SPOILER Rockstar: IMTIAZ confused on the climax

With a modern version of a toxic love story, Imtiaz Ali is faced with the dilemma of killing Ranbir Kapoor's character or keeping the actor's first on-screen death on hold.

The film is a rock-music inspired tribute to Devdas (2002). Kapoor's character cannot stop loving the woman, who does not reciprocate his feelings and reportedly develops an obsessive passion for Nargis Fakhri, who plays the modern version of the Devdas character, Paro.

A source tells us, "The script's climax originally has Ranbir's character performing on stage and dying while doing so.

It is meant to encapsulate Devdas through the self-destructive rockstar. However, Ranbir has a very youthful, very hip and trendy image and there is a line of thought about how Ranbir's target audience will react to his first-ever screen death."