Dt: 21/02/12| 10:18 PM
Saw this brilliant movie and am still reeling with strong emotional undercurrents, don’t really know how should I react to something like this…usually in every film a simpleton like me tries to relate himself to the lead character, in way of the hardships he has faced, the failed love stories, the empty pockets, the loneliness, the booze, etc. or tries to fantasize and be like that hero in a world created in his own head, being the action hero, saving the masses, go clubbing, sleep around, be the cool dude who is very moralistic but equally bad ass, etc…and hence a common indian man satisfies his need of watching commercial Bollywood cinema…
But after I saw Rockstar I just didn’t know how to react, I mean yes the movie is not a master piece, yes Imtiaz Ali had done better jobs and yes Nargis Fakiri sucks big time but you just can’t take your eyes off Ranbir Kapoor, your ears off Mohit Chauhan and your brain off the simple fact that there is no insight provided on the character of Jordan and yet you feel for the guy. Nobody has any idea why he is the way he is, an emotional imbecile, someone who is stubborn yet determined, who is brilliant yet incoherent, someone who is lost and finds solace nowhere, not even in music. To him music is only a way to distract him from the never ending feeling of love and its failure. In spite of all this you feel connected, you want to follow him, the music is the link, it keeps egging you for more, to see Jordan in more pain because he will make better music out it! Strange.
I really like Imtiaz Ali’s direction sense, he is not plagued by the traditional habit of taking every scene to its logical end, he leaves things in between and gives the viewer the space to imagine, to think ki aisa hua hoga…although he has not done a very good job with Rockstar but one thing he has been able to do very effectively is the way he has related pain with music, brilliant, very scenic. A film is a vision of the director and is not just the acting, or the music or the dance or the petty jokes or the sex…man I can go on and on… but a film actually is a combination of all these mixed in right proportions and held in their places with the vision and imtiaz ali has been very successful in doing that with Rockstar.
Ranbir Kapoor requires special mention here, by far the best job in his silver spooned career so far, he has toiled hard to and you can see it in his sincere attempt to keep things honest.
A.R. Rehman…he is GOD…he does not create music he creates melodies which flows. His music is so ahead of its times and everytime he gives a hit it becomes a landmark…the ‘jo bhiii main…’ song is one such hit and it just flows through you, just like the way it flows through the movie and you don’t even realise. The background score is a masterpiece, to me the background is very important because it drives the emotions in the film, the actors sound and look so convincing because they are supported by a brilliant background score and in this movie it is just classic!
Who would have ever thought that a voice made for intense music, for ghazals and slow songs could be made to screech in your years and still sound so good…choosing mohit chauhan for such songs was a courageous thing and justifying that selection is a stroke of brilliance…I can easily say that AR Rehamn is the Sachin Tendulkar of contemporary Indian music. And Mohit Chauhan has a true voice a 10 on 10 performance I’d say, I had never thought that he could take up the loud singing to such a liking and just belt it all over the park!
All in all a very emotional experience for me to watch this movie, although I did not see it in the cinema hall (and I curse myself for it) but I could still feel it. I just couldn’t justify the choice of actress in my head, maybe it was to make the movie more sellable because she has done a very average job, and what is with the voice over…if you can’t get a proper hindi speaking actress then the least you could do it is to get a better voice for her…I mean her lips did say the same words but they just didn’t seemed like coming out of the same mouth, and mind you there was no AV sync problem in my DVD. It is just that the voice didn’t suit Nargis fakiri, it is the same voice which has been used time and again for Bipasha, Koena, Katrina, etc and dozens of damsels in distress so for me it was the biggest put-off. Other than this loved the movie, the haryanvi accent, the music, oh the music…and Ranbir kapoor!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment