Highway - A destined journey to meet the self!
It’s somewhat rare for our cinema to make movies based
totally on the strength of its story. Here’s a movie which was made, released
and promoted like any other commercial movie but had a heart and brain both
beyond that. The life of ‘Highway’ was its plot. A rich, young girl who gets
abducted and as the tag line suggests, “Finds freedom in bondage”.
Veera (Alia) seems to be a lucky girl from a high class, elite family who
is soon to get married. Much later, after her kidnapping, she shares that she is
a victim of child molestation and is still figuring out the sensibilities of
the world around her. Mahavir (Randeep), the leader of her kidnappers, on the other hand
has also had a troubled child- hood which brings them close and later, even
together.
The most different and the convincing thing about this movie
is its ending, (though most of you may disagree), that she ends up sticking to
the disregard for the world where she was born and brought up. She refuses to
accept the artificiality and ugliness of her old world after she finds the
honesty in the outside and so-called unsafe world. She chooses to quit her past
and build her future to embrace her new found freedom.
A special mention to the scene where ‘Mahavir’ lets ‘Veera’
try to escape and where she tries to run to an open and barren land. She finds
herself beneath an endless land and a shore-less sky. And it’s then when she
looks at the twinkling stars and runs back to her kidnappers. This reminded me
of the scene from the “Life of Pi”, where Pi imagines a whole lot of beautiful
images emerging from the ocean.
Just like Alia Bhatt’s screen presence, it was a pure and
honest effort of Imtiaz’s. Randeep spoke much more through his silence and
tears this time.
Rehman’s soulful music breathed life in the scenes.
Anil Mehta’s cinematography was simple and calm, and yet moving. It helped
us appreciate some parts of our Indian Landscape, yet again.
A serious, heart-touching watch!
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