Mumbai: Randeep Hooda is one of those Bollywood actors who has made his mark in Bollywood on his own. Without any godfather, Randeep has reached a point where even many star kids fail to reach. Randeep Hooda has worked in films like Sarabjit, Sultan, Laal Rang, Do Lafzon Ki Kahani and Extraction, for which he received a lot of praise. Randeep was also seen in Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Highway’, in which Alia Bhatt was in the lead role. This film was released in 2014, in which the work of both Randeep and Alia was highly praised, but you will be surprised to know that despite having tremendous chemistry onscreen, there was no communication between the two behind the camera.
The story of Highway revolves around the life of a girl, Veera, who is kidnapped by a gangster just a day before her wedding day. Instead of fearing for her life, Veera falls in love with her kidnapper and finds a new meaning in her life. After she gets kidnapped, she discovers what freedom really means.
But, Humans of Bombay In a conversation with Randeep Hooda, Randeep Hooda told that Alia Bhatt was scared of him on the sets of Highway. The actor said- ‘When we shot Highway, I did not talk to Alia for 20-25 days. She was that girl from Juhu who had not seen much of the world. He didn’t have much exposure. So, to maintain her fear of my character…I made sure that she remained afraid of me. I never talked to him. She didn’t even come to sit near me. This is the effect we wanted in the film.
Earlier, Imtiaz Ali had revealed that he drew the story of his 2014 road drama Highway from the people he met and the places he visited. The film was shot mostly with handheld cameras and a crude script, in different states of uncertainty. The characters in Highway were constantly changing and the filmmaker decided not to rely on pre-written dialogue and situations. He only had the story in mind, but the film was shot almost without a script. Imtiaz only knew what the purpose of a particular scene was, but he did not have complete dialogues to give to the film’s leads Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 22, 2024, 09:30 IST