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ROCKSTAR does not live up to the confidence and expectations from the otherwise very skilled and accomplished film-maker Imtiaz Ali. The film suffers immensely due to a disorderly screenplay, especially in its post-interval portions. However, the silver lining or the comforting prospect is the virtuoso performance by Ranbir Kapoor and the captivating score by A.R. Rahman, which justify that one extra star.
again 1 extra star 4 rehman nd ranbir..
November 11, 2011 Y. Sunita Chowdary
Nargis Fakri marks her debut with Rockstar; She might resemble Katrina Kaif in many ways but in looks and expressions she is far better than what Katrina was in her first few films. Her role required her to be a woman of blithe spirit and the chemistry between both the actors was palpable. She plays a woman Heer Kaul who is about to be married and is not averse to the friendship offered by Janardhan Jakhar. Both of them enjoy all the wild things, freak out and are also conscious about their status and future.
Janardhan doesn't measure upto Heer in any manner, be it education, culture and society and has not yet made a career. The struggling guitarist now as Jordon soon joins the married Heer in Prague and the passion is rekindled. This part of the film has been shot well, the passion between the actors comes alive. But for a moment we wonder if it is Ranbir Kapoor or Emraan Hashmi who's playing the lead because there is lust in the actor's eyes and everytime he sees the girl, he grabs her.
Love could be an undercurrent but passion dominates. The actor's changing look is stunning and goes with the narrative. The director is very crystal clear about what he wants to say about the lead character, i.e., he is restless, impatient, craves for her and doesn't derive the satisfaction of wealth and status without her presence. The first part of the story has been well narrated but only in the latter part it gets flawed, slows down.
Was Heer suffereing from a terminal disease or was she in depression because of her secret affair and role conflict as a wife and lover because of which she sought to consult a psychiatrist? It isn't clear. Plus, the police beating him up, his constant scuffle, the paparazzi and the media bashing is a bit over bearing. Ranbir Kapoor as Rockstar is amazing, it is just not about the role he portarys but how he does it, it isn't about just holding the guitar, one sees a born musician in him.
Screenplay is tad irritating, Rockstar is another love story that is set against a music backdrop. It reminds us of Venkatesh-Revathi's Prema but the end here is again confusing and convoluted. Does the Rockstar go through the curse of hurting Heer as a member in a family puts it or does the pain in his heart bring out a rocking song? The locations in Kashmir, Prague are stunning. All in all, the film rocks in parts before nose-diving irrevocably.
One time watch definitely for Ranbir Kapoor, the terrific screen presence of Ms Nargis Fakhri, and to check out what's in Sadda Haq!
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Kumud Mishra
Indian Express rating:**
Here it is, the new film of the new Bollywood boy wonder. And true to type, the actor is better than the film. 'Rockstar' disappoints; Ranbir doesn't.
Brash Jat fellow Janardan (Kapoor), who's dubbed Jordan by his flirty-but-not-quite girl-friend Heer (Fakhri) , wants to be like his idol, Jim Morrison. To which end, he is to be found sitting in various Delhi University campus spots, strumming a guitar. Humming ballads, and stalking girls with an exaggerated drop of the jaw, is not exactly a rockstar's thing. But let's not get picky, okay? A 'rockstar' is what you call a person who is aces in his field, okay?
Only when he's experienced true love, the pain and the pleasure of it, will he be able to sing with feeling, says a middle-aged gent (Mishra) with blinding originality, with whom Janardan/ Jordan hangs out a lot. Therefore, J goes off to H, and 'proposes her' in good, if laboured Jatboy style, having of course decided to fall in love with her at first glance. Till about here, say twenty minutes in, 'Rockstar' looks as if there may be something in it, despite the familiar post-teen love tropes that Ali sets up. We're still trying on new girl Fakhri for size, just as her hero is, and keeping an open mind.
