Highway (1995 film)

Highway is a 1995 Malayalam crime thriller directed by Jayaraaj 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.[1][2]

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

Plot

Sreedhar Prasad (Suresh Gopi) 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 (Bhanupriya), 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 (Janardhanan), 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 (Vijayaraghavan) solves the cases and wins against the "great" Shankar Dev Rana and his gang of "pungis".

Cast

ActorRole
Suresh GopiSreedhar Prasad/Mahesh Aravind (RAW Officer)
VijayaraghavanMoorthy/Unnithaan (RAW Officer)
JanardhananACP George Alexander IPS
BhanupriyaMeera
Eliyas BabuShankar Dev Rana
Biju MenonS.I Pavithran
Jose PrakashKartha (Meera's father)
AugustineIdiyan Sukumaran/Sughbir Hanuman Singh
Kamal GaurHenchman of Shankar Dev Rana
KunchanVasco
SukumariVasco's mother
Spadikam GeorgeIG
VineethVinod Menon/Apache (One among the students who gets killed in the blast)
Prem PrakashSivanandan

Soundtrack

Music: S. P. Venkatesh, Lyrics: Gireesh Puthenchery.

  • "Adipoli Adipoli Mehbooba" - Suresh Peters
  • "Dolo Dolakku" - Mano, K. S. Chitra
  • "Kikkili Kili" - Sangeethaa-Sangeetha Sajith, Malgudi Subha
  • "Kunji Kurumbin" - K. S. Chitra
  • "Oru Thari Kasthoori" - Swarnalatha, Chorus

References


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