backstories gain weight and resonance through the characters’ tension-filled accounts, while brief flashbacks reinforce their present-day impact. These demons have left Veera and Mahabir alienated from their pasts — the road, which merely furnishes postcard backdrops for elaborate musical numbers in many Hindi films, is their natural habitat.

Aside from a half-hummed song and a spirited solo roadside dance by Bhatt, Rahman’s evocative songs function mainly as inner voices conveying the characters’ unspoken emotions, while their impromptu dialogue (minimal on his part, run-on on hers) attests to their growing familiarity and ease. “Highway” benefits greatly from Ali’s improvisational approach to every aspect of the production.

Fully justifying the helmer’s faith in an untried actress, Bhatt interiorizes a self-realization that is only incidentally romantic, bringing an underlying sadness and wistful intelligence to one of the oldest cliches in the Bollywood playbook: the transformation of a sheltered rich girl through the vital immediacy of her lower-class lover. Anil Mehta’s HD lensing cannily exploits specific landscapes of the varied provinces the film traverses, from Rajasthan’s salt flats to Kashmir’s snow-capped mountains, interpreting them as psychologically resonant topography rather than picturesque travelogue. Meanwhile, Rahman’s music, freed from the staginess of intricately choreographed, multi-costumed setpieces, flows sinuously throughout.

Reviewed at Magno screening room, New York, Feb. 13, 2014. (Also in Berlin Film Festival — Panorama Special.) Running time: 133 MIN.

• Production: (India) A UTV Motion Pictures release of a Window Seat Films/Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment production. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Imtiaz Ali.
• Crew: Directed, written by Imtiaz Ali. Camera (color, HD), Anil Mehta; editor, Aarti Bajaj; music, A.R. Rahman; lyrics, Irshad Kamil; production designer, Sumit Basu; costume designer, Aki Narula; sound designer, Resul Pookutty.
• With: Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar, Saharsh Kumar Shukla. (Hindi dialogue)

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Highway, A Destination Film, A Journey To Free Myself

Destination films are often a balm to our souls, allowing us to escape from the confines of our homes, something we all craved especially in the year of the pandemic. We dreamt of bachelor trips in Spain, trekking with school friends in Manali, and of spiritual awakenings in Bali.

But some journeys are more liberating than others. Some free you from the shackles of pain you've put on yourself, from the mufflers you put on your own heart and throat so that your every day could be a little bit more bearable. One such journey is the one Veera Tripathi (played by a mesmerising Alia Bhatt) undertakes in Imtiaz Ali's Highway (2014).

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Highway follows a young daughter of a Delhi industrialist, kidnapped from a petrol station, who discovers what it feels to be free on the roads of India. The film co-stars a magnetic Randeep Hooda as the kidnapper and petty thief Mahabir, who kidnaps Veera with his compatriots, not realising her father has powerful ties to the government.

As they travel across the country evading the police, Veera discovers newfound independence, one away from her haunted past of being sexually abused by her family. She reveals this to Mahabir, whose conflicted feelings about the girl he kidnapped grow to become affection. He even tries to help her escape by dropping her off at a police station, but she vehemently refuses, as she has found happiness in the vagabond life that she and Mahabir shared.

As they both share troubling stories from their childhood, we see two kindred souls becoming balms for each other's spirit, a momentary love story that soothes us in the process. This, like most road movies, is a bildungsroman, but the journey Veera takes is not just the one where she is physically kidnapped, but also towards her choice to be free and unapologetically herself. She discovers the futility of running away from her problems deep within the salt flats of Gujarat and reflects on the expanse of the world around her at the foothills of the Himalayas. Gone is the quiet, compliant girl in the first twenty or thirty minutes of the film; we begin to see the spark of curiosity and the childlike joy that she spreads to everyone around her.

Highway was a painful first watch for me, especially the visceral reaction at the end of the film when Veera finally confronts her tormentors and allows herself to feel pain at Mahabir's death. It was a provocative mirror for me, one that pushed me to confront my own struggles with mental health. But it was equally the freedom and empowerment Veera felt in occupying her own space, alongside the struggle to let go of what hurt her, that allowed me to act upon my own tribulations.

Since 2014, I can safely say that I've not only played 'Patakha Guddi' on repeat as a fight song, but last year permanently inked the Irshad Kamil lyrical masterpiece on my left arm, to serve as an everyday reminder of how proud I am of my journey to myself. So, I implore you, dear reader: go on, find yourself.  

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“In bondage, she found freedom.” That’s the tagline in the trailer for the Hindi movie “Highway,” and it makes you wonder if the film will be appalling or merely clueless. It’s neither, though it has tone trouble as it searches for a genre to contain a story with built-in believability problems.

The “she” who finds freedom is Veera (Alia Bhatt), a rich urbanite whose wedding preparations we see in the first, claustrophobic scenes. “Let’s run away,” she tells her strait-laced fiancé. He’s willing to go for a drive but warns of the dangers of leaving the city.

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The director, Imtiaz Ali ( “Rockstar” ), doesn’t soft-pedal the violence of Veera’s kidnapping or the rough treatment she receives at her abductors’ hands. She’s gagged and bound and slapped and tossed in the back of an old truck. One of the kidnappers gropes her.

