UI review: This vintage Upendra brain teaser is a mixed bag

Movies By S unayana Suresh Dec 12, 2024 Read the article

UI marks Upendra’s return to direction after a decade. The film uses a meta approach of a film within a film, where Upendra has made a new film titled UI that has left the minds baffled.

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To its merit, the film has all that one expects from an Upendra film right in the beginning.

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One of the biggest USPs of Upendra’s films is how he manages to get his message across but never shies away from giving the commercial audience their money’s worth.

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The film boasts a big cast, but it is pretty much an out-and-out Upendra show.

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Upendra has his touch in many ways when it comes to his commentary on the current system and it is seen through his writing in this film.

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With age, though, the angst seen in his earlier films seems to have mellowed down and this film’s like more of a discourse in a measured tone.

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