- published: 23 Apr 2016
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Udaan (Hindi: उड़ान, Flight) is a 2010 Hindi film produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap, and Ronnie Screwvala; and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. The film was officially selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard (A Certain Glance) category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was not immediately successful at the box office when released, but was eventually regarded as a cult classic.
17-year-old Rohan is expelled from the reputed Bishop Cotton School, Shimla boarding school along with three friends Vikram, Benoy and Maninder when they are caught by their warden watching an adult movie off campus .
Rohan returns home to Jamshedpur to a stern and abusive father and a 6-year-old half-brother, Arjun (who he didn't even know that Rohan existed), not knowing what's in store for him. His father forces him to attend engineering classes at the local university and work at his metal works factory. His father's disappointment takes the form of verbal and physical abuse and constant humiliation. His kind uncle supports Rohan's ambition of being a writer, but his father will have none of it. One night he sneaks out of the house, takes his father's car and goes to a local bar. There he meets some seniors from his college who try to rag him but later become his friends. Then he does this regularly, taking his father's car and drinking at the bar.
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
Keywords: absent-father, abusive-father, alcoholic, alcoholic-father, alcoholism, anger, anti-conformity, atrocity, authoritarian, authoritarianism
Dear mother I am lost and the damage has been done.
I’m in love with my old century fix and this needle can’t be wrong,
But I wonder?
Where do we go from here because we’re never coming home?
The sequel to this nightmare lasts forever, forever.
One last goodnight, with this painted picture in our minds the voice inside that sings tonight.
One last goodnight, with this painted picture in our minds the voice inside that sings tonight.
I’m not scared at all, so let’s walk away.
I’m not scared at all, so now walk away.
Dear mother now beyond the grave you’re the soul that wants me.
Front row with a cigarette, you’re the ghost that haunts me,
But I wonder?
I’m too fucked up to come home,
I swear this heart was made of stone,
I won’t pretend that everything’s alright when it’s not.
One last goodnight, with this painted picture in our minds the voice inside that sings tonight.
One last goodnight, with this painted picture in our minds the voice inside that sings tonight.
I’m not scared at all, so let’s walk away.
I’m not scared at all, so now walk away.
Wake me now drive faster, make me now a disaster,
Take me now live after and walk away.2x
Can you design living through hell and back again?
It’s the life that’s killing you walk away friend.
Can you design living through hell and back again?
It’s the life that’s killing you walk away WALK AWAY!!!
One last goodnight, with this painted picture in our minds the voice inside that sings tonight.