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Bollywood’s latest attempt to push the envelope is a feminist coming-of-age road movie exploring Stockholm Syndrome – the psychological condition in which a hostage develops empathy for their kidnapper.

Veera (Alia Bhatt) is a young, rich and sheltered Delhi woman who is abducted by the lowly Mahabir (Randeep Hooda) on the eve of her love-marriage. They go on the run in his truck through the north of India and bond in the process. It is during captivity that Veera learns to be free and finds her true path in life. Meanwhile, the police give chase.

Unlike Hollywood, which has explored the hostage-in-love theme several times, this is uncharted terrain for Hindi cinema. Director Imtiaz Ali generally succeeds in telling a touching tale of an ill-starred relationship, aided by jaw-dropping cinematography of the rural landscape.

Alas, the film is unable to fully escape the trappings of the ‘formula’. It’s too long, the narrative lacks subtlety and the ‘troubled souls’ characterisation is lazy: fragile Veera was abused as a child whilst broody Mahabir has mummy issues. Double-Oscar winner A R Rahman’s folksy soundtrack is a bonus but doesn’t help the pace of the journey.

Competent performances from the lead pair bring a genuine heart to proceedings, raising 'Highway' above its shortcomings. The result is a roadworthy trip.

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I spent the entire last half of the movie crying. The concept is so close to being awful, so close to being merely a cliche, and yet the film is transcendent. A huge part of that is obviously Alia and Randeep’s incredible performances. But also I think it works because it’s a movie invested in confronting and healing the traumas of both femininity and masculinity instead of using a woman as a tool to fix a man.

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“ The place you got me from.. I don’t want to go back there. The place we’re going to.. I don’t want to get there. But this road.. it’s very good. I want this road to never end. ”

A never-ending road. A pure companion. The wonders of the world. Above all, freedom. Gone are the confines of her gaudy Delhi home — where she’s seen as a little statue that does and says what is asked of her — she’s always polite — she always listens — she’s always decent .

HIGHWAY is a film as cathartic as it is nauseating. But should it be cathartic? It’s a movie about a young woman being kidnapped by a group of thugs that throw…

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"I don't plan on raising your kids. Or marrying you. There's no plan. All I want is a little more. A little longer with you. I've never felt like this before. The way I feel about you. I can do anything. Anything I feel like. And you'll take care of it. I don't even have to think. I've never felt like this."

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• 60 Variety Ronnie Scheib Variety Ronnie Scheib Tracing a journey of self-discovery through six North Indian states without a formal script, Ali’s actors, like his characters, effectively improvise in a meandering present tense, stripped of any viable destination.
• 50 RogerEbert.com RogerEbert.com There's a lot to like in Ali's latest, Highway, which is a gorgeously assembled, ambitious piece of work, although it doesn't coalesce into a holistically successful film.
• 40 The Hollywood Reporter Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter Deborah Young Ali has a deft hand in creating a fantasy world based on the classical Sita-Ravana model, and gives Bhatt free rein to project herself with unabashed teenage appeal.
• 40 The New York Times Rachel Saltz The New York Times Rachel Saltz The cinematographer Anil Mehta’s lovely, unfussy images ground the film and show us a good bit of India... Mr. Ali’s story, though, wanders too long and too far, sometimes coming off like a forced mash-up of “It Happened One Night” and “Patty Hearst.”
• 30 Village Voice Zachary Wigon Village Voice Zachary Wigon The degree to which Highway candies up Veera's slumming toward freedom feels so fundamentally out of touch with the realities of poverty that it skirts into offensiveness.
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Highway (2014)

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Highway Hindi Movie

Highway is a 2014 Indian movie directed by Imtiaz Ali starring Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt. The feature film is produced by Imtiaz Ali and Sajid Nadiadwala and the music composed by A R Rahman.

A girl. A city girl - young, full of life - is on the highway at night. With her fiance. They are scheduled to get married in four days.

Director: Imtiaz Ali Producers: Imtiaz Ali , Sajid Nadiadwala Production Companies: UTV Motion Pictures , Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Window Seat Films Music Director: A R Rahman Song Lyrics Writer: Irshad Kamil Sound Designer: Rasool Pookutty Cinematographer: Anil Mehta Editor: Aarti Bajaj Original Story Writer: Imtiaz Ali

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One of the gifted directors in Bollywood to achieve a sort of middle ground in his movies blending successfully commercial elements, yet exploring relevant, contemporary themes, Imtiaz Ali has taken a sort of off the beaten track with Highway (the plot device though is very much the explored ‘road trip’ as in his other movies). With a simplistic story, Ali populates the movie with characters so strong and luminously written it is impossible to walk out of the movie hall without a heavy heart. The narrative nuance is accentuated by brilliant visuals, Rahman’s heartfelt score and actors who clutch their roles closer to their hearts like they would a puppy. Highway will be among the best movies you will see coming out of Bollywood this year.

