![]() ![]() ![]() He will do whatever it takes to see this through. For him sending her back is not an option. His links in the corridors of power make ransom out of the question. The girl is a big industrialist's daughter. Suddenly, her life is swung away from the brocade and jewelery of marriage to the harsh brutality of abduction. They are about to get married in four days. #FULL MOVIE HIGHWAY 2014 FULL#A city girl - young, full of life - is on the highway at night. Meanwhile, Rahman’s music, freed from the staginess of intricately choreographed, multi-costumed setpieces, flows sinuously throughout.Story :- A girl. 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. “Highway” benefits greatly from Ali’s improvisational approach to every aspect of the production.įully 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. 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.Īside 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. ![]() These horrific backstories gain weight and resonance through the characters’ tension-filled accounts, while brief flashbacks reinforce their present-day impact. Passion remains totally absent in this romantic equation, which nevertheless surpasses Bollywood’s traditional avoidance of overt sexuality.Īs it happens, both Veera and Mahabir are haunted by deep childhood sexual traumas. Never entirely abandoning his surly negativity, he allows only an occasional inadvertent smile to reveal his growing attraction. ![]() Veera’s enthusiasm and artless affection very gradually wear down the gruff Mahabir, despite his hatred of her class. 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. 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. The next morning finds the heroine suddenly turned fearless, with no one more surprised by the transformation than Veera herself. Defeated by the limitless emptiness, Veera runs from whence she came, falling into the arms of Mahabir. 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. When the gang stops at an empty warehouse, she escapes, racing into the night. Bound, gagged and thrown in the back of a truck, Veera cries and moans, terrified and demoralized by her rough handling. Caught up in a gas-station robbery/shootout, she is grabbed as a hostage and kept for ransom by gang leader Mahabir (Randeep Hooda). Desperate to escape the extravagant preparations for her wedding, Veera (Bhatt) convinces her reluctant boyfriend to take her on a short ride. ![]()
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