Udaan

Love your father? Udaan is an amazing coming of age story about a Rohan student, 17. We met Rohan at boarding school with his three best friends as they sneak out of boarding school one night to see a movie, they find their school administer in the audience as well. The boys are all expelled. Rohan returns to his small town where he learns that his father, whom he has not seen in eight years, has remarried and has another young son, Arjun, but the new wife is long gone.

The father quickly puts Rohan to work in his steel factory and gets him matriculated into an Engineering program at the university. Rohan is a naturally gifted writer and wants to pursue that against his father's wishes. After an incident at school, Arjun finds himself in the hospital upon the father's strict discipline. It is there Rohan begins to bond with his new brother. Away from the father in the sanctity of the hospital Rohan can share his writings. He starts to read to Arjun, then Arjun's neighbor and shortly thereafter the entire hospital including patients are listening to Rohan's writings.

Along the way Rohan turns eighteen, a man, and starts to understand the real meaning of manhood and father - a term Arjun nor Rohan are allowed to called their father. Luckily, Rohan has ready learned from his expelled companions the meaning of love, friendship, responsibility and family.

Netflix does it again, as I am always on the lookout for fresh, innovative and entertaining movies and Udaan is perfect. The cinematography is nurturing, the acting is compelling and the story is modern. Udaan definitely too me on a journey worth taking.