Highway is a film of that escape which all of us yearn for. It is an attempt to see our own reflections in today’s time.
Acting
Girish Kulkarni's restrained chaos is masterclass territory.
Direction
Umesh Kulkarni finds poetry in Mumbai's concrete sprawl.
Writing
Conversations that feel stolen from real life.
Director
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the Marathi New Wave that rejected Bollywood spectacle for intimate urban stories. Kulkarni and Kulkarni (no relation) were already festival darlings.
The film's structure mirrors the Mumbai-Pune Expressway itself—parallel lives that almost touch but rarely intersect, until the toll booth forces confrontation.
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