Bhatt, on the other hand, is increasingly fresh and carefree as she enjoys her newfound life outside the gilded cage. His perpetually imploring look wears thin quickly. Wearing bad hair, rough clothes and a plaid blanket over his shoulders, Hooda is quite the criminal element, but disappointingly low on his usual charm. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014’s Most Anticipated Movies: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past,’ ‘Mockingjay,’ ‘Spider-Man 2’ For her part, Veera declares she’s never felt freer or happier than riding with him and wishes her kidnapping would never end. The gruff Mahabir pretends to turn a cold shoulder to her bratty charm, while he’s secretly falling for the girl. It’s hard for the audience not to feel the same way, especially when she starts hugging trees and chatting to herself out loud in bad improv. Tied up and gagged in the back of a colorful truck, Veera at first seems in grave danger, but she soon turns the situation around to a Ransom of Red Chief scenario in which her unpredictable, self-centered behavior drives everyone to distraction, or at least leaves the gang open-mouthed. Trying to stay one step ahead of the law, he takes her on a cross-country trek down India’s many and varied highways, past breathtaking views of Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, the deserts of Rajasthan and the Himalayas. The gang seems more dismayed than she does when they discover they have a dangerous VIP with connections in high places on their hands, yet their stubborn leader Mahabir Bhatti (Hooda) refuses to let her go. One can only sympathize with the helpless groom-to-be as he calls out to her angrily, “I warned you!” Immature and self-willed, she forces her poor fiance to take her on a secret drive in the middle of the night to “get some air.” A few minutes later they stumble onto a robbery at a gas station and Veera is taken hostage. Veera Tripathy (Bhatt), the spoiled scion of an influential Delhi family, is on the verge of getting married.
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Still Ali has a deft hand in creating a fantasy world based on the classical Sita-Ravana model, and gives Bhatt free rein to project herself with unabashed teenage appeal, so even if the box office is unlikely to measure up to Jab We Met and his big hit Love Aaj Kal, it should nonetheless be respectable.Ī passable festival film only in the sense of the exotic locations and the current taste for India, it looked a little odd bowing in the Berlin Panorama before theatrical release in India and the U.S. The love story between a desperado and a beautiful rich girl he accidentally kidnaps isn’t remotely believable, especially as enacted by box office draws Randeep Hooda ( Jism 2) and 20-year-old Alia Bhatt ( Student of the Year), and watching a silly girl ooze Stockholm syndrome after the horrific gang rapes that have made headlines in India leaves a queasy aftertaste.
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Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali drifts away from his high-payback comfort zone of romantic comedy played by big stars to experiment with a romantic drama/road movie in Highway.
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