Saw it Yesterday. Surprisingly interesting. Plot is very realistic and still interesting. IMHO, Purab Kohli stole the show. For the first half of the film you are curious to know, what happened and once you know what happened in the past, then you want to see what's coming. And plus, there is tragic angle as well.
Even if songs lyrics are amateurish, they go with the plot as you don't expect amateur musicians to come up with deep meaning lyrics.

Film run time was 145 min aprox.
Film is doing excellent at Box Office.

Pressure is ON to make a sequel but Farhan Akhtar says No as this itself is sequel to Dil Chahta Hai ?? I don't consider it a sequel to D C H ?? May be in style ??

BTW:
Don't know good or bad, but the concert songs were just like you hear them in rock concerts. That is, you can't make out what the lyrics are saying. And that was in a theatre that doesn't have high power audio. Amazingly real but are rock concerts supposed to be this way where music is so overpowering that lyrics are kind of in the background and you can't understand the lyrics ?? I thought this was poor acoustics, but mat be it's supposed to be this way.

I saw the movie a few days ago and both myself and the wife liked it a lot. It is a really well scripted, directed and acted movie and it is movies like this that makes one believe that finally Bollywood is coming of age and may longer be trapped in the crappy film world of the Chopras and Johars. The most encouraging aspect is the huge success the film has gotten in India. Unfortunately our brethren overseas still only want to watch Salman's buffoonery and/or Shahrukh's contortions in the 'same old wine in a new bottle' movies from the likes of Farah & her brother Khan, thus, 'Rock On' has been a disaster in the overseas market. The attention, or should I say the lack of attention, the movie has gotten even on this forum, is proof of my statements above.

The movie is also technically very very good, specially considering that it is not a big budget movie. The sound, specially the sound mix is excellent and for once in an INdian movie, the surround channels are not only active almost throughout the movie but also the surrounds are used very appropriately in creating atmosphere and lcoalization of sounds. The rock performances are exceptionally well presented with the crowd cheers and chorus sounding very very real.

I personally recommend the film very strongly to one and all.

PS: Although the film has a similiar 'male bonding' and 'coming of age' theme, I fail to understand how anyone can claim or accuse the movie to be a sequel to 'Dil Chahta Hai'.

I agree 100% with Sanjay's review. Excellent and world class film. In my opinion, it could have been in English as well and it would have succeeded in the English speaking countries, main stream. Even in Hindi-English, as it is now, it would succeed in the art circuit, if released. A clean family film. No drugs, sex, alchohal, that you usually associate with rock concert theme films, and perhaps no smoking either. No romance, singing around trees etc.

It's doing fine wherever released. If it makes into art circuit, it'll succeed there too.


I too, don't consider it to be a sequel. Actually it's Farhan Akhtar himself who said that he considers it to be a sequel to Dil Chahta Hai. Can't get the original link, but I found another site that had copied that Farhan Khan news article:

It is unfortunate that these sub class/quality run of the mill, crappy hindi cinema has really made people's taste so low, that nothing quality clicks, only escapist crap.

On the other end, music is on its LOWEST LEVEL right now! Where Preetam and Reshmiya sell, or whoever try to copy them.

I am glad on my part totally taken my hands clean of Reshmiya, but there is nothing quality to listen these days period.

Rock..music some how did not gel with me as those songs all start sounding the same without any variety or variation. Music is Doomed, films are running because of hollywoodish copy ishtyle. Actors are also on their nadir also imho.

i watched this in a theatre and quite liked it. and in the cinema, the music sounded great! me and friends thoroughly enjoyed it despite it being predictable at times.

FINALLY caught it... and don't regret waiting. It was more often than not BORING. Not a patch on the brilliance of DCH.

Three things held me back from seeing the movie earlier, and my bias/fears were proven right for all of them:
1) As mentioned by others, the music is amateurish. Not so much the tunes by SEL, but most definitely Farhan's annoying voice. My wife and I were shocked they used it in the movie. Yeah, it gives the movie a realistic vibe, but honestly, it was one of the key reasons I never rooted for the success of Magik, which I think was critical for the audience. "Yeh Tumhaari Meri Baatein" was the one beautiful exception, but no prizes for guessing that Mr. Akhtar's voice was nowhere to be found. I'm amazed the soundtrack sold so well too. Maybe it underscores that listeners are not as discerning about voices any more??
2) Farhan is no actor. Yeah, the guy is versatile and can do several things now including writing, singing and direction, but I don't think he's great at anything other than direction. And even there, his brilliance piqued with DCH and has been languishing since. Actually, several of Rock On's characters are non-actors. Lucky for the director, Prachi Desai, Shahana Goswami and Purab Kohli compensated for the lack of talent in the others.
3) Abhishek Kapoor's Aryan was a dreery and tedious Rocky rip-off. And he suffers from the same directorial flaw as Kunal Kohli and Shaad Ali: their film's scenes take too long to get to the point. Sorry to say, I'm just not as patient a viewer as others may be, unless the scene has something brilliant to say. On a positive note though, Shaad has begun to work on this flaw and Abhishek still packed Rock On with a few engaging sequences. Unfortunately, for Kohli, there's no hope.

6/10

did not Ashutosh Gwarikor tried his l8uck with acting etc when he had his head full lol

what you say is more of a scripting/screenplay thing rather than direction... no?

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