Udaan

rewatching this after JEE results is the best decision of my life. Udaan is not about an abusive father, it's not about a son who's stuck in an unwanted loop, it's about patriarchy and the way it is deeply rooted in this society. Bhairav is an inhuman character. He is written to be hated. Doesn't change the fact of Rohan being a gray character. I mean he steals, he smokes, he goes to bar at night, he is involved with hoodlum seniors. So what is it that makes this film a masterpiece. Well, the film was never about Bhairav or Rohan, it was not about how bad the father is and how weak the son is. Udaan tells us the story of a father who is obsessed with perfection and the so called idea of success, instilled in his mind after facing the same by his parents, which is being repeated in the film over the course of Rohan's life and then in Arjun's. One of the best things I noticed this time was- there were no female characters, the whole film revolves around the males in our society. One who is obsessed with discipline, one who couldn't be what he wanted, one who is been forbidden to get what he want and one who is naive and yet thrusted into being a man at such a tender age. Bhairav was a bad father, a bad human too but there was a part of him who wanted his children to succeed while being in a small city, maybe he dreamt of it and it didn't come true, so he was not letting his children face the same. But showing them no affection and mentally torturing them day and night makes no sense of his idea of success. Well I can talk about this for hours but let's stop here for now.