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Highway

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 13m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
32K
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Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt in Highway (2014)
Set against the backdrop of the new culture of bandhas (general strikes) that frequently immobilize post-conflict Nepal, Highway explores five different relationship stories that become intertwined during an ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to the capital, Kathmandu. While the passengers - each of whom urgently needs to be somewhere else - await a resolution to the combustible strike that is blocking the only passable road, the film explores the psychological and spiritual bandhs that many Nepalese contend with.
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Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.

  • Director
    • Imtiaz Ali
  • Writer
    • Imtiaz Ali
  • Stars
    • Alia Bhatt
    • Randeep Hooda
    • Durgesh Kumar
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    32K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Imtiaz Ali
    • Writer
      • Imtiaz Ali
    • Stars
      • Alia Bhatt
      • Randeep Hooda
      • Durgesh Kumar
    • 229User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
    • 40Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 27 nominations total

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    Alia Bhatt
    Alia Bhatt
    • Veera Tripathi
    Randeep Hooda
    Randeep Hooda
    • Mahabir Bhati
    Durgesh Kumar
    Durgesh Kumar
    • Aadoo
    Pradeep Nagar
    • Tonk
    Sahaarsh Shuklaa
    Sahaarsh Shuklaa
    • Goru
    • (as Saharsh Kumar Shukla)
    Hemant Mathur
    • Kasana
    Shakeel Khan
    • Sharaf
    Mohit Choudhary
    • ACP Special Cell
    Reuben Israel
    • Mr. Manek Tripathi - Veera's father
    Arjun Malhotra
    • Vinay
    Naina Trivedi
    Naina Trivedi
    • Amma
    Mohd. Kaif
    • Young Mahabir
    Samar Mudasir Bakshi
    • Young Veera
    Pinu Verma
    • Infant Mahabir
    Misha Bhalla
    • Infant Mahabir
    Avtar Sahani
      Sandeep Leyzell
      Mohit Rastogi
      • Director
        • Imtiaz Ali
      • Writer
        • Imtiaz Ali
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      10ankurlkw

      A fabulous movie

      Let me start by saying that this movie has everything right about it. From direction and cinematography to performances and music. The locations are breath taking.

      Imtiaz Ali yet again delivers a "hat ke" love story. Its not exactly a love story but a tale of two people who want to get free and experience life. Both the characters have there own painful pasts and when they come together they let it all go and try to start it all over again.

      Their journey is the theme of this movie. Alaya Bhatt and Randeep Hooda deliver power packed performances with a great supporting cast.

      The movie forces us to think about the society we live in and how people struggle to lead a normal life. Be it a rich family or a poor villager. They have there own challenges.

      I won't go more into the story line as that is something to be experienced.

      This movie comes with a message and we are left to think what freedom and liberation means.

      I will strongly recommend this one.
      10Fella_shibby

      Clint Eastwood's The Perfect World comes to mind. Nevertheless a very well made n thought provoking movie.

      I saw this first day first show with my family in a suburban theatre.

      The movie is thought provoking and it deals with a social message.

      Lovely cinematography with a power to heal, to nurture and free your soul.

      It made me want to almost pack my bags and take off into the unknown, the joy of lying down beneath the stars, beside a river or even just driving through the snow-capped mountains is enticing to say the least.

      Randeep Hooda is very underrated.

      He gave a solid performance.

      The direction n cinematography is top notch n the best part is the screenplay.

      The ending is very shocking and so is the background story of the male lead character.
      9sachkitaalash

      A Masterpiece piece of Art !!

