Why Highway will probably never make 100 crores and why that actually will be a great thing!
Let's get the fact straight : 'Highway' will probably never make 100 crores - a standard that has increasingly come to signify the pre-eminence of quantity over quality in the Hindi film industry. A quote from a Firstpost article states this fact subtly and so aptly - "Imtiaz Ali's best work till date might also be his least successful film." 'Highway' lends ample credence to Anurag Kashyap's opinion about Imtiaz Ali. When asked on a popular chat show on telly, to pick a quality he feels Ali has which he doesn't - he (Kashyap) replied, "His Sufi romanticism." I could not agree more. There is an other-worldly quality about this film, as it becomes an ethereal painting, a moving poetry in silence, a riveting testament to human emotions and turmoil. 'Highway' has a visceral quality to it. It is gripping, not in the way of an 'edge-of-the-seat' thriller, but it takes control over your heart, it overwhelms and overpowe