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Udaan is yet another attempt to tell the story of a young boy who is restricted by his parent to do what he wants to do and how he finally breaks free and takes that step into unknown and gives himself a chance....The highlight of the movie is the way the director brings out the small town life feel and the absence of any background score...so its a very realistic depiction and that is very impressive.....Lets talk about the lowlights i felt the movie was too documentrish and story was not well written and also well characterized....i sensed a constant conflict where the writer on one hand wanted to show that the father had a heart but he wanted his children to look at things from his perspective on the other hand it wanted to highlight that the father didn't care about his children at all .... Overall i don't think 'Udaan' will connect well with audiences even to the younger lot (at least going by the spontaneous feedback of fellow young guys in the theatre) simply bco...

Udaan is yet another attempt to tell the story of a young boy who is restricted by his parent to do what he wants to do and how he finally breaks free and takes that step into unknown and gives himself a chance....The highlight of the movie is the way the director brings out the small town life feel and the absence of any background score...so its a very realistic depiction and that is very impressive.....Lets talk about the lowlights i felt the movie was too documentrish and story was not well written and also well characterized....i sensed a constant conflict where the writer on one hand wanted to show that the father had a heart but he wanted his children to look at things from his perspective on the other hand it wanted to highlight that the father didn't care about his children at all .... Overall i don't think 'Udaan' will connect well with audiences even to the younger lot (at least going by the spontaneous feedback of fellow young guys in the theatre) simply bco...

Udaan is yet another attempt to tell the story of a young boy who is restricted by his parent to do what he wants to do and how he finally breaks free and takes that step into unknown and gives himself a chance....The highlight of the movie is the way the director brings out the small town life feel and the absence of any background score...so its a very realistic depiction and that is very impressive.....Lets talk about the lowlights i felt the movie was too documentrish and story was not well written and also well characterized....i sensed a constant conflict where the writer on one hand wanted to show that the father had a heart but he wanted his children to look at things from his perspective on the other hand it wanted to highlight that the father didn't care about his children at all .... Overall i don't think 'Udaan' will connect well with audiences even to the younger lot (at least going by the spontaneous feedback of fellow young guys in the theatre) simply bco...

Marathi movies are making a big turnaround with some fabulous content coming out of the industry....'Gabricha Paus'(Damned Rain) is one such movie....Its a story about a farmer family in 'Vidharbha' caught in the vicious circle of 'Loan' & 'Rain'....Even in the past i have seen movies by the great 'Satyajit Ray' about the poor India (Pather Panchali) but a significant difference between that brand of cinema and this brand is the fact that somewhere 'Satyajit Ray's' brand of poor india was apologetic of that fact and that reflected in the 'Sad/Negative' tone/feel of his cinema....This is where 'Gabricha Paus' scores ....It is not a unidimensional apologetic translation of thoughts into story....Its a story about a family who knows that they are in the vicious circle and how they try to deal with it, the story has its moments of sadness but like in life it also had funny moments, romance in it...Thats where 'sati...

Cinema does not have a language barrier, u understand when u see movies like 'Harishchandrachi Factory'...Although the movie is in Marathi (unfortunately the CD did not have subtitles...just a suggestion...Regional movie CD's should always be released with subtitles it will only improve sales) it never worked as a barrier....The movie is uniquely made as it recreates in totality the time when dadasaheb phalke lived...u will never ever feel like that its a contemporary movie...i feel that is the high point of the movie...the performances too are immaculate both Nandu Madhav & Vibhawari Deshpande have given a lifetime performance...The director/writer establishes the whole story in such a way that at it looks like a fairytale journey by dadasaheb phalke...Its ironic that such a good movie hasn't been seen across the country due to lack of promotion...But for me its a movie worth keeping in my collections....a brilliant job by the entire crew and UTV... 'Invictus...

Finally i was able to watch the most successfull movie of the year till i.e. Rajneeti..The movie is good but nor great...Unlike other PJ's movies it comes with too many commercial cliches especially the whole 'Step Son Ajay Devgan' angle...In the 2nd half the movie transforms from an intense poitical drama to an action oriented revenge film...I think Prakash Jha could have made the movie more powerful by sticking the storyline strictly to Political Drama....One thing i noticed in the movie which i find unbelievable is the professionalism that was shown in the way meetings are conducted/data being analysed/Conference Room always has an AV running on the screen in the background....I wonder how far in UP/Bihar political parties are run professionally....Katrina Kaif got overpublicity compared to the role that she had in the movie...She hardly had any role...I do not why the entire crew was going gaga about 'Katrina's' eforts in the movie...when there wasn't an...

Given the fact that all movies are now on TV within few weeks of release gives us a sense that producers are looking for multiple revenue streams big time...(in fact i have heard some of them plays a role in releasing the pirated CD's as well..when they know it will not do well....)....Looking at the quality of movies being made now a days , big time fall in footfalls in Multiplexes due to much faster spread of 'Word of mouth'unlike a couple of years back (thanks to social networking)...it gives me an indication that somewhere the business model of 'Movies' are not working smoothly, which is forcing producers to release it on TV much sooner than required so that they can at least cash in on the idiot box which at least gives them greater assurance of 'Eyeballs' (as typically people do give all those movie a watch which they haven't seen in theatre's...bcoz for them its free of cost..)...While its good for the producers that they have TV to save them ...