ROCK ON and LIVE ON

One fine Saturday, you goto a mnc office and GOD switches off building’s AC just to help you to ROCK ON……….shoo cute naa (reaction from one my colleague)

What do you understand by a ROCKSTAR!
To get the zest of this movie, it is very important to get the meaning of this word. A rockstar is anybody who overcomes his conscience to get his passion fulfilled and if his passion is true, we say it’s ROCKing…

Back to movie…

Rock ON is a movie which makes a conscious attempt to Rock you through some Rock songs (in Hindi) and also makes an unconscious attempt to teach us a moral. It is a story of four dudes - Aditya (Farhan Akhtar), Joe (Arjun Rampal), KD (Purab Kohli) and Rob (Luke Kenny), all with stylish long hairstyles. They use to jam together and wanted to touch glory through their band ‘Magic’ (oops, it’s ‘MagiK’…Why ‘K’? Is Ekta Kapour behind this? Is ‘K’ bringing them luck?). Anyways, as movie moves, ego issues emerge (as they came in DCH) and one of the members punches other (DCH had a slap). They break-up…after that…one becomes a successful business guy and other remains no-where (as in DCH). Tring tring!! The woman power comes into picture (Prachi Desai as Aditya’s wife). Under emotional circumstances, she manages to reunite the band and again an opportunity comes for them to touch glory. Rest is known…

Music by Shankar-Ehsan-Loy is super-class. Farhan ‘naturally-distorted’ voice gives a natural ‘ROCKy’ texture in his singing. Songs esp. ‘socha hai’, ‘tum ho to’, ‘rock on’ and ‘meri laundry’ all are very nicely composed and performed.

Casting is done almost perfectly. Some years back uncle Javed Akhtar’s son (Farhan Akhtar) directed a movie by the name of DCH (Dil Chahta Hai) and till now it enjoys a cult status when we speak of teen flicks. Now, the ‘son’ has matured and turned into a rockstar, and is perfect in doing do. At no point of time, Farhan Aktar (as lead guitarist, Aditya) looks like a debutant. KD is the ‘one-liner’ delivery centre. His attitude of ‘be chilled by getting filled’ is funny and adorable. Rob is the dark horse (expect professional mature stuff from him). Arjun Rampal (as Joe, the lead guitarist) works like an ‘energy-less’ donkey (slow n steady yet wins the race). He is fine in senti scenes, but he could have shown more adrenaline during the rock concerts sequences.

What surprised me totally was the ‘U’ certificate given to ‘ROCK ON’. Man! I wasn’t expecting this; after all it’s about rockstars. Words like Booze, Dope and Condoms are assumed with them. This movie makes a statement – you need not be a junglee to become a rockstar, you just need to be a rockstar (refer starting para for definition).

Every good movie has a baseline. It too has one -

‘It’s never late to say YES to your dreams’.
LIVE ON before you become a dream.