Rockstar – Hindi Movie

After eating awesome Vada Pao (Potato patty), we decided to go for a movie. Hollywood theaters is like a 5 minute drive from my apartment so as always we started 30 minutes prior to the show. Didn’t have to wait in line for long to buy the tickets. We rushed inside the cinema hall and to my surprise the entire back rows were already occupied. Felt like people have been sitting inside for a while. Disappointed because of not getting back row seat we made ourselves comfortable in the fourth row from the screen.What a bummer. Felt like we were watching the movie in IMAX.

Storyline-

The movie starts with an awesome song showcasing briefly the phases through which JJ, called as Jordan in later part of the movie, goes through during his flourishing yet pitiful career. Jordan is a small town lad who realizes that he is missing the ‘X’ factor because there is no pain, any kind of sorrow or suffering in his life. In short he wanted some tragedy and that’s when he tries to get his heart broken by Heera (played by Nargis Fakhri) who is getting married in couple of months. Little did he know that he has to fall in love with her to get his heart broken. Eventually, in first half of the movie they get along well as friends and become partners in sin that Heera wanted to commit before getting married.

Later in the movie Heera gets married and settled in Czech Republic Prague. Meanwhile, Jordan manages to grab a contract with recording studio and gets a chance to visit Heera yet again. After meeting Heer, Jordan realizes that Heer is not a happy camper and has been dealing with some psychological issues. In later half of the movie, a passionate romance flourishes between Jordan and Heer while Jordan is climbing to reach his dream of becoming a Rockstar. However, Jordan fails to understand that he loves Heer. Eventually their love story becomes complicated and Heer decides to part ways because the romance was not going anywhere and her commitment to her husband.

During the eventful story, Jordan unknowingly builds up an angry young man image who gets into trouble all the time because of  his frustration and impolite behavior. After parting ways with Jordan, Heer’s health deteriorates further and once again our hero steps in and tries to save her by providing her with mental and emotional support. But eventually ends up making the condition even worse.

Jordan accomplishes what he was aiming for and becomes a Rockstar with lot of agony and pain that he will have to live with for rest of his life.

Performances -

Hats off to Ranbir Kapoor. I am pretty sure he will be nominated and will win the best actor category in all the award functions. Nargis Fakhri looks pretty and dances well. She lacks the most important competency, acting. She reminds me of Katrina Kaif during her first movies.

Music -

I don’t think I need to say anything about the music when A. R. Rahman and Mohit Chauhan are involved. Yet again they created magic and outstanding music. The songs are very catchy and youthful at the same time compliments the script. Music has a Sufi soul.

In short -

The movie is average and worth watching once to give justice to Ranbir’s acting skills. I personally loved the movie, one of the reasons being I saw Ra One last week which was a mental torture . I felt that Rockstar is a fresh movie and I would have liked it even more if they made it a bit shorter, to the point and without some baseless and senseless dialogues. The movie tends to loose audience after intermission (later half of the movie) but Ranbir manages to bring them back. The movie ends without conclusion and leaves audience wondering about what happened to Jordan and Heer.

Past & Present India Trip Plans

 While talking to my Mother today, I realized that I am approximately a month away from my India trip. I am very excited to go back after 3.5 years.

Not that I didn’t feel like visiting my home country all this time but circumstances held me back two times. Fortunately, every time I planned India trip something good happened to me and I had to cancel my plans.  

Feels like yesterday when I booked $500 British Airways return ticket to India. Yes, believe it or not $500 return tickets to Mumbai thanks to British Airways goof up. If I remember correctly, it was December 2009 and that was the first time my plan of visiting my family failed. That day, every Indian student was either on laptop trying to book the $500 ticket or on call with other friends to spread the news (of course after having secured a seat on Aircraft first ) Unfortunately, British Airways didn’t honor the ticket and gave us a $100 gift certificate which I never used. What a bummer. On the positive side, I secured a GA position in Wind Engineering with full tuition and fee waiver. So I ended up cancelling my plan of visiting India.

After graduation I secured a full time job. Life was good. Approximately 10 months later I accumulated enough vacation time to plan a visit to India for 3 weeks. Around same time I started interviewing for my dream job. As I mentioned earlier, good things happen to me when I start planning India trip. I got the job and as I was in the process of transitioning to my new position, I had to drop my plans of visiting India.

Did I miss my family all this time; the answer is “YES”? Am I disappointed for not being able to go back to India all this time; the answer is “NO”. Time passed by real quick, feels like yesterday when I came to US to pursue masters in Industrial Engineering. Now when I think about last 3.5 years I realize that I didn’t get time to be home sick or cry about not being able to visit my family. It’s been a fun filled roller coaster ride so far!!!! I must admit people around me made it very easy.  Thanks to all my friends, bosses and colleagues.

Here I am planning India trip again. Let’s see if I make it to India this time while a good event is working mysteriously on making my life happier and comfortable !!!!

ABOUT ME

I plead guilty of stealing a quote posted on my friends profile and made it the mission and vision for my career and life – “Life is like a race and I am not here to take a morning walk”. In this fast paced world I make every effort to stay ahead but I fail, overcome hurdles but I fall and try to be most knowledgeable person in a clan but I find myself to be the dumbest but I get back up and fight harder.

Everybody is proud of their parents and other family members and I am no exception. I am blessed with loving and caring parents who since my childhood strived hard to provide and fulfill all my needs, wants and demands even if that meant sacrificing their own dreams. While growing up, my sister kept me good company, put up to my nuisance and torture while reverting back in similar manner. I leant a lot from my parents, sister and rest of the extended family.

So far life has not been easy but has always been fair and I love my life. If I recapture past, I achieved most of whatever I dreamed and I am pretty sure I will achieve whatever I am dreaming about at this moment in future.

Usually, I get along with people very well. I don’t mind going an extra mile for the people I care for, provided I get love and respect I deserve in return. Generally I am good at making friends but just a little bit bad at keeping them.

I like movies, traveling, eating, cooking, working out, swimming, talking and reading. Of course how can I forget shopping? After all it constitutes a large percentage of my spending habits.

With this blog/website, I would like to share whatever I feel like since wordpress gave me rights and privileges of posting and editing. Of course as a reader you have every right to criticize, comment, ignore and like my posts.

Happy reading and blogging!!!!