Pune Highway(2024)
Hindi128 mins
Pune Highway (2024) is a 128-minute Hindi film directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna. Starring Aniket Kelkar, Abhishek Krishnan and Himanshu Balpande. With an audience rating of 6.0/10, Pune Highway stands as one of the notable Hindi releases of 2024.
Director:Bugs Bhargava Krishna
Mood:
darkemotionalsuspenseful
Where to watch:
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Prime Video
- Theatrical Release
- 23 November 2024
- Director
- Bugs Bhargava Krishna
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- GudVibe Rating
- 6.0/10
Storyline
Three childhood friends from Mumbai are shaken when a dead body is discovered far away in a lake. This event impacts each of them differently. As they struggle to hold their friendship together, a harsh truth closes in on them all.
“Three friends. One secret. The truth is catching up.”
Film Details
6.0Rating
128Minutes
HindiLanguage
ACertificate
Release Date23 November 2024
Parental Guide
Violence
High
Language
Moderate
Sex / Nudity
Moderate
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
High
Vibe & Tags
Mood
darkemotionalsuspenseful
Themes
friendshipcorruptionsurvivaljustice
Tonegritty
Pacingslow-burn
Complexityrequires-attention
Audiencemultiplex
Best Withfriends
Violence3
Emotion4
Humor2
Rewatchability3
Reviews & Ratings
Your Rating
6/10Rating
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Cast & Crew
#1
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Aniket KelkarActor
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Abhishek KrishnanActor
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H
Himanshu BalpandeActor
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B
Bugs Bhargava KrishnaDirector
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D
Deep MetkarCrew
→Trivia
- The film's title refers to the real-life Pune-Mumbai Expressway, a key location where the story's central mystery unfolds.
- Director Bugs Bhargava Krishna is also a noted casting director, and he cast several first-time actors in supporting roles for this film.
- Principal photography took place extensively in Mumbai and along the actual highway, using guerrilla-style filming for some tense sequences.
- The script was workshopped for over a year with the three lead actors to build their on-screen friendship naturally.
- The film's score uses ambient sounds recorded from the highway and lakeside to create its unsettling atmosphere.
- It had a very limited theatrical release, focusing instead on a direct-to-digital premiere strategy.
- The lake scenes were shot at a reservoir near Lonavala, a hill station between Mumbai and Pune.