Highway (2014)

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Movie
Original title Highway
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 2014
length 133 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Imtiaz Ali
script Imtiaz Ali
production Imtiaz Ali
Sajid Nadiadwala
music AR Rahman
camera Anil Mehta
cut Aarti Bajaj
occupation

Highway is an Indian drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali. The film was produced and released under the Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment banner. Highway was shown at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival and is Alia Bhatt's second film in which she plays the leading role. She was previously featured in Karan Johars Student of the Year .

action

Veera Tripathi is in the wedding stress and asks her fiancé Vinay, whom she will marry in four days, to drive her out of town. She tells him about her dreams that she would like a house in the mountains and that she would like to lead a simple life with her husband. Vinay stops at a gas station. Suddenly, shots are fired and men rush to Veera and take her hostage. They pull Vinay out of the car and drive Veera to a deserted place. There she is led into a shed, with her hands tied and her mouth plugged. When Mahabir, one of the criminals who kidnapped Veera, asks her name, he realizes that she is the daughter of a rich man who has contacts with the state and realizes that he has made a mistake. The other criminals want nothing more to do with Mahabir because they know that it cannot end well. Mahabir doesn't want to back down and escorts Veera with a truck and two other criminals from town to town in order not to be caught by the police. Veera likes it unusually. She feels free and has no more worries. The truck is checked by the police at the border. You suspect she is up to something. When the police opened the truck, surprisingly they found no one. Veera has been hiding from the police and can't explain to herself why. Veera confesses to Mahabir that her uncle repeatedly raped her in the bathroom when she was a young child. She told her mother, but her mother hushed it up and never asked Veera to talk about it again. Mahabir's anger fades over time and he decides to let Veera go. He wants to hand Veera over to the police, but Veera flees. She likes the carefree life with Mahabir. Both live in a house on the mountains, just like Veera always wanted. One day Mahabir is shot. Veera hears the shots and rushes to him. A group of policemen surrounds the two of them. Veera screams and asks what the shooting was for. It would not have been necessary. Any help comes too late. Mahabir dies from the injuries. What remains is a confused Veera. At home she is given sedatives. Veera has gathered courage over the past few months and reveals to the whole family what her uncle has done to her over the years. She is furious and leaves the family. She goes back to the house in the mountains where she spent time with Mahabir, and there she lives on and reminisces.

music

# title Singer length
1 Patakha Guddi (female version) Sultana Nooran, Jyoti Nooran 04:45
2 Maahi Ve AR Rahman 04:00
3 Kahaan Hoon Main Jonita Gandhi 05:28
4th Wanna Mash Up? Lady Kash and Krissy, Suvi Suresh 03:40
5 Sooha Saaha Zeb, Alia Bhatt 04:59
6th Patakha Guddi (male version) AR Rahman 05:58
7th Implosive silence Jonita Gandhi 05:42
8th Do Kuja Sunidhi Chauhan 04:29
9 Heera Shweta Pandit 04:33

Awards

Randeep Hooda won the Stardust Award 2014 in the Best Actor category and Imtiaz Ali in the Best Director category , which he shares with the director of the film Quenn Vikas Bahl. Alia Bhatt also won the 2015 Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bollywoodtrade.com/film-festivals-and-markets-news/imtiaz-alis-highway-completes-berlinale-panorama-feature-line-up/1103.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/stardust-awards-2014-winners-full-list/
  3. ↑ http://www.filmfare.com/news/the-winners-of-the-60th-andenia-filmfare-awards-8313.html