Udaan

• Just finished watching udaan, though it was on my to watch list since
long. I had heard about the movie , a boy returns from hostel to home
,tries to adjust to life , to an authoritarian father , to an unknown
brother. I suspected it to be another lakshya, 3 idiots or wakeup sid
with good things thrown in, some speech by our hero and a happy ending.
Well ending is not sad but it is uncertain and frightening. • His long
stay in hostel and how his friends wish for a life outside hostel
reminded me of many of my friends who were in hostels since their
school time. Most of them were there because they were from villages
and for lack of good educational facilities they were living in big
towns and hostels. But I have seen quite a few boys who were
essentially shunned by their parents and what harm it does to their
psyche. • Character of father is a case study character. Believe it or
not we were told with pride by people around us how their father used
to beat them for slightest of pretext, how one of my seniors used to
hide all his cricket bats before his dad came in home else he would be
beaten by them, how parents of many of my aunts and uncles had no idea
in which class their wards were and so on and on. As a society we
condone this behavior and cruelty towards kids. • Film captures local
environ of Jamshedpur beautifully, I never knew city was so beautiful.
Bihari tone of characters is very authentic, not clownish like other
movies but not snobbish either. • Though his college seniors who are
supposed to rag him and drinking scene with those guys seem to be
forced • It is also interesting that no neighbor or relative other than
his uncle is shown • Acting by all three leading men are superb. Ronit
roy who is shattered from inside and has converted himself into a demon
unknowingly. • Initial poem is very good which he recites to his friend
in school, and so is background track in the movie. • It somehow
reminded me of movies like being cyrus or ek choti si love story. Style
of movie telling is erringly similar , stories are told from point of
view of protagonist, lonely childhood is captured effectively.