Highway is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language mystery crime thriller film written and directed by K. V. Guhan and, produced by Venkat Talari through Sree Iswarya Lakshmi Movies and Northstar Entertainment.
He travels to Bangalore with his long-time friend Samudram (Satya) to shoot a wedding while, Asha Bharat (Saiyami Kher) and her team are investigating the case of a serial killer named 'D' (Abhishek Banerjee) who kills young girls for his pleasure.
On other side Tulasi (Manasa Radhakrishnan), a young, innocent and beautiful village girl who lives with her mother and works in a dairy farm, decides to travel to Mangalore to escape from her boss torture to marry her and to meet her father who abandoned them, whereas, D kills another girl making him and Asha close to meet distance.
During their journey, Tulasi and Vishnu gets close and began to have feelings for each other but things turn upside down when Vishnu have to urgently leave for Bangalore and drops Tulasi near Mangalore bus to travel by giving her a phone to call him if any emergency and he leaves, but the bus doesn't start, making the passengers to get down.
After a lot of search, Vishnu gets message from the company's driver who finds Tulasi with D in his ambulance and they forward it to him and he shares the same to Asha.
The film ends with Tulasi and Vishnu telling the entire story to media leaving the nation in shock.
After watching Abhishek Banerjee's performance in the Hindi web series Paatal Lok, Guhan cast him for the role of a serial killer.
[7][8] Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India gave a rating of 2 out of 5 and wrote that "Highway is passable fare at best, but given the kind of talent involved in the project, you can’t help but wonder if the story had the potential to be fleshed out better".
[9] Balakrishna Ganeshan of The News Minute also gave same rating and wrote that "Highway sticks true to the crime thriller genre without meandering into unnecessary details or scenes".
[10] Pinkvilla too rated the film 2 out of 5 and stated "Highway is barely clued into the emerging plot devices in the Indian OTT space, especially those concerning crime thrillers, which have long ceased to present obvious formats".
[12] India Today's Roktim Rajpal stated: "Highway had the potential to be a dark and disturbing thriller but it ends up being a damp squib".