Goa’s liberation struggle forms the central narrative of the yet another Bollywood film (‘Pukar’, 1983), starring Bachchan in the lead role along with Randhir Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra (who plays another Goan, Jack Braganza, in ‘Bobby’) and Tina Munim, but, again, it struggled in the box-office. It did, however, pick up a couple of awards, including the National Awards for Most Promising Newcomer for the Big B, who, in the film, famously declares under a Portuguese soldier’s bayonet, “Hum Hindustani rengte nahin hain” (“We Indians don’t crawl”).

Hangal and Jalal Agha played the lead roles in ‘Saat Hindustani’, but it didn’t quite set the box-office registers ringing. Utpal Dutt, the Malayalam cinema veteran Madhu, A.K. Loosely based on ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ (1943), the film was directed by the writer-auteur Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, who, incidentally, wrote ‘Bobby’ and a number of other Raj Kapoor movies. The low-budget film (Big B reportedly was paid a lordly sum of Rs 5,000 for it!) was about six Indians from different parts of the country who joined a Goan freedom fighter and roused nationalist sentiments in the colony by hoisting the Indian Tricolour on Portuguese forts and police stations. India’s smallest state, and comedy-action director Rohit Shetty’s favourite shooting location, made its maiden appearance in a Bollywood film with Amitabh Bachchan’s 1969 debut movie, ‘Saat Hindustani’. Maybe not.Mumbai– In the popular imagination, ‘Bobby’ was the original ‘Goan’ film, but it was filmed everywhere but Goa - from Gulmarg to Raj Kapoor’s farmhouse on the Pune-Solapur highway. maybe this feeling is just a passing phase. Maybe the Highway will not really change her. She does not want to go back but she also doesn’t want to reach where he is taking her. It is in this captivity that she, for the first time, feels free. Gradually, a strange bond begins to develop between the victim and the oppressor. But as the days pass by, the scenery changes, the light changes, the sun sets and rises and the air changes, she feels that she has changed as well. He will do whatever it takes to see this through. For him sending her back is not an option. His links in the corridors of power make ransom out of the question. The girl is a big industrialist’s daughter.

Suddenly, her life is swung away from the brocade and jewelery of marriage to the harsh brutality of abduction. They are about to get married in four days. A city girl – young, full of life – is on the highway at night. Starring: Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Durgesh Kumar, Arjun Malhotra Watch Highway 2014 Full Hindi Movie Free Online

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