Highway is about the curious bond a soon to be married young girl from an affluent Delhi family develops with her kidnapper – an uncouth man. The movie begins grippingly enough, setting a tone for something unpleasant and before you realize that has happened, there is a succession of events that engrosses you. Be it unpleasant or otherwise, the tone is kept consistent throughout and the movie and the relationships that develop ahead flow organically.

You know that lurking under the skin of the movie is something horrid waiting to happen. You are left without a clue as to when that would, and Imtiaz capitalizes on that feeling – so when the truck is being searched, when she gets abandoned somewhere in Himachal, when she breaks into tears gazing at the sheer beauty of gushing water, you feel the moment is near. So near you could feel it. But it is not. It strikes you like a blow when you least expect it.

There could not have been a more perfect casting decision than Alia Bhatt. It feels like Imtiaz picked Alia to get her out of her city-bred comfort zone and shake her world vigorously. She takes it all in gloriously. Her performance is deeply felt - the girl of an urban upbringing - chatty, shallow in parts, whose wide-eyed curiosity of seeing and experiencing things away from her cocooned life comes across as genuine as a bank teller’s currency notes.  Strangely, in her abduction she finds freedom from the binding ties of her family and her inner demons. She wants the trip to not end and you want that for her.

Though hidden under layers of clothing and a messy mop of head and facial hair, Randeep is quite a force in the movie. His unsympathetic demeanor, pushing her forward and daring her to run away, the slow but steady crumbling of his resoluteness – Randeep often elbows Alia out with his layered performance. And he thaws towards her for he has had a harsh upbringing with little or no love to show or receive. That lawless thug’s hard exterior peels off with unexpected kindness from a stranger. His is a love deeply entrenched in intense cynicism – ‘kya karegi mere saath aake? Shaadi karegi mujhse?’ he asks her in exasperation. Randeep portrays it with staunch conviction that it is difficult to forget his character long after the movie is over. As Alia’s character says, ‘plan nahin hai, bus thodi aur time tumhare saath.’ He wants it too but he is rational and does not want to side with such spontaneous decisions because he has seen enough in life.

The narrative pauses and cadences, punctuated by rustic and charming visuals aided by wonderfully unobtrusive cinematography (by Anil Mehta), characterize the movie. Rahman's music is like a narrative form on its own; it is like a gush of fresh blood up your veins that invigorates your body, like the second rail that's crucial for a train’s movement. Songs form as much part of the narrative as much the actors’ quirks are.

It is not all glum, tender moments after tender moments unfurl with the immediacy of a ticking time bomb. You heartily laugh at scenes such as this one - Alia breaking into a disco, partly to break the monotony and partly to celebrate her newfound, uncertain freedom. The penultimate scenes though feel a wee bit dramatic and what follows next is not quite uncommon to come out of a Bollywood movie.

Highway grips you from the word go and its pace doesn’t slacken. It is an intense cinematic experience that will consume you with its brilliance. Watch it for its lead pair, the taut narrative, Rahman’s music and the visuals.

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Highway movie.

A girl. A city girl - young, full of life - is on the highway at night. With her fiance. They are scheduled to get married in four days. Suddenly, her life is swung away from the brocade and jewellery of marriage to the harsh brutality of abduction. She is ...  taken away by this group of rustic criminals. Her life will never be the same again.

The same night, the gang is in panic. The girl is a big industrialist's daughter. His links in the corridors of power make ransom out of the question. They are doomed. But the leader of this group is adamant. For him sending her back is not an option. He will do whatever it takes to see this through.

Days pass. These are days of unbelievable horror for her. But, as the Tempo runs and miles turn, as the scenery changes, the light changes, the sun sets and rises and the air changes, she feels that she has changed as well.

Gradually, a strange bond begins to develop between the victim and the oppressor. It is in this captivity that she, for the first time in her life, feels free. But they are not made for each other. She does not want to return to where she came from. She does not want to reach where he is taking her. She wishes this journey to never end.

Maybe the Highway will not really change her; she will go on with her life like everyone else. Maybe this feeling is just a passing phase. Maybe not.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Highway

In this Highway film, Randeep Hooda , Alia Bhatt played the primary leads.

The Highway was released in theaters on 21 Feb 2014.

The Highway was directed by Imtiaz Ali

Movies like Chhaava , Deva , Bad Newz and others in a similar vein had the same genre but quite different stories.

The soundtracks and background music were composed by A R Rahman for the movie Highway.

The movie Highway belonged to the Romance, genre.

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Vasudevan 3499 Days Ago

Superb film. Randeep and Alia chemistry fantastic. I like very much Randeep acting a lot.

Ashu 3848 Days Ago

Fabulous Acting You And Randeep,Had Done In "HIGHWAY",Alia! :)

bhargav 3852 Days Ago

Jinder 3853 days ago.

I really enjoyed the movie, awesome scenery and a totally different movie from normal Bollywood ( copy Hollywood ) movies. After a very long time we enjoyed a Bollywood movie. Bravo to the director and very good performance by the actors. Great..

Dominc 3854 Days Ago

Its a beautiful films. Feeling proud the standards of Indian films are going up really high... good work guys

Noman 3856 Days Ago

the movie say harder

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