Highway (1995 film)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Highway
| image = Highway (1995 film).gif
| caption = DVD cover
| director = [[Jayaraaj]]
| producer = [[Prem Prakash]]
| writer = '''Screenplay:''' [[Sab John]] '''Story:''' Jayaraaj
| starring = [[Suresh Gopi]] [[Banupriya]] [[Vijayaraghavan (actor)|Vijayaraghavan]] [[Sukumari]]
| music = [[S. P. Venkatesh]] [[Gireesh Puthenchery]] (Lyrics)
| cinematography = P. Sukumar
| editing = [[B. Lenin]] [[V. T. Vijayan]]
| studio = [[Heyday Films]]
| distributor = Century
| released = {{Filmdate|1995|3|3|df=y}}
| runtime = 146 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Highway''''' is a [[1995 in film|1995]] [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]] [[crime thriller]] directed by [[Jayaraaj]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aravind |first=C. V. |date=2 May 2018 |title='Bhayanakam' director Jayaraj, Malayalam cinema's non-conformist who treads his own path |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bhayanakam-director-jayaraj-malayalam-cinemas-non-conformist-who-treads-his-own-path-80546 |url-status=live |website=[[The News Minute]]}}</ref> 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 ([[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 (actor)|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 (actor)|Vijayaraghavan]]) solves the cases and wins against the "great" Shankar Dev Rana and his gang of "pungis".

==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Suresh Gopi]] || Sreedhar Prasad/Mahesh Aravind (RAW Officer)
|-
| [[Vijayaraghavan (actor)|Vijayaraghavan]] || Moorthy/Unnithaan (RAW Officer)
|-
| [[Janardhanan (actor)|Janardhanan]] || ACP George Alexander IPS
|-
| [[Bhanupriya]] || Meera
|-
| Eliyas Babu|| Shankar Dev Rana
|-
| [[Biju Menon]] || S.I Pavithran
|-
| [[Jose Prakash]] || Kartha (Meera's father)
|-
| [[Augustine (actor)|Augustine]] || Sukumaran/Sukhbir (Hanuman) Singh
|-
| Kamal Gaur|| Henchman of Shankar Dev Rana
|-
| [[Kunchan (actor)|Kunchan]] || Vasco
|-
| [[Sukumari]] || Vasco's mother
|-
| [[Spadikam George]] || [[Inspector-general of police#India|IG]]
|-
| [[Vineeth]] || Vinod Menon/Apache (One among the students who gets killed in the blast)
|-
| [[Prem Prakash]] || Sivanandan
|}

==Soundtrack==

{{Infobox album
| name = Highway
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[S. P. Venkatesh]]
| genre = [[Film soundtrack]]
| length = {{Duration|22:56}}
| label = [[Magnasound Records|Magnasound]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Highway Audio CD |url=http://www.indiatowngifts.com/aksharam-manikya-chempazhuka-highway-president-magnasound-omi-cd-malayalam-made-in-canada-1995/ |website=India Town Gifts}}</ref> [[Sony Music India]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Highway (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/highway-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/657377126 |website=[[Apple Music]]}}</ref>

}}

The soundtrack album was composed by [[S. P. Venkatesh]] for the lyrics penned by [[Gireesh Puthenchery]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Highway (1995) - MSIDb |url=https://en.msidb.org/m.php?41 |website=Malayalasangeetham.info}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Track !! Song Title !! Singer(s) !! Length
|-

| 1 || ''Dolo Dolakku'' || [[K. S. Chithra]], [[Mano (singer)|Mano]] || 4:53

|-

| 2 || ''Oru Thari Kasthoori'' || [[Swarnalatha]], [[Choir|Chorus]] || 5:15

|-

| 3 || ''Kikkili Kili'' || [[Malgudi Subha]], [[Sangeethaa-Sangeetha Sajith (singer)|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 (entertainment)|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 cinema|Tamil]] and the [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] film industries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2020/06/28/suresh-gopi-supreme-star-telugu-cinema.html |url-status=live |website=[[Malayala Manorama|OnManorama]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{IMDb title|0353534|Highway}}
{{Jayaraj}}

[[Category:1990s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Films about the Research and Analysis Wing]]
[[Category:Indian crime thriller films]]
[[Category:1995 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1995 crime thriller films]]

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