Synopsis
Drugs di maa di.
Drug abuse and the darker side of Punjab rear their heads in the intense, interwoven tales of a policeman, a doctor, a migrant worker, and a rockstar.
Drug abuse and the darker side of Punjab rear their heads in the intense, interwoven tales of a policeman, a doctor, a migrant worker, and a rockstar.
Anurag Kashyap Ekta Kapoor Vikramaditya Motwane Shobha Kapoor Vikas Bahl Vivek B Agrawal Ranjan Singh Sameer Nair
Flying Punjab, Udata Punjab, 迷幻旁遮普, 寶萊塢影城:毒虐旁遮普, 우타 펀자브, A la velocidad de las drogas, Летящий Пенджаб, פונג'ב מעופפת, Punjabul stupefiant
The grim crime drama, through its three interwoven stories, sheds light on the drug menace in the state of Punjab and the corruption nexus mafia surrounding it. After a no holds barred first hour with no sugar coating whatsoever, the narrative does drag on, diluting the issue in hand, as it shifts its focus onto characters. Well, the lead cast do hold it well and were terrific all around, with Alia Bhatt impressing the most. Amit Trivedi’s music perfectly complement the tone and mood of the movie. On the whole, it is definitely worth a watch.
Udta Punjab focuses on 3 Major aspects of the Drug menace happening in Punjab: 'The Addiction', 'The Victim' and 'The Cure' played by Shahid, Alia and Kareena/Diljith respectively.
I liked how the 'victim' and 'addiction' makes contact with each other but the 'cure' remains at bay as a symbol that the drug infested Punjab is still far from a solution.
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Not unlike David Lynch’s dismantling of the notion of small-town Rockwellian America, Abhishek Chaubey’s much talked about drug-abuse exposé, Udta Punjab, manages to peel back the thick veneer of idealization long propagated by Bollywood (and, I’m sure, regional film industries) regarding the eponymous Indian state of Punjab. The act, in this case, may not seem as deliberately subversive on the surface, but the final product is no less removed from the norm.
And that norm, perhaps cemented forever in the hearts and minds of many twenty years ago by Yash Raj Films’ Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), arguably the second most popular Indian movie of all-time after Sholay (1975), has consisted of plush green and yellow mustard fields, happy and…
Rewatching this with Trish as she missed out on this gem. Ahh, 2019 memories.
I have always been a Shahid Kapoor fan, and ig i still remain one. FUDDU 🤘
dude had a tattoo of a gun called love pistol pointing to his dick....................
Getting to the dark side of drugs is not something Bollywood does. But here Udta Punjab tries to go into that world.
Udta Punjab revolves around four characters... Tommy Singh a rap star who has the typical lifestyle of an rockstar, involving drugs, the hairdo and everything, but soon this all comes to rock down as he gets arrested.
On the other side Sartaj Singh a police officer is making his side money by busting some drug carrying trucks with his senior officer, but his life comes tumbling down when his brother gets addicted to drugs, and then he starts to investigate the core of the drugs smuggling and joins Preet, a rehab doctor to clean Punjab.
And finally the…
This film is in many ways a landmark. It exposes the huge drug addiction problems in the state of Punjab and is by far the grittiest Bollywood film I've ever seen. It's definitely a triumph over censorship.
The Indian censorship board originally asked for 94 cuts to the film. The board argued that the film portrays the state of Punjab in bad light and the purpose of most of the cuts was to obscure the name of the state.
The filmmakers went to court and the court ruled the censorship board had been overzealous. In the end only 1 cut was made, in a scene in which a rockstar urinates on his audience when under the influence of drugs.
The…