      THIS MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE...This movie has a soul...a silent scream of a person that has nowhere to go and no one to speak to...and so life is just a HIGHWAY !! Two people from different economic strata, brought together by fate, yet having similar childhood of mistrust, trauma and abuse. There is that void..a deep hole within the soul... that can never ever be forgotten and never be filled ever again. This movie has so many layers deep within it... like how men react differently to traumatic childhood by being aggressive and secluded within, longing for the mother figure to comfort them, and women on the other hand become carefree, wanting to just run from it all and always longing for that father figure that can take care of her always. Imitiaz Ali has researched it so well that you can feel the pain, the inappropriate joy ...and the crazy feeling of comfort in the most strange circumstances. Brilliant piece of art with such a grey hue and painted on landscape of colors !! Alia bhatt..has talent..plenty, plenty of it, and randheep hooda is brilliant. Imitiaz Ali knows the soul and heart of a woman and recreates it well in all its brilliance... a MUST watch Film !!
      8navindutt-531-713281

      You are now on the highway. Please Applaud !

      I have a soft corner for Imtiaz Ali. Dating back to an interaction two decades back. I almost stood up when I first saw Jab We Met. The surprises at every corner of the road traveled by Shahid and Kareena were absolute delights. He evoked a classy sense of humor in Love Aaj Kal and then I watched with disconcert not sure if I had liked RockStar. Having been drunk on the heavenly music of the movie by Maestro A R Rahman and after practically selling Pataka Guddi to everyone who wanted to hear, the wait for the movie was finally worth it.

      The verdict straight away. I wanted to stand up again. Just microscopically short of being a marvelous and a great movie. The opening kidnapping scene takes you back to Roja, when another master Mani had led you to the hills and captured them with the camera caressing nature careful not to pollute it with attention too much. I bit my lips praying that the wonderful songs by ARR were not tucked into the screenplay to pop up jarringly to justify themselves.

      The film is not about a story. It is about treatment. It is about loving your country well enough to make it appear more alluring than a dozen other over rated countries. It is the ability to see beauty as much in a whole row of dilapidated trucks lost in time as in a snow laden country racing by, or taking the road less traveled alongside a river with virgin gurgling waters.

      The protagonist Alia lands up, in a sequence of events, on a road journey with her apparently malicious perpetrator. Being on the run is not used as an excuse to showcase scenery but knowingly used as a tool to allow the individuals who are hurting from deep within to unravel themselves. If you do not allow yourself to be sucked into their lives you may find the plot-line dreary because you cannot connect with the alternating misery and happiness of the main leads.

      The girl is from a wealthy and powerful family and appears gung-ho about life. Till the road journey scratches her surface provoking her to abandon efforts to get back to her cozy life and instead tease out the wound which appeared to have healed externally but is hurting deep within. The experience mirrors in the male lead Randeep's evolution in the journey. Brilliantly interweaving personal stories within the main matrix of a kidnapping used as a tool to lay out the emotional wares, Imtiaz is simply outstanding out doing himself in the process and marching into uncharted territory without sacrificing the entertainment index.

      Talking too much particulars and specifics of the movie will actually destroy the experience of watching it and the hard work put in creating the various moments an accumulation of which actually completes the experience, will be lost. Softly nudging the story along is AR Rahman with his soulful numbers never ever appearing out of place and taking care never to intrude into the narrative and when it does with Pataka Guddi, Alia simply traces out the music with her fingers in the air. She even sings a lullaby with not a note lost.

      There are many winners in this movie. Randeep Hooda, a wonderful actor who has been floundering for some time now trying to make a niche for himself has found his cut with this role. He performs it with the right amount of restraint never once going overboard or hamming to overwhelm his own character.

      Director Imtiaz Ali brings a lot of serenity with his very clear presence behind the camera. The editing is seamless aided by great photography except when camera shots on top of a truck giving the front and the back views are totally disconnected, the rear camera showing a well tarred road and the front one showing a narrow rough road. Obviously very bad editing at that point. Perhaps they thought no one would notice it but it jars!

      There are wonderful real people all along the screen play and they live up to their individual roles with natural vigor creating memorable characters. Imtiaz merits each character in the story with an uniqueness that allows them to stand out on their own and make a mark in the few moments that they are on screen. Last seen only in Lagaan or Swades.

