Highway review

A girl. A city girl - young, full of life - is on the highway at night. With her fiancé. They are about to get married in four days. Suddenly, her life is swung away from the brocade and jewelery of marriage to the harsh brutality of abduction. Her life will never be the same again. The same night, the gang is in panic. The girl is a big industrialist's daughter. His links in the corridors of power make ransom out of the question. They are doomed. But the leader of this group is adamant. For him sending her back is not an option. He will do whatever it takes to see this through. But as the days pass by, the scenery changes, the light changes, the sun sets and rises and the air changes, she feels that she has changed as well. Gradually, a strange bond begins to develop between the victim and the oppressor. It is in this captivity that she, for the first time, feels free. She does not want to go back but she also doesn't want to reach where he is taking her. 

Released worldwide on 21 February 2014, the film was screened in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. The film outlines the story of a young woman who is kidnapped right before her wedding and held for ransom wherein she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.

Initial release: February 21, 2014 (USA)

Running time: 133 minutes

Directed by	Imtiaz Ali
Produced by	Sajid Nadiadwala Imtiaz Ali
Written by	Imtiaz Ali
Starring	Randeep Hooda Alia Bhatt
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	Anil Mehta
Studio	Window Seat Films Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures

Cast

• Randeep Hooda as Mahabir Bhati
• Alia Bhatt as Veera Tripathi
• Saharsh Kumar Shukla as Goru
• Pradeep Nagar as Tonk
• Durgesh Kumar as Aadoo
• Arjun Malhotra as Vinay