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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Rock On - A Review

I was talking to a friend yesterday, and i got to know that she has not yet watched this movie yet.. So for i hope she will watch the movie atleast after reading this review!!

Rock On is a brilliant movie – a very simple concept converted into a brilliant motion film supported by terrific performances by debutant actor Farhan Akhtar and Arjun Rampal, and the whole cast ensemble.

Rock On makes you swing emotionally, making you laugh and cry, and teaching you to revel in the joys of life. It is a story of four friends who live music and run a rock band fondly named Magik. Things move good and then things turn bad and they move apart. They are again gelled together, courtesy wife of Farhan Akhtar, who is an affluent investment banker and a reticent. All four friends have moved on and chosen the path never meant for them.

I am sure all of us have had great friends during our school or college time and then lost touch with them. Now, due to Orkuts, LinkedIns and FaceBooks we are able to trace them; that’s good for you, but there are people who we lose in lives and even if we trace them on SNSs we will not contact them. Either we had a fight with them or things turned so sour that we are afraid to take an initiative. In any case, we are so engulfed in our current work-life balance that old contacts hold very little relevance.

Rock On glorifies this divide between 20s and 30s very well. All of us move on and hardly care for what has been left behind us. A once-talented poet has no inspiration to write and would waste his life doing stocks; a drummer would spend his life selling diamonds to beautiful rich women; a super-talented guitarist would never be successful because he is too ethical and over-sensitive in this manipulative and money-minded world; a keyboard expert would be lonely in India’s most crowded city. That’s what the four friends of Rock On become.

When life brings these four friends together again, they are now matured adults who want to prove nothing to the world but to their collective ego. When their hearts call out to be with each other, you know that finding reasons behind everything is not logical. Logic is for those who live life too seriously; those who live life, live it from their heart, they listen to their soul and are often termed crazy in the contemporary world. Rock On only makes me believe in this more.

Rock On shows that if you lose friends you are not fortunate to get them back always; they may be in the last stages of their life, and you will realize that you lost precious time. It makes you realize that the love you took so much for granted and left behind is now being embraced by your worst friend or best enemy. Not everyone is as fortunate as Farhan; he kicks away his love to only find someone more considerate and angel-like! We need to learn from this movie but also notice our script is not written by a benevolent Bollywood writer. It is written and destroyed by us.

I guess I have written more of a philosophical message than a movie review. You will love the music too! For me, the best movie of this year so far at least musically. I have now lost the count of the number of times i have played the tracks from this movie!

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