~~~~Highway reviews ~~~~~ - Page 35

Originally posted by: nomad.ness

BTW, this was the first movie I watched of Randeep Hooda. And boy do I want to see more of him in the future! As for now, are there any of his previous movies that you all would suggest as a must watch?

Originally posted by: pathaka

does anyone else feel that the bond between mahabir and veera was NOT romantic? i never felt it was romantic or "love story" types when i saw the film...

i felt it was more like she found a friend/confidant/father /guardian figure in her life because she grossly lacked one all her life...like the man who abuses her was MEANT to be a father figure to her but she obviously despises him and yet still had to be nice to him throughout her llife, she dosent feel very close to her father because she dosent confide her truth to him...when she does confide to her mom, the mom brushes it under the carpet...so i really think the fact tht she confided to mahabir and felt more "protected" with him was because he was kinda like the family/guardian she never had...

i actually never thought their chemistry was ever "romantic" ...

Originally posted by: Hiral_Halwa

I am totally wondering too, why Veera opening up to her kidnappers is such a huge flaw as per the critics😕

Originally posted by: UsernameLoading

It wasn't..Baradwaj Rangan aptly calls it as a parent-child relationship that neither had..he becomes her father protecting her, she his mother caring for him..

I think Ali conceptualized it as a romantic relationship-because there are some scenes from Mahi Ve missing but Aarti Bajaj(who BTW has done an amazing job) chopped them..I like the final cut more because it was nicely balanced between the extremes of platonic and physical

Originally posted by: poppy2009

Same here! Why are critics so hung-up upon Veera opening up about her past or for that matter the abruptness of her confession? It is one of the most heartbreaking monologues ever seen in a hindi film...focus on that, dammit! Rather than why Veera does it or when she does it!

Her choice of words, which she uses to describe her ordeal was simply gut-wrenching and the way she talks...she takes the viewers to her very mind and makes us experience the horror and shock of a 9 year old going through sexual abuse at the very hand of someone she trusted.

Alia was bloody brilliant in the scene...I could not believe that here was this same girl who could barely even play the bimbo in SOTY last year and is now giving the performance of a lifetime! Even Randeep, who is kept in the background while Veera speaks...just look at his expressions when she starts speaking about her past and the way he stops eating and stares at her back with a look of absolute shock.

The scene was justapoxed very well in the film...and the abruptness or out of blue moment is quite apt given Veera's character...she has just been looking for that moment...that outlet when she could pour her heart out and she found it in the man, who let her speak without interupting or trying to avoid it.

Originally posted by: aekiel

I was searching for "hints" of a romantic relationship in the film, because that's what we tend to look at most in movies (love, chemistry and so on 😉)
Aaah..a fellow romantic..😆


Didn't find it a direct mention/hint in the film though, and that scene when Veera confesses that she doesn't want marriage or kids was probably the director's way of answering these questions.

But did you notice the question: Randeep asking her about marriage and kids provides enough undercurrents to the is there/is there not equation..After observing and experiencing a lot of life, I've come to the conclusion PURE platonic relationships are very rare..you put a boy and a girl together sparks are going to fly..There is no doubt about the physical attraction..It was all there..but along with fulfilling the typical boy-girl relationship, they also plugged in the gap of parental love..and it's not really that uncommon..guys want a girl like their mum..girls a guy like their dad..If I had to describe their relationship I'd call it that of partners😳

This is my interpretation..though I like Rangan's a lot too

The points Baradwaj Rangan made are very, very valid- I'll admit I didn't quite see the film in the same light originally 😊



2.) Blocking his path in the bus with her knees.
This has to be one of the best scenes..so much conveyed without words



This last bit is completely my POV though- people would have veered more easily to a romantic relationship if the lead actress was closer to Randeep's age (Anushka, Deepika, Sonam or others)

By selecting someone like Alia (who looks very, very young in comparison to Randeep), Imtiaz has left the option of a platonic, non romantic relationship as a real possibility.

Yes..I agree with this..A lot of us who are saying "glad it wasn't a typical love relationship" would probably be saying "uggh! but I was so shipping them together"😆

That's the beauty of the human mind..And that's what Ali understands really well

@Annie, I found the film deeply romantic on some levels...its just that the romance is not the obvious kind of romance that we are usually treated too in our films...but there was some chemistry between them...I am referring to both the actors and the characters here!