She later comes back to parent's house, where she is surrounded by her family members, including her fiancé. But the very next morning Police come from somewhere and shoot Mahabir to which Veera reacts emotionally and strongly.
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Both sleep peacefully that night, free from their respective haunting pasts. Mahabir breaks out seeing the way Veera cares, reminding him of his mother. One of her many crazy dreams was always to have a small home in the mountains. However, Veera refuses and insists on staying with Mahabir.Together, they travel He starts to fall in love with her, they make a home in a hilltop house. He tries to leave her at a police station in one of the small mountainous towns they stop in. Mahabir escapes from there and has never returned.Įventually, Mahabir can't help but care for Veera and his anger fades away slowly. She was used as a sex slave by the rich landlords. His father abused both him and his mother when he was a young child. Slowly, she unravels his story in bits and pieces. Her fear of abduction is taken over by a sense of freedom.Įventually, when the police forcefully search the truck, Veera, surprisingly even to herself, hides.She concludes that she loves the journey and doesn't want to go back to her life. As the days go by, Veera finds peace and a new-found freedom in 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 years old. They continuously move to different cities, to avoid being tracked by police. However, Mahabir Bhati ( Randeep Hooda), one of her abductors, is willing to do whatever it takes to see this through. The gang who takes her panics when they find out that her father has links in the government. 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. But it offers fresh breezes and new sights.The story begins on the eve of the wedding of Veera Tripathi ( Alia Bhatt), the daughter of a rich business tycoon. Watch it for its cathartic creativity, for colours akin to Iranian palettes, for sound design where melting qawwalis, chirruping crickets and a screeching train make layers of noise - for that shot where Veera rests her head on a pillow of water. At times, Highway feels like an unending Bharat darshan, a long look at suffering souls through several deserts and eucalyptus trees. Imtiaz Ali must be congratulated for his daring novelty, for a powerful heroine-centric story, for his heroine who looks like a Vermeer painting dressed in a dusty ghaghra. Alongside, Aaroo (Durgesh Kumar), Mahavir's companion, who breaks into a delightful trance-wala dance with Veera as she sways to 'English music' on the road, is memorable.īut what stamps this film indelibly is its sheer boldness. Hooda's Mahavir is frightening, tightly controlled, the actor conveying dark dislike with crackling tension, switching to bewilderment with comic ease. Bhatt's range and prowess are evident in her timid confidence, the slow swagger Veera gains as she takes control of the situation, captivating her captor, confronting assault. Her Veera is stunning - sincere and simple, prettily earnest, shakily emotional.
Highway belongs unabashedly to Alia Bhatt.