Udaan (2010)
- Original title
- उड़ान
- Directed by
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Genre
- drama film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 232 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A teenager is expelled from boarding school and forced to return to his childhood home. There he must deal with his harsh and controlling father.
introspectivetensemelancholicslow-burnoppressivepoignantcontemplativeemotionally raw
What happens
Udaan (transl. Flight) is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age drama film directed by Vikramaditya Motwane in his directorial debut. It was produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap, and Ronnie Screwvala under their production companies Anurag Kashyap Films and UTV Spotboy, respectively. Written by Motwane and Kashyap, the film stars debutante Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Aayan Boradia, and Ram Kapoor. It follows the story of a teen who is forced to live with his oppressive father back home after he is expelled from boarding school. Motwane wrote the script in 2003, but could not find a producer. He co-wrote Kashyap's Dev.D (2009), and Kashyap produced and co-wrote Udaan. The film was set and shot in the industrial town of Jamshedpur. Mahendra J. Shetty was its director of photography, and Dipika Kalra was the editor; Aditya Kanwar was the production designer. Udaan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and received a standing ovation; it was the first Indian film represented at Cannes in seven years. The film was also screened at the Giffoni Film Festival and the 2011 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Although it was released on 16 July 2010 to critical acclaim and was a commercial success at the box office (grossing ₹33.5 crores from a production budget of ₹5 crores). At the 56th Filmfare Awards, the film received seven awards: Best Screenplay and Best Story (Motwane and Kashyap), Best Cinematography (Mahendra Shetty), Best Background Music (Trivedi), Best Supporting Actor (Male) (Roy), Best Sound Design Award (Kunam Sharma) and the Best Film (Critics) Award. In 2019, Film Companion ranked Roy's performance second in their list of the 100 greatest performances of the decade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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