Ali’s story, though, wanders too long and too far, sometimes coming off like a forced mash-up of “It Happened One Night” and “Patty Hearst.” No wonder the film can’t sustain a tone, wavering between realism and Bollywood hokum. (It was shot in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir.) Mr. Yes, as amazed as I was to see this, a person who has no knowledge about mental disorders will tend to believe in the story. In Phobia, the protagonist deals with ‘agoraphobia’- which is the fear of open spaces, and she also starts having ‘premonitions’. The cinematographer Anil Mehta’s lovely, unfussy images ground the film and show us a good bit of India. Movies like Phobia and Bhool Bhulaiya tend to relate a psychiatric disorder to supernaturalism. Solved a couple of RC passages which took like a zillion years each. By the time it was 10 I almost panicked and somehow got down to reading the boring but necessary pages about familiarizing yourself with the Gmat.
PHOBIA HINDI MOVIE CONCEPT MOVIE
If the road seems romantic to Veera (“I don’t want to get to where we’re going”), it’s only a dead end to Mahabir, a poor man on the run. Couldn’t understand a word of the stupid Hindi movie I was watching so didn’t even bother studying.
The fact of the abduction means that a creepiness hovers over the romance, which has other obstacles to overcome, most important the class difference. Her situation aggravates with each passing day and that creates. Also, she is intimated about meeting new people. She begins to fall for the brooding, monosyllabic Mahabir (Randeep Hooda), one of her kidnappers.Īt this point, “Highway” morphs, sort of, into a lighter, slightly more comic film, a road movie with plentiful scenery, some dancing and some yuks. After a traumatic incident, Mahek develops agoraphobia - a fear of public places. “Maybe I’ve lost my mind,” she says, and maybe she has.
The naturalism and violence (and threat of rape) in these scenes make them an uncomfortable prelude to what comes next: a love story. “Where am I?” croons the singer on the soundtrack. She escapes briefly, running herself ragged on a salt flat under a star-speckled sky. Bhatt convincingly shows us the fear in Veera’s eyes and her hopelessness.