Highway

On a drive toward Darjeeling, Ashmin Kapoor and his wife Sabitri decide to treat the trip as a strange, unscripted game. They shed familiar roles and assume new identities, testing how well they know each other by acting as if they barely know one another. The car becomes a quiet stage where glances, silences, and carefully spoken lines reveal the undercurrents of a marriage. As the landscape slips by, casual conversations give way to moments that feel charged and uncertain, nudging the couple to confront what drew them together and what has faded. The boundaries between reality and performance blur, inviting the audience to watch a relationship negotiate its own truth without easy resolutions. The result is a restrained drama that asks what remains after the masks come off.

Released in 2014, Highway was directed by Sudipto Chattopadhyay. The film is presented as an original Bengali drama rather than an adaptation, with Parambrata Chatterjee starring as Ashmin and Koel Mallick as Sohini.

Box office data for Highway 2014 is not publicly reported, reflecting its limited regional release rather than a wide national or international rollout.

Critics have noted the restrained performances and the way the film centers on memory, trust and the space between appearance and reality. The road side by side with a pretend intimacy becomes a lens on a couple's evolving connection, where small gestures expose larger truths, and silence can speak louder than words. Its balance of restraint and suggestion leaves room for audience interpretation.

Cultural impact: the film might not have dominated screens, but it sits within a strand of Bengali cinema that treats private relationships with quiet intensity. The performances by Parambrata Chatterjee and Koel Mallick stand out in a setting that favors implication over exposition, and the focus on a couple testing their bond in a confined space echoes in later films that blur romance with psychology. Highway adds to that tradition without shouting for attention.