Uppi 2

Uppi is back with another master piece. Another flick with deep message to the world. It talks about how every person thinks and what each one of us go through in our daily life. This movie shows 2 contrast characters naanu(selfish) and neenu (selfless) and depicts that if are selfless and enjoy your present life rather over thinking about future or worrying about past. You can't compare this movie with any other movie.

I am sure you will be relived from all your problems and you will feel the sense of freshness in your life.

Very nice narration and wonderful direction. Kristina looks gorgeous and has done very good acting. Upendra has intentionally created confusion at the end. But if you get the message right, then you will get the reason behind the confusion caused.

Camera work is amazing and excellent background score music. Must Watch..!! Watch without expecting any Indian movie routine elements. Its an attempt to social reformation!!

This is a sequel to a 16 year old movie made by Upendra himself. This movie is named after himself, which implies that he is a self-styled egoistic man named NAANU (ME). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upendra_%28film%29

What happens after NAANU realizes the reality of life, is showcased in Uppi2. But mind you, this is not it about Uppi2. Uppi2 is a treat to watch. The screenplay is non-linear zig-zag and xyz.. We call this uppi style. It gets you dizzy. It makes you think. It makes NAANU to become NEENU (YOU) and realize life.

Watch it, and understand it to savor it.

IMPORTANT: Just because you haven't seen the 7 wonders of the world, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. In the same way Nolan, Rajamouli,Tarantino, Murugadoss, ManiRatnam etc etc are not only the best directors. Uppigintha ruchiyilla....!! Namaskara _/\_

This is one of the rarest of the rare movies that, in typical Uppi style simply defies any review. The only way to review this would be to watch it yourself. There are only two types of people - those who love Uppi movies and those who don't understand Uppi movies. This guy is like a genetically engineered hybrid of Nolan, Tarantino and Hitchcock.

This movie requires at least 2-3 viewings to even sink in. The climax simply leaves you shell-shocked and if you see the faces of those coming out of the theater, it will be like they saw a ghost or something. While successful movies from all languages are remade in other languages, I've always wondered why Upendra's movies are never remade, but only dubbed. The answer is simple. It is impossible to remake Upendra's content. I don't think there is any director or actor in the world or at least India who has either the guts or the capacity to remake Upendra's movies.

And it is to Kannada film industry's eternal credit that talents like Upendra or Rakshit Shetty, Anup Bhandari or even Puttanna Kanagal and Shankar Nag can emerge without any godfathers or famous, well connected fathers!

Take a bow Uppi! Take a bow Sandalwood!

Upendra said in an interview "It was an unfinished story. In the end, he (protagonist) leaves everything behind and goes away. There is no answer to what next. What happened to him? In a film you can show such abruptness. But what really happens to him if he were real? That question always bothered me. It was a conflict within me wanting to know what happened. Our lives are a constant search to find the ultimate truth..."

In 'Upendra-1' the protagonist was in search. In this movie the protagonist is content and happy. He enjoys and makes fun of the (odd?) ways of society.

The protagonist in the movie keeps on saying the same thing "What you are looking is here and now" and yet no one bothers to look there and then. The protagonist keeps on saying that he is a CHANGED man now and yet no one cares. People rather than looking into him, kept on searching. People who knew his past (characters from uppi-1), kept searching him in his past without realizing that past is just a reconstruct of mind. People who were interested in his future (Police and other characters interested in will), kept on searching in his future without realizing that future is again a construct of mind. No one in the movie (or in the audience) bothered to look into him. No one was in the present. People who watched movie without thinking about 'what happens next?' can get the message, otherwise they will miss it… Most people thought that the movie is about 'Neenu'(YOU). When 'Naanu' (I) dies, Neenu(You) can't exist. 'I' exist because 'You" exists. When 'I' dies, the very variable of comparison dies. Therefore the movie is not about 'Neenu'(You) .

The movie is about 'NO MIND'. It reminds me of 'ZEN' movies of China, Japan and Korea. Movie tries to explain 'No Mind' with 'Mind'. Mind on its own doesn't exist. It has no existence of its own. Therefore it is not substantial. On the other hand, mind is a continuum of thoughts. (All the scenes in the movie are in continuum and random). We don't realize this continuum due to our unconsciousness. Sit for moment. Watch your mind without judging. You realize random thoughts coming and going. If you go little deep, you can also witness intervals in between thoughts.

Thinking is always about future or past. As you are, you can't be without thinking. You can not do any activity without thinking/no mind. No mind is evolved state wherein consciousness guides. 'No mind' is the state of being; not activity. Consciousness becomes the master and mind becomes the servant. Ever wondered why Krishna became charioteer. Krishna represents consciousness and Arjuna represents mind. In a state of 'no mind' Consciousness guide the mind.

This movie is about a quest of a person who has attained 'No Mind'. Paradox is that one attains state of 'no mind' at the verge of his quest. When quest itself end, nothing exists. All this human struggle is for finding that quest. You can call it happiness or Moksha or something else. When there is no quest, neither present exists nor future. One is utterly content within. He lives. No future. No past. Therefore there cannot be any end as 'end' itself is futuristic… There are glimpses of Tantra (with Parul Yadav and in a scene with Kristina).

We can see Upendra dressing in a typical Osho style and trying to imitate him in a way in the movie...

Contentment is subjective and very inner experience. You cannot make a movie on contented person. Although one can make movie on how one attains that state.

I knew making a movie on 'no mind' was very difficult, yet director has given his sincere attempt. He should be appreciated for his guts.

I personally think screenplay could have been made more interesting.

The movie is not raw with dialogs as in Uppi-1. It is more mature, witty and more sharp. It is raw in 'Zen' sense. A kind of raw 'Zen' movie. It can be watched/enjoyed with family...

Thank you Upendra for making this movie

Uppitu alli Uppithri...

Main character of the movie is the will, not the property will but the person will.

Where there is a will there is a way if you make I (Nanu) goes out of you then you (Neenu) meets the happiness (Khushi).

So don't try to search the Khushi character in the movie which is just an illusion but try to search Khushi in your life by loving the present.

Waiting for more from Uppi and all the unique talents of Namma Kannada industry....

Kannada Rocks Bros........