![]() I have never rewatched Rock On!! and I highly doubt the movie has aged well. But overall, Rock On!! was merely a repackaged and inferior version of its lead actor Farhan Akhtar’s own directorial debut, Dil Chahta Hai (2001), where the love for music replaced love itself as a catalyst for the story.īollywood has since grown up, albeit not by as many years. The soundtrack, although embarrassingly watered-down and generic, helped – along with that of Tashan and Life In A… Metro that released the same year – usher in acceptability for the rock sound in mainstream Bollywood music, a trend that continues to this day. I’d liked, for instance, how Kapoor shot the song “Pichhle Saat Dinon Mein”, a slightly exaggerated but digestible recreation of a sweaty indoor gig. ![]() Yes, there was an admirable effort at detailing that I’d previously never witnessed in an Indian film. ![]() ![]() Rumour even had it that, in this movie, electric guitars and synths were attached to actual cables, which were in turn connected to amplifiers – in stark contrast to the time-honoured Bollywood tradition of misrepresenting the electric guitar.īut the hype ruined the film for me somewhat. Purab Kohli, who played the unnaturally excitable KD aka Killer Drummer, brings up the concept of time signature (the number of beats per bar of music) at one point, which particularly excited my Dream Theater-loving friend. Arjun Rampal’s character, the dour-faced guitarist Joe Mascarenhas, was allegedly holding chords that resembled actual guitar chords. ![]() In 2008, the week Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On!! had released, I remember witnessing a relatively unusual phenomenon: Musician friends, who fashionably hated anything remotely connected to Bollywood, were actually excited about a Hindi film.Ī junior from college, a fellow guitarist, gushed about how the makers had gotten crucial details right. ![]()
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