SPOILER Rockstar: IMTIAZ confused on the climax - Page 3

wow what a buzz kill that was

hmm...i think ...isnt his last movie 'LAK' was itself confusing?? 🤔 so m not surprised.....

Originally posted by: -Maddy-

Between life and death

Imtiaz Ali doubts if Ranbir Kapoor's very first on-screen death will be a suitable climax for Rockstar

Subhash K Jha

Posted On Monday, March 07, 2011 at 03:33:49 AM

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." Imtiaz Ali The source goes on to give us more details about the script, saying, "Basically Rockstar is a rock version of Devdas. The hero is an arrogant but sensitive soul who feels his life as an artiste is incomplete without love. He decides to fall in love, just to enhance his repertoire of emotions as a musician. However, the problem arises when Ranbir's character conditions himself to fall in love as an emotion-enhancing device and ends up actually in love, never to get back on his feet again."

I haven't read it, I haven't read it 🥳 Reading comments first @ times comes in handy 😆