But shortly after, the film nosedives. The second half is a mess, as it travels picturesquely but cluelessly from Kashmir to Prague in search of ideas. And it goes on for much too long, as we wait for something better to happen. Nothing of the sort does. Whatever happened to Imtiaz's sure-footedness which made 'Jab We Met' such a breeze ? Shakiness was evident in his next 'Love Aaj Kal'. Here, he seems to have very little idea of how to get his lovers to smoulder despite the liplocks : most of the romance feels constructed, and contrived.
The chief culprit here, apart from the sloppy, disjointed writing, is the new girl, and her ultra-mobile mouth. Nargis Fakhri seems to be in the exact same mould of the fair-skinned creature of 'Love Aaj Kal'. At least Giselle Monteiro did demure well, Fakhri is strictly pretty-and-vapid-and-vacuous, easy on the eyes, but hard to watch. The only one who stands out from the largely-superfluous supporting cast is the hair-slicked-with-oil, side-parted Mishra, who stands by Jordan when he is sliding down the abyss all rage-fulled rockstars vanish. Exactly what is Jordan so angry about? One moment Jordan is struggling with his unsupportive family, and fighting off cops, the next he's a rebel rocker, complete with screaming crowds of fangirls, and people wanting to free their enslaved countries, and souls, without any convincing connectives. Just when did that happen? A R Rahman's music is also not his best; only a couple of tracks stand out. And just who dreamt up the rockstar's costumes? Those Turkish pants, that khaki topi, and that hair? Seriously?
Finally, you are left with Ranbir, who walks past the parts in which he lets the effort show'the Jatness keeps slipping, and keeps getting put back in place--- with some inspired patches. He is the only reason you could, if you want to, watch 'Rockstar'.
shubhra.gupta@expressindia.com
All soul, no spine
Film: Rockstar
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri
Rating:
It begins on an electric note, the big, bad rockstar escaping from a fight, hair blowing in the wind as he races through the streets of Rome (or is it Prague?) to jump straight into a crowd waiting for him. From then on, it goes downhill, and spectacularly so.
Imtiaz Ali has discovered his baroque side and it is a terrible thing to behold. Everything is in excess. Ranbir Kapoor as Janardhan Jakhar, the naive Haryanvi boy trying to flirt with Heer Kaul, the elusive St Stephen's beauty, is too much of a buffoon, and as Jordan, the angry rocker, he's a little too raging bull. Newbie Nargis Fakhri is painful to watch, her mobile mouth overpowering her face, never quite pulling off the "neat and clean" stunner who wants to get her hands and feet dirty with a bit of rough and absolutely cringingly bad as the unhappy wife whose life is slowly slipping away.
And whenever I see Shernaz Patel in any movie these days, it is an automatic Sanjay Leela Bhansali alert: I know there's trouble ahead and it will involve several medical/legal issues which she will try explaining to the audience ("the blood count is improving" or "it's a miracle") but fail.
Ali has crafted the film as one long song, and nowhere in recent times has the music integrated so well with what he is trying to say. Whether it is Kun Faaya Kun where Janardhan discovers the power of music, or the gorgeous jugalbandi between Shammi Kapoor on shehnai and Ranbir on guitar where you can see two different kinds of talent on display--one natural, almost animal-like, another refined, spiritually-inclined--AR Rahman's music is the soul of the film. What is missing is the spine, leaving just a jelly in place.
Ali's trademark obsessions are on full display -- travel for one. Jakhar discovers Heer and Kashmir on a motorcycle, he makes his grandest rockstar-like gestures coming out of a car or in a van (the only time the sultry Aditi Rao Hydari is allowed to burn on screen, mocking Ranbir's studly image). And spirited girls -- few filmmakers have plumbed the hidden spirit of good girls as he has -- whether it was Geet in Jab We Met or Meera in Love Aaj Kal. Girls who do as their families tell them but whose individuality is strong and fierce. But Nargis Fakhri is an utter failure at capturing that essence -- as Heer she was to be both wilful and wild, enigmatic and tragic. Try as you will to like her, her mouth gets in the way. She is the reason for Jordan's existence, at least as Ali must have envisaged it on paper, but here she is just an irritating presence, who just happens to look good in phirans and Kashmiri shawls, which is the extent of research Ali has done on Kashmir, peopling a Kashmiri Pandit wedding with scores of Muslim relatives.
