UDAAN :"the new flight of Indian Cinema"

UDAAN: Another classic example of the grand constructive shift in Indian Cinema. I would rather call it “new Flight of Indian Cinema” because it reflects the new approach of world class cinema.

UDAAN narrates the tale of many of youths from middle-class families. It is the story of agony and breaking away to fly the kite of one’s dreams. It portrays the varied shades of human emotions. Many a times in life we have to give up or bow down to someone, much against our will.
UDAAN tells a story of a son who is almost on an extended custody under his disciplinarian father’s domain. After being expelled from boarding school, and he has to live with his authoritarian, dictatorial father. Much against his aspiration of being a writer, he is forced to study engineering and work part-time in his father. The dictator rule of his father cuts off all the independence he enjoyed in his school days. As life turns more and more complex under the roof of his dominating father, he makes his own way to his Journey. Udaan doesn’t only restrict the father-son divide till the academic expectations that parents have from their children. It is an emotionally charged film that sometimes moves you to tears.

ABHAY DEOL - "The new face of Indian Cinema"

Indian cinema is changing, and along with it evolving many personalities which represent the face of new Indian cinema. Among them is Abhay Deol, the most unconventional actor of hindi Cinema today who is not afraid of taking risks in roles he opts for. Even after being from the one of the most impactful DEOL family of commercial cinema, Abhay have developed a niche for himself which differentiates him from other actors.

He is the actor of today’s multiplex cinema; his roles cater to the youth of society with the heavy touch of reality and unconventional non filmy style of acting. Consider any of his roles and you will find it very near to reality. Be it Ankush of “Aahista Aahista”, the super thief from “Oye lucky lucky Oye”, or dev from “Dev D”, he has offered a variety always.

Abhay is a thinking actor and has done majority of work with debutant directors; rather unusual and daring in the context of “Star driven” hindi film industry. One can understand Abhay’s philosophy about his progress from the fact that he took more than 8 years to enter film industry just because he wanted to complete his studies first. After graduating from Mumbai University, Abhay headed to Los Angeles and studied Fine Arts. After completing a two year acting course, Abhay answered to his Bollywood calling making his debut with Imtiaz Ali directed “Socha naa tha” in 2005. His second film was “Ek Chalis ki last local” followed by “Manorama 6 feet under” which won the Best Film at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York City. Dev.D, directed by Anurag Kashyap, in 2009 and was critically acclaimed and was a big box office success.

Barely 10 films old Deol has been the cover of Man's World and Time Out Mumbai, with titles such as "the new face of Indian cinema". He placed seventh on Zoom's "50 Most Desirable Hotties" poll for 2009. He has often been described in the media as the thinking women's sex symbol.

After framing the story for Dev D , Abhay is all set to debut as producer with much awaited ”BASRA”. Hope to see some unconventional entertaining stuff from producer Abhay.