Like the characters in his movies, Imtiaz Ali was in the realm of uncertainty while shooting ‘Highway‘ through six different states of India with a handheld camera and a raw script.
One thing that is very unique to Imtiaz’s films is that his characters are mostly in transit and he has taken his love for travel to the next level in ‘Highway’.
Imtiaz says he let the places and people they visited to shape the story further rather than relying on pre-written dialogues and situations.
“I had a story in my mind but we shot the film almost without a script. I knew what the purpose of a particular scene was but I did not have finished dialogues for it. So, these places influenced the script a lot. I let the story be rather than imposing myself on it,” Imtiaz told us in an interview.
Not having much of a script was challenging but liberating also at the same time for the ‘Rockstar’ director.
“When you don’t have written dialogues, you have to come up with something that is not only interesting to watch but connects to a particular scene. It should flow like a journey. I often thought ‘I hope I will be able to come up with something’. Those insecurities were there.”Read more on msn.
Imtiaz Ali :I had a story but no script for 'Highway'
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