Udaan (2010) on Netflix
Expelled from boarding school, Rohan returns to Jamshedpur and his abusive father Bhairav, who fills his days with morning runs, factory shifts and engineering classes. Rohan wants to write.
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Plot summary
Rohan, seventeen, is expelled from Bishop Cotton, a boarding school in Shimla, when a warden catches him and three friends watching an adult film off campus at night. He goes back to Jamshedpur, where his father, Bhairav Singh, owns a metalworking factory, and where a six-year-old half-brother, Arjun, lives; Arjun had not known Rohan existed. Bhairav lays down the routine: a run every morning that finishes with a race between them, shifts at the factory, then engineering classes at the local university, with mockery and blows whenever the boy disappoints him. A writer's life is what Rohan wants, and his uncle Jimmy encourages the ambition, while Bhairav refuses to allow it.
Cast
- Suman Mastkaras Mr. Kashyap
- Aarhan Roychowdhryas Young Rohan
- Raja Huddaas Vikram
- Shaunak Senguptaas Amber
- Varun Khettryas Benoy
- Shashi Sharmaas Rathod's Girlfriend
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Udaan (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rajat Barmecha, a newcomer, won the role of Rohan after several screen tests by casting director Jogi, even though Motwane did not like his first auditions; Barmecha improved and was chosen.
- Udaan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival under the title The Flight and got a standing ovation; it was the first Indian film represented at Cannes in seven years.
- Vikramaditya Motwane had the script of Udaan finished in 2003, but it took him seven years to find a producer for the film.
- For a scene in Udaan involving Rohan's mother, director Vikramaditya Motwane used a photograph of his own wife.
