So personally, I am not a fan of either Alia Bhatt or Randeep Hooda. But Imitiaz Ali? Yes, I am. After delivering wonderful movies like Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal, it was clearly appalling to see him take up on a script like Highway. I mean who in the right mind would want to direct that movie? The locales were beautiful, he places picturesque; but where was the story, my dear director? Sure, it is too late to criticize Highway since it has already become an old successful movie but I couldn’t help it.
Alia Bhatt has become a star overnight, of course and she should really thank Imitiaz Ali for it. But I couldn’t help but notice that Alia Bhatt’s character was strikingly similar to Kareena Kapoor’s Geet in Jab We Met. and Alia Bhatt is an outspoken fan of Kareena Kapoor. but I am shocked, to say the least, that Imitiaz Ali would plagiarize his own movie. This was not expected. Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery. Why would one want to imitate a character from his previous movie? Plainly, to get attention. But enough about this now.
Coming back to Ms. Alia Bhatt. What was she thinking doing a movie like this? What was Randeep Hooda thinking? I so wish to be in a parallel universe where this movie never went on floors and never reached the cinemas across the country. Until then, I think I will have to live with the fact that a certain section of the film industry thought it right to make a movie wherein a rich upper class Delhi girl falls in love with the truck driver. Sigh.
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