Uraan Film Review
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Uraan Film Review
Poulomi Banerjee (played by Srabanti Chatterjee) nurtures a deep desire to pursue a career in music. However, her journey towards her passion takes an unexpected turn, leaving the audience questioning whether she will ever reach her desired destination.
Uraan, despite its alluring cast and relevant social commentary, falls short of leaving a lasting impact. The film attempts to address various societal concerns, but in doing so, it crams too many issues into its two-hour runtime. This results in a disjointed narrative, where events unfold in a series of disconnected episodes. At times, the film strives to appear convincing, while at other moments, it veers into melodramatic territory.
While Uraan possesses pertinent themes and a talented cast, its execution ultimately leaves much to be desired. The film's scattered storytelling approach hampers its ability to make a lasting impression on the audience.
When Poulomi Banerjee (Srabanti Chatterjee) tries to fulfill her dream of pursuing music, the film starts off with a hint of her struggle with juggling household work and her ambition. An abrupt entry and some on and off screen presence later, Romit Chatterjee (Shaheb Bhattacherjee) makes the film look like a story of pursuading his love, Poulomi. But soon the script turns into an educative film addressing tonnes of current-day issues.
Despite these linkless occurrences, the intent of the too-good-to-be-true characters seem really good. Poulomi is a dutiful daughter but has a strange idea about why her family needs her. She is a much-loved worker at a music cafe, then a music teacher and later a social worker who champions the cause of harmful effects of arsenic in drinking water in a village. But she tries to achieve all this by keeping love at bay. And Shaheb plays the perfect suitor, who goes on pursuading her. He is shown as a big hotelier, without actually spending any time at work. Whereas Srabanti's character keeps on proving herself at all kinds of work. Here, the film tries to etch out an independent woman. There's also another bit where NRI children leaving their ageing parents behind is commented on.
The acting seems dramatic because of the preachy dialogues. Srabanti's sense of style is too sophisticated and updated for a woman living/working on the outskirts and villages for most of the time. She looks beautiful in each frame though. Ditto for Shaheb's attires. The vocals are beautifully rendered, even though they are not the chartbuster kind.