Highway (1995 film)
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.
| Highway | |
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| Directed by | Jayaraaj |
| Written by | Screenplay: Sab John Story: Jayaraaj |
| Produced by | Prem Prakash |
| Starring | Suresh Gopi Banupriya Vijayaraghavan Sukumari |
| Cinematography | P. Sukumar |
| Edited by | B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan |
| Music by | S. P. Venkatesh Gireesh Puthenchery (Lyrics) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Century Release |
Release date |
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Running time | 146 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
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
- Suresh Gopi as Sreedhar Prasad/Mahesh Aravind (RAW Officer)
- Vijayaraghavan as Moorthy/Unnithaan (RAW Officer)
- Janardhanan as ACP George Alexander IPS
- Bhanupriya as Meera
- Eliyas Babu as Shankar Dev Rana
- Biju Menon as S.I Pavithran
- Jose Prakash as Kartha (Meera's father)
- Augustine as Sukumaran/Sukhbir (Hanuman) Singh
- Kamal Gaur as Henchman of Shankar Dev Rana
- Kunchan as Vasco
- Sukumari as Vasco's mother
- Spadikam George as IG
- Vineeth as Vinod Menon/Apache (One among the students who gets killed in the blast)
- Prem Prakash as Sivanandan
- Silk Smitha in Item number
Music
| Highway | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Length | 22:56 |
| Label | Magnasound[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, Sangeethaa-Sangeetha Sajith | 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
- 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) - "Highway Audio CD". India Town Gifts.
- "Highway (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". Apple Music.
- "Highway (1995) - MSIDb". Malayalasangeetham.info.
- "Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema". OnManorama.
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