Ranked #46 of 100
Udaan
उड़ान · 2010
A boy expelled from boarding school returns to a father who wants an engineer and a brother he never knew he had.
- Director
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Year
- 2010
- Genre
- Drama · Coming-of-age
- Cast
- Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Manjot Singh
Why it's at number 46
Screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Ronit Roy's father is the most terrifying in modern Hindi cinema.
A boy expelled from boarding school returns to a father who wants an engineer and a brother he never knew he had.
Udaan sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane — also responsible for Trapped, Lootera.
- Released in 2010, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Coming-of-age.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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