ALI'S FILM SENSE ESCAPING THE REALITY Imtiaz’s characters are ambitious and don’t give in to societal standards. He gives us characters who have embraced pain but are trying hard to detach themselves of the harsh reality. These characters portray their true self when they are away from everyone. Be it Geet, Ved, Jordan, Veera- every character is in a place that suffocates them and later runs away from it. This is usually how the character's arc progresses in his movies. In Jab We Met, Aditya leaves everything behind and gets on a train, Geet literally runs away from her house to Manali . In Highway, Veera feels suffocated in the house and the city and finds her peace on the roads. Towards the end of the film, she says, "Main hamesha kehti thi na, ki main bhaag jaaungi yahan se, mujhe sheher mein nahin rehna”. In Tamasha. Ved travels to Corsica, where he gets to be himself, away from the product manager job he does not like. In Harry Met Sejal, Harry has also run away ...
