Nov 05, 2011 10:42 AM
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Rock On *starts off, with a flashback about four friends - Aditya Shroff(Farhan Akhtar), Rob Nancy(Luke Kenny), Joe Mascarenhas(Arjun Rampal) and Kedar Zaveri aka KD for Killer Drummer(Purab Kohli winning a battle of the bands talent competition.
The movie flits between them as they are now, and then, and what went wrong.
Aditya is an investment banker making potloads of money helping the rich get richer by banking on a booming India; KD sits in inefficiently at his father's jewellery business; Joe clutches his guitar as a failed musician would - and does pretty much nothing else anyway - when his wife Debbie(Sahana Goswami) yells at him in a typical Anglo-Indian family. Only Rob has stuck with playing music, doing sessions for directors like Anu Malik(who puts in a cameo as himself).Aditya's wife Sakshi(Prachi Desai) senses something is wrong with her husband and their picture perfect life together. Aditya is a tormented soul, as are his bandmates, flung apart by fate, ego, and formula-fixated music industry execs who would not recognise quality music if it danced naked in front of them.
Sakshi discovers Aditya's musical past through a clutch of old photographs. And she tries to get the band together again, because in those photographs she has seen her husband for real: A far cry from the workaholic zombie he is now. But, as always, there are past demons to be battled, new challenges to be overcome - separated friends coming back together when their lives have changed; tension between two buddies over one past incident.
What sets director Abhishek Kapoor's sophomore film apart is the attention to detail, some great ensemble acting, and pure heart. It's a movie that will make you laugh and cry, and realise why man has discovered water on Mars but not been able to discover a 13th note.
Its a must watch movie by all.
