Udaan Hindi Blu Raywith English Subtitles Stg:Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Aayan Boradia, Ram Kapoor, Manjot Singh Director :Vikramaditya Motwane Music Director :Amit Trivedi Producer :Anurag Kashyap, Ronnie ScrewvalaPlot:Teenager Rohan ( Rajat Barmecha) is thrown out from his high profile boarding school with his bunch of friends after the truant group is caught watching a C-grade smut film, off campus. Rohan is forced to return to his dad, Ronit Roy, who lives in Jamshedpur and has been an absentee figure in Rohan's life for the past eight years.Is Rohan's return a home-coming of sorts, one that reunites him with his long-lost father, or is it a coming-of-age, where the teenager must learn to cope with the harsh realities of life. Like, a disciplinarian, uncommunicative, emotionally-blunted dad and a scared step-brother....Udaan comes with a reputation. It showcased India at Cannes this year and reportedly won a lot of applause. Big question? Does debutant director Vikramaditya Motwane's film live up to its hype? It does. It does. Udaan is unconventional Bollywood at its biting best. The film is a moody, introspective and ekdum different look at teenage angst: an issue that has never been given the importance it deserves in Hindi cinema which has by and large relegated the 16-something story to teeny-bopper rolls-in-the-haystack romances.But Rajat Barmecha's Rohan isn't your run-of-the mill Hindi movie teenager. He has more substantial (read realistic) problems than to find a girlfriend and discover sex, even though his dad does ask him -- in a delightful sequence -- sex kiya ki nahin?! For him, the issues are mostly existential....Like, how does he cope with a father who seems to be a clone of Hitler; how does he pursue his dreams of becoming a writer, when disciplinarian dad insists he must join him in the factory; how does he learn to love a step brother he doesn't even know; how does he get back to a family that doesn't exist; and how does he adjust to a small town with its uneventful life and its middle-class morality.Udaan is essentially a performance-based film that scores mostly in the characters it dabbles with. Ronit Roy's cold and emotionally stunted father-figure, bogged down by middle-class fears and obsessions about a `secure' no-nonsense future for his son is actually quite familiar. Even as Rajat Barmecha's dreamy, rebellious teenager who wants to escape rut and routine, is representative of the hundreds of youngsters who have run away from authority and an uninspiring future, with nothing but a pocketful of notes and a heartful of dreams. Add to this, Rajat's younger brother, a victim of domestic abuse, his understanding chacha ( Ram Kapoor), and his bunch of edgy friends (both in boarding school and in the dead town) and you have a compelling character study of growing up in middle-class mofussil India.
