Highway (1995 film)

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Highway
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DVD Cover
Directed byJayaraaj
Written byScreenplay:
Sab John
Story:
Jayaraaj
Produced byPrem Prakash
StarringSuresh Gopi
Banupriya
Vijayaraghavan
Sukumari
Cinematography
Edited byB. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music byS. P. Venkatesh
Gireesh Puthenchery (Lyrics)
Production
company
Distributed byCentury Release
Release date
  • March 3, 1995 (1995-03-03) (India)
Running time
146 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Highway is a 1995 Indian action crime thriller directed by Jayaraaj[1] and written by Sab John. The movie was produced by Prem Prakash starring Suresh Gopi and Bhanupriya in the lead roles. The film was a commercial success and ran for 100 days. It was dubbed into Telugu and was a box office hit like the previous Telugu dubbed movies of Suresh Gopi.

Plot[]

Sreedhar Prasad is a Research and Analysis Wing 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 organisation (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[]

Actor Role
Suresh Gopi Sreedhar Prasad/Mahesh Aravind (RAW Officer)
Vijayaraghavan Moorthy/Unnithaan (RAW Officer)
Janardhanan ACP George Alexander IPS
Bhanupriya Meera
Eliyas Babu Shankar Dev Rana
Biju Menon S.I Pavithran
Jose Prakash Kartha (Meera's father)
Augustine Sukumaran/Sukhbir (Hanuman) Singh
Kamal Gaur Henchman of Shankar Dev Rana
Kunchan Vasco
Sukumari Vasco's mother
Spadikam George IG
Vineeth Vinod Menon/Apache (One among the students who gets killed in the blast)
Prem Prakash Sivanandan
Silk Smitha Item number

Music[]

Highway
Soundtrack album by
S. P. Venkatesh
GenreFilm soundtrack
Length22:56
LabelMagnasound[2]
Sony Music India[3]

The soundtrack album was composed by S. P. Venkatesh for the lyrics penned by Gireesh Puthenchery.[4]

Track Song Title Singer(s) Length
1 Dolo Dolakku K. S. Chithra, Mano 4:53
2 Oru Thari Kasthoori Swarnalatha, Chorus 5:15
3 Kikkili Kili Malgudi Subha, 4:07
4 Kunji Kurumbin K. S. Chithra, Chorus 4:51
5 Adipoli Suresh Peters 3:49

Box office[]

The film was a blockbuster. It had created a massive hype in Andhra Pradesh even before it hit the theaters. 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 film industries.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Aravind, C. V. (2 May 2018). "'Bhayanakam' director Jayaraj, Malayalam cinema's non-conformist who treads his own path". The News Minute.
  2. ^ "Highway Audio CD". India Town Gifts.
  3. ^ "Highway (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". Apple Music.
  4. ^ "Highway (1995) - MSIDb". Malayalasangeetham.info.
  5. ^ "Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema". OnManorama.

External links[]

Highway at IMDb


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