My Review of Udaan

 

BEAUTIFUL!

I have never been interested in watching Hindi films frankly because I just don't understand that language that fluently. But, I guess in May 2008, I watched a movie called "Black Friday”, a movie based on the 1993 Mumbai blasts and was completely bowled over it. The director of the movie was Mr Anurag Kashyap. The only reason for me watching “Udaan” was because it was from the production house of Anurag Kashyap.

The movie begins by showcasing four mischievous school students who escape from the hostel at night in order to watch a B-grade movie. They succeed in attaining their goal but end up getting caught by their hostel warden in a hilarious manner and results in them being expelled from the school.

One of the students, Rohan (played by Rajat Barmecha), after his expulsion, sets off to his native place Jamshedpur. He is welcomed to the city by a strict disciplinarian and an oppressive father Bhairav (Roy) and finds to his bewilderment, an young brother Arjun residing in his house (Rohan never knew off Arjun because he had not come to the city for eight years).

Rohan aspires to be a writer and a novelist but is forced to work in Bhairav’s factory and do his engineering course in correspondence.  Amidst all this chaos, Rohan manages to find some happiness by stealthily taking his dad’s car and having a booze in the city’s bars.

Slowly but surely, Rohan begins to look after Arjun with care and takes over the responsibility as an elder brother. The manner in which Rohan narrates stories to Arjun and the patients and doctors at a hospital needs a special mention.

Rohan’s anger against Bhairav reaches a high when he reveals his plans of tying the knot with yet another woman. What does Rohan do to attain his ambitions forms the rest of this well-written, beautifully-crafted movie.

The first thing that struck me while watching the movie was the music by Amit Trivedi. The songs and the BGM are extremely pleasant and do not slacken the pace of the movie. The BGM in the chasing sequence between Rohan and Bhairav is definitely the highlight of the movie.

The director, Vikramaditya Motwane really deserves a pat on his back for writing a humble script without inserting any commercial ingredients. This is a movie to be watched by movie buffs who yearn for high-quality Indian cinema.