Udaan

My rating: 3 and a half stars
Starring: Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor and Aayan Boradia
Rohan (Rajat Barmecha) is 17 and has been in a boarding school for a long time. He hasn’t seen his father for 8 years of that time who is essentially an authoritarian. He has been expelled from school for a prank and has been told to go home. At home he finds out that he has a half brother who is 6; his dad married again after his mother passed away. Rohan is a writer, a fact that is scoffed off at by his father. He is forced to work in his steel factory and study engineering. He fights for his life in his own boyish ways. The story is of him struggling with the misplaced authority and finding a way in life on his own.
Anurag Kashyap does it again. With Udaan, he has come up with a refreshing story which is not really unknown to people but still manages to pluck a string somewhere in the heart. The movie is very simple yet equally soulful. The poems recited by Rohan are beautiful and the fact that the actor has good voice only adds to their melancholy effect. The thing against the movie is the lack of synchromization between the story line and the presentation. There are a few scenes which i felt were either incomplete, needed more time or absent altogether. On the whole, a movie which can be watched over and over again just to hear the poetry.
the movie is a definite no-no to be enjoyed in the company of popcorn. it is serious and deepply emotional.