Rocks, Pathharaan, Raallu, Dagda, all names of the same thing, a rose is a rose by any other name! Well okay I am not getting into geology or anything, am just wondering why the English word “rocks” has become such a hit with the youngsters when it hasn’t in any other language??? Have you ever wondered??? Its cool man!! has turned into its rocking man!!
Hmmm has it got something to do with phonetics? Do people just like the word “rock” to “roll” in their mouths?? I am not a phoneticist or god knows what the guys who study phonetics are called but I think it all must have started with the advent of rock music, maybe I should just wiki the word rock…..
But anyway “Rock on” reminds me of a very good movie I saw in recent times. Four hot guys, okay let me change it just one hot guy (Arjun Rampal duh!!!) and three regular guys rocking the world. The theme of the movie was advertised as THE Indian rock and roll movie, now to girl like me who doesn’t really follow rock music, it was quite a dampener, but yet Arjun rampal and a few really good reviews got me to the theatre and I was pleasantly surprised!!
What really surprised me is that the movie is a hit!! A sensible movie like that ought to become a flop by the Hindi film industry’s standards, but yet it didn’t happen. The storyline was quite simple, four young guys form a band called magik, trying to make it big but fate has its own plans. The group gets split due to ego problems of the band members, and then one of the guy’s wife gets them all together for one last show. Really simple, yet it has been made so well. First of all, the casting was superb, Farah Akhtar in his debut film was rocking (!!) he plays a new rich investment banker, who has had everything going for him right from day one and who is the lead vocalist in the band. Then there is Arjun Rampal (nice hair, was it real??) who plays the lead guitarist for the band, who has almost no business sense and is almost always sidelined by Farah Akhtar, who after the breaking of the band sets up a guitar shop and turns into a hen pecked husband. Purab Kohli is the rich mans kid, the drummer of the band (really weird get up), who later manages his fathers business. And finally there is Luke Kenny, the pianist and the only guy who is still into the music business but only as an assistant to Anu Malik (played by him self)
So there you go the casting was really good, now one might believe the movie became a hit because of the theme of male bonding, but no as far as male bonding goes Dil Chahta Hai was better off. The theme of “Rock music” did it!! Today’s youngsters are obsessed with the whole rock and roll culture and this movie proved to be the long awaited ode to the budding rock stars of India…the music also added to the success, the music composed by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy rocked everyone ( I should really stop using the word so much )
The director has done a very good job in making a sensible blockbuster, which is a rarity in bollywood. The movie portrayed that there is no right or wrong in a decision made, it just depends on which side of the decision you are. It showed how sometimes to achieve that success you desperately need, all you have to do is take a risk. Most men who watched would have recognized themselves in at least one the guys in the movie, some must have felt good, some bad and hopefully some went on to take that risk in their life!!! Rock on!!!
Hmmm has it got something to do with phonetics? Do people just like the word “rock” to “roll” in their mouths?? I am not a phoneticist or god knows what the guys who study phonetics are called but I think it all must have started with the advent of rock music, maybe I should just wiki the word rock…..
But anyway “Rock on” reminds me of a very good movie I saw in recent times. Four hot guys, okay let me change it just one hot guy (Arjun Rampal duh!!!) and three regular guys rocking the world. The theme of the movie was advertised as THE Indian rock and roll movie, now to girl like me who doesn’t really follow rock music, it was quite a dampener, but yet Arjun rampal and a few really good reviews got me to the theatre and I was pleasantly surprised!!
What really surprised me is that the movie is a hit!! A sensible movie like that ought to become a flop by the Hindi film industry’s standards, but yet it didn’t happen. The storyline was quite simple, four young guys form a band called magik, trying to make it big but fate has its own plans. The group gets split due to ego problems of the band members, and then one of the guy’s wife gets them all together for one last show. Really simple, yet it has been made so well. First of all, the casting was superb, Farah Akhtar in his debut film was rocking (!!) he plays a new rich investment banker, who has had everything going for him right from day one and who is the lead vocalist in the band. Then there is Arjun Rampal (nice hair, was it real??) who plays the lead guitarist for the band, who has almost no business sense and is almost always sidelined by Farah Akhtar, who after the breaking of the band sets up a guitar shop and turns into a hen pecked husband. Purab Kohli is the rich mans kid, the drummer of the band (really weird get up), who later manages his fathers business. And finally there is Luke Kenny, the pianist and the only guy who is still into the music business but only as an assistant to Anu Malik (played by him self)
So there you go the casting was really good, now one might believe the movie became a hit because of the theme of male bonding, but no as far as male bonding goes Dil Chahta Hai was better off. The theme of “Rock music” did it!! Today’s youngsters are obsessed with the whole rock and roll culture and this movie proved to be the long awaited ode to the budding rock stars of India…the music also added to the success, the music composed by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy rocked everyone ( I should really stop using the word so much )
The director has done a very good job in making a sensible blockbuster, which is a rarity in bollywood. The movie portrayed that there is no right or wrong in a decision made, it just depends on which side of the decision you are. It showed how sometimes to achieve that success you desperately need, all you have to do is take a risk. Most men who watched would have recognized themselves in at least one the guys in the movie, some must have felt good, some bad and hopefully some went on to take that risk in their life!!! Rock on!!!
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