ROCKed on

Some stories are meant to be recited. And some, are meant to be brought up on celluloid. Man needs his dosage of visual tonic, periodically. Be it, in the form of words or a theater... After a long spell of gaudy cinema, a movie comes along, which erases the I-have-lost-hope-in-hindi-movies feeling.... An elixir to bad cinema. Yes, ROCK ON could be one such. It is a good movie, but it left me waiting for something...

I wonder, how the story could have been told if it was written as a novel. Undoubtedly, it would be more intense.

Every story whether on screen or in words, every performance, be it any form, will be characterised by that one high point; the zenith of intensity and passion, the climax that encompasses in itself the kernel of the entire story, the apogee which carries the weight of the enactment... ROCK ON lacked only that. The entire movie was on a high... From the start till the end, it was driven by adrenalin, pumping into the veins of the movie and setting its tempo on a high.

ROCK ON was on a perpetual high, never letting its audience soak in the characters. They came (with a bang), they sang (on a high) and they left (just like that). The characters of the movie were not projected enough to immortalise them. I can barely remember their names now. I do remember the names of Siddharth, Akash and Sameer. Maybe the intention of Farhan Akhtar was to only tell a story of MAGIK and not to eternalize himself as Aditya. Maybe he did not want to do to ROCK ON what he did to Dil chahata hain.

ROCK ON lacked the camaraderie that was the selling point of Dil Chahata hain. All love was lost between the protagonists. I wanted Aditya to break down when his wife berates him for living his life grudgingly. I wanted him to seek solace in his friends and use music as a nostrum. But, I was left waiting. However, I still remember the scene when Akash leaving the garb of his ego goes back to Siddharth and Shalini... Aditya never did that. ROCK ON only lacked this.