Amit Bhatia of ABP News gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and said that "Pune Highway is the kind of thriller Indian cinema needs more of—smart, subtle, and soaked in suspense.Read at source
Pune Highway 2025 
Synopsis
Pune Highway
Pune Highway is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna and Rahul da Cunha, and produced by Rahul da Cunha and Seema Mohapatra. The film stars Amit Sadh, Jim Sarbh, Anuvab Pal, Manjari Fadnis, Ketaki Narayan, and Sudeep Modak. It premiered at the 55th IFFI 2024, and was theatrically released in India on 23 May 2025. It began streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 4 July 2025.
- Director
- Rahul da Cunha, Bugs Bhargava Krishna
- Release
- 23 May 2025
- Studio
- Drop D Films, Ten Years Younger Productions
- Run time
- 126 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
3 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Mixed
Critics' aggregate for Pune Highway is 60/100 from Amit Bhatia (ABP News) and Devesh Sharma (Filmfare) and Dhaval Roy (The Times of India).
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 4 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Positive 3
Devesh Sharma of Filmfare gave 3 stars out of 5 and said that "Ultimately, Pune Highway is a film of conflicting ambitions.Read at source
Dhaval Roy of The Times of India rated 2.5/5 stars and said that "Pune Highway holds tremendous potential in its story arc and character development, it falls short of delivering a truly compelling experience.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 23 May 2025
- Run time
- 126 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Rahul da Cunha, Bugs Bhargava Krishna
- Studio
- Drop D Films, Ten Years Younger Productions
- Distributor
- Zee Studios, Cinépolis India
Trivia
- The film stars Amit Sadh, Jim Sarbh, Anuvab Pal, Manjari Fadnis, Ketaki Narayan, and Sudeep Modak.
- Shooting for the film began in November 2022 and was completed by January 2023.
- The movie premiered at the 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa in November 2024.
- The theatrical release in India took place on 23 May 2025, followed by streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 4 July 2025.
- Amit Sadh described the project as a transition from an award-winning play to a drama-thriller screenplay.
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