Sorry, They are not traveling. Its a kidnap where the girl (Alia Bhatt) finds freedom in hostage and the guy (Randeep Hooda) sets himself free from the anger against the rich and privileged class of society. Randeep Hooda is very impressive in his totally deglamorised role as a kidnapper. Director Imtiyaz Ali manages to extract the best out of him. They gave him the right quantum of dialogs, look, body language and clothes (notice the torn sweater and almost half a smile in the whole film). Alia on the other hand is quite disappointing as an actress. It would have been great if the director would have let us know her story without her actually narrating it to the kidnapper. Like does with Randeep. He never told his story to the girl and yet it was conveyed to her. These are the nuances that separates ordinary from extra ordinary.

What works best for us is the highway feel that follows intact throughout the film. We read and heard a lot of reviews mentioning that this film is more like a discovery documentary…. Imtiyaz has shown beautiful Laddakh and India overall and that’s about it …etc etc but we wonder, did they completely miss out on this poignant story, amazing chemistry between the lead pair and the jaw dropping performance by Randeep Hooda?

A. R. Rahman’s music is good but not outstanding and it works for the film. A lot of songs would have distracted the audience from the story. Full marks to director for not keeping the most popular number “Mahi ve” in the film and leaving it for the credits in the end. “Wanna mash up” could have been avoided too. Didn’t do much for the film. “Kahaan hoo main” was the most melodious of all and has an international feel to it.

We had almost no expectations from this film and it turned out to be one of the most fantastic Bollywood films we have watched recently. Though the film is not for masses and it might not enter the 100 Crore club, it’s worth millions for people like us who are big time sucker for quality cinema.