      And as for the main female lead. Dare I say that this is the performance of the year? Perhaps in the last few years only Vidya Balan has come this close with her natural flair in Kahaani. Here we see a full throated performance from Alia who gives herself up to the director and his vision. This is one of the most spirited natural performances in recent times. Be ready to get choked in a final long gut wrenching climax carried on shoulders fully by the young girl. The signs of a star certainly.

      Want to be surprised? Want to flush the bad experiences of some bad movies recently? Enter this Zen like audio visual experience. And you will not regret. So why not a full five star rating. Because the film is allowed to intentionally flag at some places making the narrative appear to be taking a pause. But this is highly debatable in terms of the impact they could have on the final output.It is the total sum of all the effects that complete the experience for the audience. It is difficult to believe that the movie has not been shot chronologically. So perfect is the transition from scene to scene. This is a craft difficult to create and easy to comment on. For today I will just applaud! Well done Imtiaz!
      mailrenault-1

      Beautifully scripted movie along the roads of north India.

      IMHO...

      Excellent... beautiful... superlative... three words i am very wary of using when describing a movie... the rarer i do it, the more importance it holds.

      GET ON THIS HIGHWAY.

      Ramesh Sippy had his Sholay, Alia Bhat has her HIGHWAY. This young actress, i never thought good of (i gave her Student of the Year a wide berth). Here she has kept me riveted for a good length of time with her facial contortions... her voice, her silence, her eyes, her dressing..... everything. her transformation from a cocooned girl to a free butterfly during the course of the movie is sublime. ill give her a perfect 12 out of 10. and she didn't have to resort to ANY skin show; no T&A here, pure genes at play. She shines. the movie belongs to her, and she excels.

      the story is simple, the subplots un-complicated. be it the horny accomplice (well its essentially a kidnapping story), the good at heart sidekick, the adequately sinister/ curiously enigmatic randeep hooda (more on him later, he deserves a separate writeup), the camera work, the locations, the un-obtrusive soundtrack and music that grows on you. i found very little to complain about in the movie. probably Alia's Stockholm Syndrome kicked in too early into the movie, but im willing to overlook it.

      Randeep Hooda has the kind of brooding, lingering, intense screen presence that you'd associate with say a Ajay Devgn. tough to find fault. the way he hisses his expletives, the snarling of a person with a repressed background, the slow unfolding of a soft core, the endearing body language and sheer rugged sexiness. WOW. from the rustic dialect, to the clothes, to the grime filled fingernails... the effort to live the character is commendable.

      the background score and the songs, the overall tempo of the movie is very well complimented with the accompaniments. the purpose of good music is not to make its presence felt, but to ensure that its absence will hamper the narrative. That happens here. i don't remember a word of any song sung in the movie, but i know it was essential to drive the movie forward.

      The locations depicted in the movie, the adept camera-work made me want to whip out my cell phone and take pictures of the screen. the mountains, the overhanging cliffs along the routes, the beautiful countryside (kashmir/ rajasthan, lovely roads)... the lenses have been taught to fall in love with the locations. Zero doubt about it.

      watch the movie... Watch The Movie... WATCH THE MOVIE...

      good acting, good direction, good camera-work, good story, a well handled sensitive subplot, brilliant characters... what else do you need?

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      • Trivia
        The book Veera Tripathi is holding towards the end of the movie is "Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman" penned by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
      • Quotes

        Veera Tripathi: I neither want to go back to the place from where you brought me, nor to the place where you are going to take me, but this road is very good, i don't want to leave it.

      • Connections
        Featured in 60th Britannia Filmfare Awards (2015)

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      • Release date
        • February 21, 2014 (India)
      • Country of origin
        • India
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      • Language
        • Hindi
      • Also known as
        • Đường Cao Tốc
      • Filming locations
        • Kashmir(Final house)
      • Production companies
        • Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
        • Window Seat Films
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      • Gross US & Canada
        • $529,136
      • Opening weekend US & Canada
        • $326,654
        • Feb 23, 2014
      • Gross worldwide
        • $858,783
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      • Runtime
        • 2h 13m(133 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Dolby Digital
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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