Rockstar (2011)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Nice effects though.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Music by Oscar winner A.R. Rahman carries a convoluted love story written and directed by Imtiaz Ali.Delhi boy Janardan (Ranbir Kapoor ) and exotic Kashmiri girl Heer (newcomer Nargis Fakhri) meet as students in a Delhi college. Heer dubs him "Jordan," and the name sticks. Jordan is a bit of a nerd, but he has music in him; the one thing he's missing, according to an old friend, is angst. "Nobody can make great art until they've experienced real pain," says his friend. When a family misunderstanding ends up with Jordan thrown out of his family's home, he seeks refuge at Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, sleeping on its floors with other city outcasts and eating the simple, free food from its kitchen. Gradually, the charity he experiences there and the power of its Sufi music change Jordan, and — guitar in hand — he learns to hone his craft by playing for whatever audience will have him, be it a shrine full of Muslim worshipers or a Hindu gathering, random listeners on the street or even the prostitutes in a local brothel. These scenes are the absolute high point of the film, sparked with Rahman's inspired music and convincing guitar and vocal performances by Kapoor (with the dubbed vocals of singer Mohit Chauhan ). Technical aspects are well handled, especially Anil Mehta 's camera work capturing the grand vistas of Kashmir, Dharamsala, Delhi and Prague (the film was shot in association with the Czech Republic's film commission). Guitar wonderland Orianthi Panagaris (This Is It) lends her blazing licks to the film's background score as well. One incongruous image sticks in the mind. During the film's most blistering rock anthem, Jordan sings to an audience of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's home in exile. The careful viewer will note that a banner in the background that reads "Free Tibet" has been digitally blurred out — at the orders of India's censor board, reportedly bowing to Chinese government pressure. The song Jordan sings in the scene, "Sadda Haq," speaks about freedom and truth. Director Imtiaz Ali has not spoken out publicly about the issue, but young Indians have been vocal in appreciating its irony. Real piece of cinema!~Emily

As I am great fan of A R Rahman, I watched this movie. After watching, I have been astonished the way Muhit Chouhan sings and Ranbir Kapoor acts. A R Rahman always compose his music by his heart but the implementation of Chauhan is awesome as well as the acting, the real Rockstar acting of Ranbir, is marvelous. I always follow A R Rahman from his composition of 'Roja'. I like very much the little musician from south India. Bollywood produces bunch number of movies every year, low quality music, copy from other musician intentionally or without intentionally, very third class lyrics and singers also. But exceptions are found when A R Rahman comes. Next comes to Imtiaz Ali. I think he did research properly in musical movies to come to action of this movie. As he is not typical like any other director of Bollywood, Rockstar proves that also. He is very talented indeed and with another musical talent A R Rahman, he blasts. And I became a fan of Ranbir Kapoor who is from a cinema background family, his father is Rishi Kapoor. His Jordan look in this movie is just awesome. He delivered successfully the thinking of A R Rahman and Imtiaz Ali as well as great singing of Muhit Chauhan.I didn't listen Muhit Chauhan so much but in this movie, I totally enjoyed. I searched for other music of him and found that he sings very well.I would like to rate as 1. Music 10/10 2. Film 7/10 3. Acting 8/10 4. Story 7/10

This shows that storytelling does not have to be in a format or pattern and yet you can be sssooo effective. Imtiaz brought us an immensely fresh style of storytelling. And his creative vision was well supported by the rest of the team members. Ranbir- He well operated the character and fit himself into it perfectly. He is so troubled as Jordan and so innocence as Janardan. He displays the transition to his character so well. He's defined an emotionally troubled Rockstar. A R Rahman- I think he was there with Imtiaz when he was writing the film or working on the plot to be more precise. Because songs and background scores don't give a feeling that they are an added feature in the story, instead they breath in it and make it ssoo Powerful. Anil Mehta- Cinematography is just so in sync with the scenes that it does magic for the viewers. Editing, singing, acting by the rest of the cast were all Marvelous. It was a delight to watch Late Shammi Kapoor as a Shehnaayi player. His dialogue delivery still had a charisma. And how can we forget that 'Tareef karoon kya uski' track performed by Ranbir...So beautiful. The climax was icing on the cake. A grand salute to the Captain Imtiaz.

When the movie got released, many complained that they didn't like it for various reasons. But mainly coz of its so called abrupt ending that they didn't like. I think it was misunderstood and even a bit mis-realized at the very first place. Don't know somebody has thought of it or not, but the blame for this comes down on two things -1)Strong role, weak actress : the whole life of Jordan was revolving around this girl he loved. She played the strongest part in his life and the film's story. This role required a lot of conviction and expertise of an accomplished actress. But what we got instead, a new comer calendar girl who was a new joinee into kindergarten acting school. I believe that was the biggest mistake made by Imtiaz. Selecting Nargis Fakhri for such an important role that was the basis of super-strong performance of Ranbir and his music (one of bests of AR Rahman). Nargis tried her very best and gave a pretty decent performance for a new comer, but, infront of these very strong people, she looked completely out of place.2)Marketing: Sadda Haq, yes this song was great and all. But using this song as the prime weapon of publicity was a blunder b'coz the movie was a love story and this song set the mood otherwise. I heard many people saying that we expected that Jordan would be a rebel against the corrupt system (in the League of Rang De Basanti). There are no 2 thoughts about it, it was a very personal and intimate movie, but in contrast, Sadda Haq was a totally rebellious and crowd-pulling song and not apt for marketing the movie. Also, the whole movie was thought of to be presented as Jordan(Ranbir) being the sole driver of the story. But in fact, he was driven by Heer(Nargis) at each step. And as I already said, she was no match to what the role demanded. The movie would have been so better if they would have got an accomplished actress instead of a newcomer. With Ranbir, AR Rahman, Imtiaz Ali and Mohit Chauhan, bars were already very high for this movie, why don't they seriously thought while selecting the main lead actress also, i don't know. They should have given equal weightage to lead actress too. Then the ending would have been more clear and satisfying. B'coz movie doesn't end with Jordan's life, it ends with Heer's life and explaining "when and where" Jordan and Heer will live happy together, forever.Still after these flaws, it is 1 of my personal favorites of all time. And i give it 9/10 (minus 1 for Nargis). This is what we call "one step behind the true perfection". But apart from these reasons, it is truly a great effort by Imtiaz and and i would like to congratulate Ranbir n Mohit for this particular movie.