Imtiaz Ali's deliberate attempt to keep the audience not go astray while narrating the emotional purging of two wounded souls, focusing high on location photography gives you a jet lag and tire you big time. The movie is a case of Stockholm syndrome but the audience do not find it logical and engaging enough to accept the premise for the syndrome. And also the establishment of the motif for the protagonist to seek freedom should have been anything but sexual abuse (lets move the fuck on). Highway... though it is serene and has a soul (apparently).. it is bumpy and messy and tiring.
There is a scene in Highway in which Alia Bhatt's character, Veera, breaks out into guttural screams amidst a gathering of immaculately dressed family members, who sit stunned and affronted in their stinking rich opulence. They are all extremely disconcerted when they are confronted by the unsettling intensity with which this young girl rejects everything that they think they have blessed her with - a swanky house and more money than she could ever spend in her entire life. They are perturbed that somewhere along the line, when they hadn't been watchful and had let her slip away, she had acqui....