Published in The Express Tribune, Sunday Magazine, November 24 th, 2011. With its clunky editing and predictable script, Rockstar isn’t a perfect film by any standards, but it is certainly worth a watch. While the non-linear editing lacks finesse, the film’s biggest drawback, AR Rahman’s exquisite soundtrack - a heady mix of rock, melody and some fine poetry - more than makes up for it.
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Imtiaz Ali is a master of layered and dialogue-based narratives, while Jab We Met remains a cult movie in its own right, this film has Ali at his riskiest and most mature.
The filmmaker uses wonderful restraint in underscoring the drama and romance. More than anything else, what works for Rockstar is its love for subtlety, for small moments stolen and put together in a long, lovely montage: a brother-in-law exploding at his bhabhi because of her overtly affectionate consolatory touches, a discussion between two friends in a Czech field about a forbidden first kiss, a stunning, married heroine running back home, after indulging in infidelity, under the morning light, heels in one hand, guilt in the other.
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Romancing him is the half-Pakistani Nargis Fakhri, whose alabaster skin makes up for her bad dubbing and lack of acting skills. To be fair, the film owes much to this man who is clearly meant for much greater stuff. He is just the kind of actor Bollywood is not used to - a star with a commanding screen presence who never tries to overpower the scene and an instinctive actor who gets under the character’s skin to give a performance both nuanced and solid. Ranbir plays the role of Jannardhan Jhakar (later re-christened Jordan), who goes from being a young Delhi lad, to a confused musician, to a repulsive, romantic rock star. For the rest, this movie is a devastatingly gorgeous love story that will linger in your head for hours. For lovers of the Salman Khan brand of ‘entertainment’, this warning is doubly applicable. Of course, everyone is bound to love the leading man, but if you are one to frown over non-linear narratives and characters lacking in moral fibre, skip this movie. To be very honest, it is anything but a film with universal appeal. Two decades down the lane, Imtiaz Ali’s latest movie, Rockstar, will be remembered more for bringing into limelight the original cinematic rocker than anything else. upcomingregionalsection.cms?parentid=61017241&genere=*:* /upcomingregionalsection.Ranbir Kapoor is perhaps one of the most versatile actors currently working in mainstream Bollywood an actor of unusual calibre with the disarming ability to charm you as easily with his smouldering intensity as with that goofy grin of his. The screenplay seems stretched and gets monotonous with repetitive media-bashing scenes and flashback shots of what has been already served to you. After an interesting graph to the narrative in the first half, the story almost turns stationary in the second half. While one can still overlook the Dev.D influenced intoxicating attitude of the proceedings (which you can somehow attribute to the convoluted rockstar protagonist), the subsequent terminal illness conflict takes the film towards an unwelcome and undefined end. And like Love Aaj Kal, Imtiaz Ali kick-starts the film with a montage song highlighting select significant sequences from the entire film.īut beyond that when the director ventures into uncharted zone, the narrative loses track. It'll leave you feel-good hangover of itself. Rahman & Mohit Chauhan for great soundtrack & background Music. Hats off to Imtiaz Ali for story, Ranbir Kapoor & Nargis Farkhri for scintillating performances, A.R. Their reunion is also faintly reminiscent of the Jab We Met reunion, where the character-conduct is reversed with the burbling boy now trying to make the gloomy girl's life more exciting. Rockstar is a film made once in a lifetime. The passion-play between them when they reunite after years is spontaneous, smoldering and yet tastefully achieved. The casual chemistry that he induces between the lead pair through their wacky and eventful escapades has its moments of charm. Rockstar is very much engaging as far as it is in that familiar territory, where the director adds a refreshing touch to the regular romance drama. Imtiaz Ali is known for his old-wine-in-new-bottle brand of cinema. But that's not all as the plot meanders to culminate into an undesired arena of Erich Segal's Love Story. What follows is another tribute to Devdas or rather Dev.D with the neurotic, lovelorn protagonist unable to get over his mixed emotions and confused definition of love. Soon after, the girl is married off to some NRI, the boy is thrown out of his house, he seeks solace in a dargah and next you know he's a singing sensation rechristened as Jordan.Ī foreign tour reunites him with Heer and their passive passion rekindles until Jordan is obsessed with her. His yearning for heartbreak gets him close to Heer (Nargis Fakhri), as they bond over soft-porn cinema and country liquor. So you have the naïve Janardhan Jakhar (Ranbir Kapoor) who aspires to be a rockstar like Jim Morrison.
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