Release Date - 05/25/2012
Language - Hindi
Genre - DramaFamily
Synopsis
Yeh Khula Aasmaan revolves around Avinash, a young intelligent boy going through an extremely challenging phase of life due to his academic failures. He feels an immense vacuum which unfortunately his busy parents are unable to fill. In desperation he visits his Grandfather (Dadu) after several years.
Being the Best Kite Runner of his era, Dadu uses the 'kite' to subtly impart the lessons of life and prepares Avinash to face life. Under Dadu's company... Read more
Story :
Yeh Khula Aasmaan revolves around Avinash, a young intelligent boy going through an extremely challenging phase of life due to his academic failures. He feels an immense vacuum which unfortunately his busy parents are unable to fill. In desperation he visits his Grandfather (Dadu) after several years.
Being the Best Kite Runner of his era, Dadu uses the 'kite' to subtly impart the lessons of life and prepares Avinash to face life. Under Dadu's company Avinash discovers many unexplored yet invaluable facets of life finding true Friendship, Love and Inspiration to lead a life full of hope, joy and success.
Movie Review :
It is a competitive world, but the fear of losing should not stop you from trying. And if you give it a shot, then might as well have the conviction to succeed. Yeh Khula Aasmaan keeps driving home this one point – over and over again.
Yeh Khula Aasmaan was touted as a sports film which it isn't. The most appropriate description which comes to mind is contrived melodrama that has random plot points strung together.
Plot
IIT-JEE, HSC results, CET, etc with so many exams and so many results, students today are invariably pressurized directly and indirectly. Avinash (Raj Tandon) is one such student. Avinash who is a bright student, suddenly finds out that he has failed his IIT-JEE entrance exams. Disheartened, he calls his parents but with their busy schedule, they are unable to give him any support. Loneliness starts eating him up from within, and he decides to leave for his grandfather’s place.
Dadu Gulab (Raghuveer Yadav) is elated on seeing his grandson after almost 10 years. Dadu and Avinash start bonding and after a long time, Avinash feels like he has somebody in this world who cares for him. Here, he also finds a best friend in Govinda (Nitin Kerur) and the love of his life in Muskaan (Anya Anand). Meanwhile, the pride and honour of Dadu, i.e., his 1959 Kite-Flying Championship record, is at stake when his opponent Mirza’s grandson threatens and challenges Avinash. The championship suddenly becomes a matter of family pride. Dadu, while making Avinash learn the importance of sportsmanship, also hopes that Avinash will regain his confidence through this competition.
Will Dadu be successful? Will Avinash’s parents realize their son’s need for love and encouragement? Will Avinash give up or will he fulfill his Dadu’s dreams? All these questions are answered in the course of the rest of the movie.
Performances
Raj Tandon shows some promise but his performance gets bogged down by the synthetic dialogues he's forced to deliver every few minutes. The girl next door Muskaan (played by Anya Anand) struts around with a vacuous expression on her face. Fairly confident for a newcomer, she can't really be blamed if the director has focused more on the vague symbolism of the kites than on the characters.
Raghubir Yadav gives a natural and touching performance as the dadu. Yashpal Sharma doesn’t look convincing as an urban character – he looks forced and fake. His awkward dialogue delivery in English turns you off. He should probably stick to rustic roles that bring out the best in him.
Overall
Yeh Khula Aasman is preachy, predictable and boring.