Highway (1995 film)

Highway is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Jayaraaj, produced by Prem Prakash, and written by Sab John. The film stars Suresh Gopi and Bhanupriya with Vijayaraghavan, Janardhanan and Biju Menon in supporting roles. The film's original songs were composed by S. P. Venkatesh, while cinematography was handled by P. Sukumar.[1]

Highway
Pre-release poster
Directed byJayaraaj
Screenplay bySab John
Story byJayaraaj
Produced byPrem Prakash
StarringSuresh Gopi
Banupriya
Vijayaraghavan
Janardhanan
Sukumari
CinematographyP. Sukumar
Edited byB. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music byS. P. Venkatesh
Production
company
Heyday Films
Distributed byCentury Release
Release date
  • 3 March 1995 (1995-03-03) (India)
Running time
146 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

The film follows Sreedhar Prasad (Gopi), who is a RAW officer assigned with the task of investigating a bomb blast that killed 30 innocent college students. The blast occurs in the outskirts of the city and near a township called Wintergreen. He disguises himself under the codename Mahesh Aravind to bring the people behind the blast to justice.[2]

The film released on 3 May 1995 to positive reviews. The film was a commercial success and ran for 100 days. It went on to become a blockbuster at the box office. The film was an even greater success in Andhra Pradesh, were it created a massive hype even before it was released. It was dubbed into Telugu and was a box office hit in Andhra Pradesh, like the previous Telugu dubbed movies of Suresh Gopi.[3]

Plot

Sreedhar Prasad is a RAW officer assigned with the task of investigating a bomb blast that killed 30 innocent college students. He operates under the name Mahesh Aravind, a planter from Udumbanchola and chooses a township Wintergreen as his temporary residence during the course of the investigation. Meera, a resident of the same township, falls in love with Mahesh and wishes to marry him. Mahesh establishes a friendly relation with the Assi. Commissioner of Police Mr. George Alexander, who was the official in charge of the criminal investigation. As the investigation proceeds, it is understood that the bomb blast was connected with a chain of crimes that happened in the area including the missing of a scientist Guhan Menon from Baddapur space research organization (Who is later revealed to be killed). It is revealed that Shankar Dev Rana, an established businessman and educationist in the common front is actually a traitor and drug lord in his parallel life. The rest of the story revolves around how Sreedhar Prasad and his subordinate Moorthy solves the cases and wins against the "great" Shankar Dev Rana and his gang of "pungis".

Cast

Music
Highway
Soundtrack album by
S. P. Venkatesh
GenreFilm soundtrack
Length22:56
LabelMagnasound[4]
Sony Music India[5]

The soundtrack album was composed by S. P. Venkatesh for the lyrics penned by Gireesh Puthenchery.[6]

TrackSong TitleSinger(s)Length
1Dolo DolakkuK. S. Chithra, Mano4:53
2Oru Thari KasthooriSwarnalatha, Chorus5:15
3Kikkili KiliMalgudi Subha, Sangeethaa-Sangeetha Sajith4:07
4Kunji KurumbinK. S. Chithra, Chorus4:51
5AdipoliSuresh Peters3:49

Box office

The film was a commercial success in Kerala and also in Andhra Pradesh. According to producer Khader Hassan, it created hype in Andhra Pradesh even before release due to the previous success of Suresh Gopi's dubbed films, and that after the success of Highway, many older Malayalam movies in which Suresh Gopi appeared in supporting roles too were marketed in the Tamil and the Telugu.[3]

Sequel

A sequel to the film titled Highway 2 has been announced.[7]

References
  1. Aravind, C. V. (2 May 2018). "'Bhayanakam' director Jayaraj, Malayalam cinema's non-conformist who treads his own path". The News Minute.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "ഹൈവേ". M3DB.COM. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  3. "Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema". OnManorama.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Highway Audio CD". India Town Gifts.
  5. "Highway (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". Apple Music.
  6. "Highway (1995) - MSIDb". Malayalasangeetham.info.
  7. Gandhi, Mohak (26 June 2022). "Highway 2: Suresh Gopi, Jayaraj reunite for sequel of superhit film; Check all about upcoming mystery-thriller". NewsroomPost. Retrieved 5 July 2022.

Highway at IMDb

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