Udaan (movie): Little wings to "FLY"

Directed by: Vikramaditya Motwane
Release date: July, 2010

After 8 hours of long journey, 3 large pegs of rum and around 2 am in the morning I watched UDAAN. What attracts me most is the theatrical poster of the movie. A 16-17 year boy sitting confused and all his emotions and fantasies are around him. Everything which a teenage can imagine or desire is written there and why not, it’s written by my all time favorite Anurag Kashyap. I was all set to begin the 2 hours journey of fulfilling dreams. It’s also going to be special because I also have a dream but unfortunately still fighting to achieve it.  

About the story – Fours friends were caught by their warden watching an adult movie in the theater which results to their termination from the school. Rohan came back to his home town Jamshedpur to live with his father. He came to know that he also have a younger brother 8 years old (as his father married again). Rohan wants to be a writer and willing to study Literature but his father forced him to study Engg in morning and work in his Steel factory in the evening. The rest of the film is about the clash of the mindset/ideology between the father and the son, elder brother and younger brother.

As the story was written by Anurag Kashyap, you will expect something mind blowing. We didn’t watch the movie with the mindset that it will be a normal entertainer. We were waiting for the hurricane to blow our minds. However, I believe either the story was normal or it was presented in a very normal manner. You will feel that same scenes were repeated couple of times in the movie. There are no events which will lead to something exciting. The best part of the movie is its ORIGINAL Screenplay. You will love it for sure. Simplicity at its best! May be that’s the reason you will not find the story appealing. But the Screenplay is the back bone of the movie. It’s a slow pace movie and most of movie revolves around 3 characters. The conversation between the father (Ronit Roy) and Rohan is tense (most of the times), however it’s interesting and innocent between Arjun and Rohan. The poems used by Rohan (I guess there are 3-4 in total) are also new and refreshing.

It’s a very simple film about a boy who wants to achieve his dreams. It does not offer any Indian masala to audiences. But still it’s a must watch for the whole family. For parents to understand that sometimes in order to think best for their children they stop thinking what is correct. For teenagers to understand that if you want to achieve what you want than there is no one who can stop you.

Do watch it with your parents or younger brother/sisters.