Why do you love to hate Rockstar? ©

Why do you love to hate Rockstar????????

Yes. You. You the person who has in the past one week updated his/her facebook status to-  “Tera HAQ..tu hi RAKH..Teri movie..WTF”..or something in the similar lines. I want to talk to you. Outright I am not a Ranbir fan or an Imtiaz Ali fan or for that matter even a fan of A.R Rahman (you can’t believe I said that- well I did!). So this post does not come from a lover of the above mentioned people. It comes from a person who can understand atleast where Rockstar came from and is so disappointed in all of you that you can’t understand the same. It’s right in you. You have probably been Jordan at one point in your life or Heer. I mean you were not really a rockstar ever or the hottest jungali jawani loving chick but I talk from the emotion point of view.

Okay first of all, if you have never been in love. Stop reading. None of my statements are applicable for you. And researchers usually like to say it- you have been terminated because you are not the TA- target audience. This is purposive post and hence should have a purposively recruited audience. Adios Amigoes!!! For the rest read on. I am going to attempt to make you understand the movie called Rockstar.

At the start (it’s one paragraph down so hardly the start but what the hell), I would take this opportunity to point out the 3 main flaws in the movie which might have led to you not understanding the movie-

1)      Yes the editing sucks- it’s bad- it’s more than bad- it’s horrible- it’s like Imitiaz and his team were drunk on tequila when they were sitting down and editing it or smoking up a joint- that can only explain why a  movie so badly edited can hit the screens

2)      The songs- okay honestly if you think about it, they are kind of short & incomplete- good compositions but less verses

3)      And the biggest problem - The chick- yes the female. The guys probably saw the movie for her, but think about it- did she add to the movie in any way (except the hotness)? She made a simple touch and kiss scene seem like she was on the verge of reaching the promised land. Really? There was bloody over acting in every scene. She seems to have been instructed that its a porn movie every time there was a romantic scene. That was not even her own voice! Imitiaz really, whatever weird thing you have going on with foreigners just drop it already. A new Indian girl would have done wonders to the role. Or even someone like Katrina would have set the screen on fire much better.

(Please note, here the point 3 is the most text heavy- women do like to talk about other women, hence proved)

Carrying on forward from these flaws, I will still say the movie was brilliant due to just few factors- the story, to somewhat Ranbir and then the good songs did help jazz things up.

Over the last one week the main criticism I have heard about Rockstar is that Jordan is a rebel without a cause. Let me clarify this- he is NOT a rebel. He is a rockstar. An angry one. Anger does not make a person a rebel. Period.

The other criticism is that the anger in Jordan is clearly unjustified & stupid. Now to clarify this we will get into the emtoions part. After eliminating the non lovers out there we should be having the following category of people with us-

1)      Those who have loved once but not anymore

2)      Those who have loved a million times already

3)      Those who have loved once and are still in love

Love only happens once. Bullshit. When I was 11, heard Rahul (SRK) say in KKHH- “hum ek baar jite hain, ek baar marte hain, shaadi bhi ek baar hoti hai, aur pyar....ek hi baar hota ha.” Then I did believe him. That was till the end of the movie when he went ahead and married Anjali. Did that mean he never loved Tina? She was just an infatuation? Hardly. What if a girl falls in love with a guy madly deeply but he turns out to be an asshole- so it was never love for her? I think the whole love only happens once was made up years ago by uncle aunties who realized how promiscuous the coming generations could be.

While we clarified that love probably happens more than a few times, great love..well great love is all together a different thing. And the topic of another discussion.

So for those who were once in love, think about those times. The ones who have been in love with their current partner for a long time now go back to the time when you were new to falling in love with him/her. Those of us who have just fallen in love well think about now. Idea being think about love. The first rush.

Yes, so do you remember the first time your girlfriend told you she does not want to see your face again in a fight (for those of you who have been in a relationship long enough you have heard that and said that a million times already that it has lost its damn significance). Remember how angry it made you? Remember how foul a mood you were in? How you would not want to talk, or just want to go drink. Or were throwing things around? Well imagine, you had that big fight and you are walking back home and there are a million cameras in your face- what the fuck would you do- GET ANGRIER!!!

Now tell me, how many times does your girlfriend or boyfriend say do not call me or come to pick me up while you are fighting and you still go???!

Now remember those days of love, when you did not know better. When love was all that we lived for and life came second? When we could choose to let life come second. When we did not care about anyone but us. No family, no friends, nothing- only him/her. When we were rash and loved it. Did not study for a test because we were up talking the whole night to our lover or out with him/her. When we sneaked away in the middle of the night to meet them knowing if you get caught you would be screwed- but you still did it anyway? When you could spend the entire day in bed and do nothing but think about the person you love and all the time you shared together.

Well that, think of all these things, put aside the negative points and then watch the movie. It is an out to out love story under unusual circumstances and in Bollywood how many times do we see that? We can go ahead and appreciate movies like slum dog millionaire but when it comes to this we refuse to understand it. Being so angry in love and letting love be the gudiing light in your love while you hurt other people because you are too busy with it..right..or wrong..is not a question to be discussied in this post either.

At the end of this, if you still pretty much hate the movie and think this is all crap, I would like to end via a quote my friend Saiba uses when people tell her they hated Rockstar- “You just do not have deep emotions.” :P ..