Genre: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Direction: Imtiaz Ali
Lead: Ranbir Kapoor
Ranbir is truly natural. A very commendable acting by him, though not that good by Nargis Fakhri. The movie is brilliantly directed by Imtiaz and also filled with natural dialogues.
The plot is quite unique but the storyline not that much. The main plot is that an uninhibited youth deeply desires to be a star in music, but lacks inspiration. And this movie is the road of that dumb and decent fellow towards becoming the Rockstar that the title promises, and this journey is not an easy one, but filled with a lot of self-destruction. The road begins with him falling in love with a girl, which consumes the first half of the movie, which goes on like a typical Bollywood chick flick, with a better writing though. This part is as usual entertaining.
The second half, again as most of the Bollywood movies go, turns the happy-go-lucky lead into the real world filled with dramatic sequences. This is where the story gets a bit dull. The direction stays good but the portrayal of the lead's mindset gets a bit groggy. The pace reduces drastically and it gets a little boring.
Given the storyline, I expected much better songs though. The songs have been too much hyped. The lyrics are good but neither the music not voice stood up to my expectations. I had an entire Rock On theme in mind, but not everyone can be Farhan Akhtar when it comes to singing or writing.
The only thing that I couldn't get over was that it felt like watching Jab We Met all over again. At many times, you will feel exact resemblance in the scenes and the story. The actress does some crazy adventurous things with the actor, they fall in love, but the actress already has her wedding planned, the actor becomes a great friend and meets the actress' family and lends a hand in the wedding preparations, the actress looks from some window how the actor has got involved with the family, she starts to have second thoughts, she falls in love with him and so on... It's like the same movie, with an addition of the music.
The humor is good though. The punches are comical. This is quite the contrary to most of the Bollywood movies, which have terrible sense of humor and good drama. This has better comedy but lacks the pinnacle of dramatic feel that was very much needed in the story. The ending was beautiful; a lovely touch that's hardly seen in Bollywood. To sum up, it was a good watch.
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