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Post by dancelover on Mar 8, 2014 17:30:13 GMT
per Boxofficeindia, Highway earned 21 crore the First Week, only 5 the Second, total 26 in two weeks. BOI predicts 28 crore total.
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Post by dancelover on Apr 25, 2014 15:12:20 GMT
BoxOfficeIndia is now rating Highway a "Flop" which still makes it the 7th-best so far this year, ahead of Dedh Ishqiya.
Koimoi is rating it "Average" = broke even.
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Post by newbiefan on May 14, 2014 17:15:20 GMT
I had seen the TV version of this movie and not liked it much, so I wasn't expecting to love this film, and it turns out that my instincts were right. Alia Bhatt was very good in the heavy duty emotional scenes, but in her chirpy avatar she came across as slightly daft, like she doesn't fully appreciate how precarious her position is, what grave danger her captors/friends are in and she is a spoilt little rich brat playing "house" and taking a tour of exotic rural India, with romantic notions of a simple life in the mountains stuck in her head, never acknowledging the difficulties and deprivations such a life might entail. It does not help that she has a childish face and a voice to match, so the spoilt princess effect is heightened. Randeep Hooda as the hard man is much more consistent as a character, and his performance is very good, with no false notes. Alia's transition from being utterly scared of her captors to being friendly and overly chatty seemed abrupt to me, and within the film it didn't make sense that she should care so much for Hooda's character, who was always gruff and physically abusive to her, rather than that other guy who danced with her and was nice and gentle and genuinely concerned for her welfare. Also, in the end, where we see Alia has opened some sort of fruit packing facility in the mountains, it is not clear where she got the funds to start such an operation. Don't tell me she got help from her rich daddy after walking out from his house empty handed as the earlier scenes depict.
Now for the positives- the music is good and well used, the visuals are really nice, and the performances (barring Alia's inconsistent turn) were spot on.
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Post by dancelover on May 20, 2014 19:14:32 GMT
BOI has upgraded its ranking to "Below Average" which is one level above Flop, and two levels above Disaster. D BoxOfficeIndia is now rating Highway a "Flop" which still makes it the 7th-best so far this year, ahead of Dedh Ishqiya. Koimoi is rating it "Average" = broke even. D
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Post by Andrew-Kenneth on May 20, 2014 22:19:30 GMT
(...) Also, in the end, where we see Alia has opened some sort of fruit packing facility in the mountains, it is not clear where she got the funds to start such an operation. Don't tell me she got help from her rich daddy after walking out from his house empty handed as the earlier scenes depict. (...) Well, I just watched this film and it never struck me that Alia opened her own factory. Just that, being an educated girl, she's employed there as a supervisor instead of as a manual laborer.
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Post by ShantiSal on May 21, 2014 8:30:35 GMT
(...) Also, in the end, where we see Alia has opened some sort of fruit packing facility in the mountains, it is not clear where she got the funds to start such an operation. Don't tell me she got help from her rich daddy after walking out from his house empty handed as the earlier scenes depict. (...) Well, I just watched this film and it never struck me that Alia opened her own factory. Just that, being an educated girl, she's employed there as a supervisor instead of as a manual laborer. That's the impression I had as well, Andrew-Kenneth. And I think the 'nice' man/captor was a bit creepy and menacing. I think he wanted to take advantage of her...
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Post by newbiefan on May 21, 2014 16:42:06 GMT
(...) Also, in the end, where we see Alia has opened some sort of fruit packing facility in the mountains, it is not clear where she got the funds to start such an operation. Don't tell me she got help from her rich daddy after walking out from his house empty handed as the earlier scenes depict. (...) Well, I just watched this film and it never struck me that Alia opened her own factory. Just that, being an educated girl, she's employed there as a supervisor instead of as a manual laborer. I went back and rewatched this part and I think you are right.
I've thought about this film some more and I think what bothers me is that she has such a big problem with the abuse she suffered at the hands of Shukla uncle, but apparently none at all with what she suffered at the hands of Mahabir and his gang. Child sexual abuse is no joke (I know because I've been subjected to it myself), but being kidnapped, gagged, bound, slapped and dragged by the hair sounds far worse to me. I've lived through sexual abuse and have a pretty normal life now, but I imagine I'd be far more damaged and paranoid if I'd ever been kidnapped at gun point. Is it that easy to overlook what Mahabir and company have done, to view them as liberators rather than captors? What would have happened if Mahabir hadn't taken a shine to Veera? Would he have sold her into prostitution? Would Veera still be OK with Mahabir if that had come to pass?
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