Highway (2014 Hindi film)
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| Directed by | Imtiaz Ali |
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Sajid Nadiadwala Imtiaz Ali |
| Written by | Imtiaz Ali |
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| Music by | A. R. Rahman |
| Cinematography | Anil Mehta |
| Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
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Window Seat Films
Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
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133 minutes |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹300 million |
| Box office | ₹600 million |
Highway is a 2014 Indian drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles. Screened in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, the film released worldwide on 21 February 2014 The film is based on the episode of the same name from the Zee TV anthology series Rishtey, starring Aditya Srivastava and Kartika Rane, which was also written and directed by Imtiaz Ali. Upon release the film met with positive reviews , especially Alia Bhatt's performance was liked by critics and audience as well.
The story begins on the eve of the wedding of Veera Tripathi (Alia Bhatt), the daughter of a rich business tycoon. She is at a petrol pump by the highway with her fiancé when she is abducted while her fiance sits in the car convulsed with fear. The gang who takes her panic when they find out that her father has links in the government. However, Mahabir Bhati (Randeep Hooda), one of her abductors, is willing to do whatever it takes to see this through.
They continuously move to different cities, to avoid being tracked by police. As the days go by, Veera finds peace and a new-found freedom from her bondage to the point that she confides in Mahabir the horrors of her childhood when she was abused by her own uncle as a nine-year-old. Her fear of abduction is taken over by a sense of freedom.
Eventually, when the police forcefully search the truck, Veera, surprising even herself, hides. She concludes that she loves the journey and doesn't want to go back to her life. Slowly, she unravels Mahabir's story in bits and pieces. His father abused both him and his mother when he was a young child. She was used as a sex slave by the rich landlords. Mahabir escapes from there and has never returned.
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