Udaan

This is a best film of the year. Beautiful, poignant and touching. It requires sheer guts to produce such kind of film without getting bogged down by commercial trappings. Screenplay is to the point and director Vikramaditya Motwane succeeds as a fine storyteller. The strength of UDAAN lies in its writing as it never gets preachy. UDAAN gives a message of following your dreams & how parents should not impose their own wishes/thoughts on their children. However, not in a single scene director preaches and still strongly makes the point. Performances by all the cast members are amazing. They just fit in their respective characters. Special mention has to be made of Rajat Barmecha as Rohan & Aayan Boradia as Arjun. Music by Amit Trivedi goes well with mood & treatment of the film. Very good one.

Every man/woman is always inclined towards mingling, socializing with others. I say feeling of socializing is not natural but it comes out of fear of being alone, which every human has. Now, comes part of emotional attachment. I think feeling of being attached to parents, siblings, friends etc comes out of being with them for a certain period of time. You enjoy being with them and it becomes kind of habit rather it becomes need and when need arises comes a question of utility. That way I have always felt that every relationship comes with a utility and once the utility is over relationship is over.

Moving on this may sound harsh but every human comes with date of expiry and we always try not to think about it. However, in our subconscious we definitely know that and as a result of this we try to build new relationships with fear of expiry of other people and of course our own default state of being alone. That’s why when somebody just thinks of himself we say he/she is having extreme individualistic attitude or is self centered. I say nothing wrong in it but its just that degree of being alone is slightly higher in these people than others. However, having said this depending upon the degree of state of being alone and fear caused by it, people make or break relationships.  Always in search of someone. May it be a family member, friend or somebody else.

Also, it was more of like few people belong to some other caste and that’s why importance of me coming from some caste increases.  Apart from this my parents decided and at the age of 8 I had to go through some ritual, of which I don’t remember anything and it hasn’t affected my life in any way. However, as a kid major impact was that I started taking unnecessary pride in coming from a particular caste. Another reason people gave in celebrating such rituals is that it gives them a chance to invite friends/family for get together but I guess get together can be arranged  without involving religion/caste at least when ritual is related with children, who most of the times don’t understand a single bit of it.

Now, I get amazed considering how foolish I was that instead of taking pride in my achievements, creations, accomplishment I was used to feel proud of a thing, in which my contribution was zero. Its just that people surrounding me used to tell me and since ages all these people were also told by their forefathers that they come from a particular caste. Having said all this, unfortunately till today in administrative systems of largest democracy in the world caste of a citizen is required for maintaining records. I guess another reason for people for taking pride in their caste.

Sadly, this doesn’t end here. People take pride in their caste, then in their regional identity and above all comes the mighty thing called “religion”. Some more energy is wasted in cursing/bashing people from other communities/castes/regions/religions and then suddenly, you go outside of India and you become Asian.  At this point most of the people feel proud being an Indian. Till that time  being an Indian is never on agenda.

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A film directed by master director James Cameron. Particularly an extravagant, brilliant, amazing, awesome, killer film made on epic proportions with never before seen visuals and strong storyline, which will give audience a life changing experience.

I don’t know how many times more I am going to see “Billy Elliot”.  I already have seen it for couple of times and still can’t get over with it. A story of a motherless boy who chooses ballet shoes against boxing gloves. A very subtle treatment by director Stephen Daldry. Brilliant performances by Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot, Gary Lewis as Dad and Julie Walters as ballet teacher and of course by other supporting cast members. Above all this what an apt use of songs in the film. “Cosmic Dancer, Get It On, I love to Boogie and Children of Revolution by T. Rex are  some. A must watch film for everyone who love films with just happy tone.