In a country where aunties and uncles abound - every person five years older than
you is either an aunt or an uncle - a straightforward tribute to them was long
overdue. So one is justified in thinking that Uncle is just that. True
enough, but that doesn't compensate for the patchy effort that it is. Uncle
is another of those films that start off as a campus story and end up as sentimental
dramas. The two halves of the film are so diametrically different that however
much the director tries to fuse them into one whole, the quick-fix method shows
through.