UDAAN

Very few times you come across a movie that takes you into its own world. Today I had that experience after watching the extremely beautiful piece of work called UDAAN. For the first time in years people around me in a theatre got blanked out and all i could see was the story of this young boy trying to break free. Presently my schedule is so tiring that all the movies I have gone to see in the past 2 months I have dozed off in between including INCEPTION(hush hush!!). But UDAAN connected at so many levels that it was impossible to take your eyes of this movie. I was feeling restless during the interval and I did not want to come back to the reality of my life at the end.
I would like to give a standing Ovation To Mr. Ronit Roy for coming up with a performance so real that you could actually touch him. A movie for me has always been an amalgamation of "moments" and UDAAN was just that, be it the 1st scene at the theatre or the one where Rohan (Rajat Barmecha) meets his younger brother for the first time. Be Ronit Roy`s steely indifference and yet his expression of love for his son just before the interval or the scene where the son smokes in front of his father, everything was so beautifully shot. Characters are etched in my mind from Manjot singh(oye lucky..) to the old man at the hospital.
When you see Rohan run away from his Dad you can feel the same freedom that he feels. When you see Ronit Roy reading the letter from his son in the climax you feel bad for a man trapped within his own demons.
This movie has made me want to write a blog post after so long, that speaks volumes about it. I so wanted to go back to that world that immediately after the movie i wanted to catch a train to jamshedpur (the location). I am an actor here in mumbai but tomorrow if I see Mr Anurag Kashyap or Mr Vikramaditya Motwane, I am not gonna ask them for work but I wanna freaking applaud them for making a beautifully brilliant movie like this.
I felt so angry when I saw empty seats at the theatre that I wanted to make it my personal ,mission to market this movie. Bloody you guys see so much crap but when it comes to a lovely movie like this you dont have any cash on you??? come on give me another one.
It is a movie straight from the heart and it deserves an audience. IT TRULY DOES