Soundtrack Movie Review - Page 9

Originally posted by: pgsks

2 stars there from rajeev masand,he also didn't like the 1st half...and the joker clown.anyways he cud have given 2.5 as he gave 2 stars to love break ups zindingi too 🤔

Originally posted by: pgsks

but subhas k jha on E24 said watch soundtrack for rajeev khandelwal's performance😳

Originally posted by: pgsks

no re i really believe in rajeev masand though i prefered watching vivah even thogh he gave only 1.5 stars 😆

anyways rajeev has tried somehing different unlike some actors who just stuck to their image so all the best to him 😳

Soundtrack

Posted: Fri Oct 07 2011, 20:19 hrs

**1/2:

Director: Neerav Ghosh

Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Soha Ali Khan, Mohan Kapoor, Yatin Karyekar, Manu Rishi

Indian Express rating:**1/2

What is it like to be able to hear, and create music, all your life, and suddenly lose the gift? What does it feel like to be hailed as the next best thing one moment, and to be reviled the next? 'Soundtrack' gives us a story (based on a Canadian film, which fact is dutifully part of the end credits) which feels like it is about something : such a relief from the spate of nothing movies that have been infesting our theatres for a while now, even if the result is mixed.

Raunaq Kaul (Khandelwal) is one of those people who have music in their blood. And also one of those lucky ones to whom everything comes quickly and easily. He has a mentor (Karyekar), and a patron (Kapoor), and a girlfriend (Sharma), and endless rows of shrieking fans as he spins tracks in a club. It's all too much, too soon, and he doesn't quite know how to handle it. Hubris leads to serious damage, both of the ear, and the spirit, and he is cast out, looking for a way back.

'Soundtrack' starts off on a high promising note, and then slides into a middle where everything gets muddled, and excessive. Khandelwal is clean-cut, and does much better at later repentance and acceptance than he does in this part where he has to appear out-of-control on a cocktail of too many drugs and too much sex. The film falls into the 'let's do this for effect' trap where it veers between frenzied copulation and substance abuse and a leading man trying too hard to pull it off. Kaul's imaginary alter-ego hanging about in a mask and the other characters talking about him straight to the camera, both become overused devices. In all this posturing, the most important part of a film that is supposed to be about a musical genius—the music-- is forgotten.

Fortunately for the film, and for us, the second half comes along, and calms things down. As Raunaq deals with his loss, he regains some clarity, and gets some of his charm back. Mohan Kapoor goes full tilt at the rocking producer who recommends being a musician because of all the hot chicks : Yatin Karyekar gets a role which is not bite-sized. Both overplay, with a few nice moments. Manu Rishi, in a tiny part, is effective. So is Soha Ali Khan, who shows up post interval, as the girl who teaches Khandelwal how to live again. And Khandelwal builds on his promise as an actor who imitates no one (though in the beginning, he sounds irritatingly like Rajesh Khanna), and who is willing to play against his chocolate boy looks.

If only the music was better.

shubhra.gupta@expressindia.com

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/soundtrack/857088/1

Misses a beat

Soundtrack

Rating:

October 07, 2011

Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Soha Ali Khan, Mohan Kapur, Mrinalini Sharma

Director: Neerav Ghosh

Slipping further and further into a vortex of drugs, alcohol and meaningless sex, the protagonist of Soundtrack, genius DJ Raunak Kaul (Rajeev Khandelwal), suddenly goes deaf one day. It's an intriguing premise, borrowed legitimately from the Canadian film It's All Gone Pete Tong, that itself claimed to be based on a true story.

Treated without the requisite pinch of humor or irony, director Neerav Ghosh delivers a boring film that's as indulgent as the character whose life-story it portrays. Khandelwal, usually a terrific actor, appears grossly miscast as the hedonist hero, and plays him with a misguided sense of seriousness. You're meant to feel for Raunak and root for him to overcome his impediment, but there are two problems here. First, he's been such a shallow figure that mustering up any real sympathy for him is a near impossible task. Second, Khandelwal's appearance and physicality in no way reflects Raunak's supposed inner breakdown. The actor is on stronger ground in the film's later portions, when his character takes up with a deaf girl (Soha Ali Khan) and commits himself towards finding fulfillment.

The film's second half in fact has a bunch of endearing moments, and the director seems more capable handling these conventional scenes. Soha has a warm vibe to her, but it's Mohan Kapur as Raunak's opportunistic manager who seems to get the tone that is required here.

Soundtrack doesn't work consistently because it's amateurishly directed, and because even those scenes of Raunak's debauchery are so tackily filmed. Even if you survive this film's every other flaw, chances are you'll be exhausted by those long, hallucinatory interactions between Raunak and his alter-ego that manifests itself as a clown.

I'm going with two out of five for Soundtrack. Somewhere in this tiring film is a promising idea that hasn't been fully exploited.

http://www.rajeevmasand.com/reviews/our-films/misses-a-beat/

howeva the reviews cum he is a good actor he has proven it in his past two movies... if he cn get a big banner movie i think thn only his true potential cn be explored !!!😛