There are moments of great beauty in the film. The heart-stopping duet between Shammi Kapoor and Ranbir; the Kun Faaya Kun song in the Nizamuddin dargah; the hilarious massage scene involving a leopard print underwear-clad music baron, Piyush Mishra; or even Ranbir dancing in a trance at a nightclub, transported into another world. But instead of taking the audience along on his journey of pain, the audience is increasingly frustrated. Too many things are left unexplained. How does Janardhan become such a symbol of rage -- does it really just take a single act of breaking in and entering a foreign country to make him the emblem of Free Tibet, angry Kashmiris and angry Khalistanis? Why does Heer not just run away with him?
I think one problem with the film is that it is about a grand passion, and mainstream Hindi cinema is not equipped to show a grand romance except in the most inane form. So while the young couple kiss each other with great gusto, they can't do much more. Ali's journey into the recesses of an artist's soul remains superficial, amplified only by its tokens -- a phiran in Kashmir, a group of gypsies in Prague, a Haryanvi haveli for Delhi's semi-urbanites. Planes, cars, motorcycles. Take whatever mode of transport you will, you come right back to the single fact: this is a film that lacks discipline. All the Rumi quotations of the world cannot provide either.
Originally posted by: tomnjerry2
bad mouthing a movie good/bad has bcum a practice now.. not good for film industry !!! 🥱
Keep-------------------Smiling !!!😊
Couldnt agree more! Its like "hey, there's so many positive reviews coming in, that sucks, so I'm gonna balance it out by circulating all the negative reviews cos you know, balance is key to a happy life" 😵😆
The single release this week has taken the audience by storm in most domestic circuits and is expected to collect the highest-ever first-day for lead actor Ranbir Kapoor.
For Kapoor, Raajneeti has been his highest opener, earning Rs 10.40 crore in its first day. But his solo highest opening was Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, which raked in Rs 6.7 crore in its first day. Now with Rockstar, the Imtiaz Ali-Ranbir Kapoor Jodi has created magic at the box office.
On Rockstar's first-day performance, Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combines in Mumbai says, "Rockstar took a fabulous opening, especially in multiplexes and A-class centres. The film will definitely earn around Rs 10 crore on day one."
In Gujarat, Ajay Bagbai of Rajvi Traders says, "The film had an opening of 90 per cent in Gujarat. The reports are really good and it will be the biggest first-day opening for Kapoor. Rockstar will wrap up day one at over Rs 8 crore."
In Delhi-UP, G D Mehta of Bobby Arts International adds, "Rockstar has done good business in metro cities. Its numbers are very impressive in A-class cities and in multiplexes and it also took a decent opening in B- and C-class centres. The weekend is something to look forward to."
In East Punjab, Surendra Saluja of Lakshya Movies remarks, "Rockstar is a film for the classes, not the masses. It will be the biggest-ever opening for Ranbir Kapoor. The film will earn Rs 40 lakh in its first day in our region."
In Orrisa, Jeetu Khandelwal of Movie Pioneers says, "The film is doing well in big centres like Cuttack and Bhubaneswar but not in small centers." Khandelwal predicts that the film will generate business worth Rs 3 lakh on day one in the Orrisa circuit.
In Nizam, Dilip Tandon of Indra Films says, "In big centers, the gilm has done phenomenal business and the weekend will be extraordinary. In Nizam, Rockstar will earn Rs 50 lakhs today. It will be a very good opening for Ranbir Kapoor and, yes, it will be his biggest first-day collection."
http://www.boxofficeindia.co.in/rockstar-record-opening-for-ranbir/
In Orrisa, Jeetu Khandelwal of Movie Pioneers says, "The film is doing well in big centres like Cuttack and Bhubaneswar but not in small centers." Khandelwal predicts that the film will generate business worth Rs 3 lakh on day one in the Orrisa circuit.
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https://x.com/umairsandu/status/1954950592771895651?s=46 Tis is review thread ?
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