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Rockstar is a 2011 Hindi musical film directed by Imtiaz Ali, starring Ranbir Kapoor and debutant Nargis Fakhri, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. Eros International Ltd. co-produces the film with Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. Shammi Kapoor makes his last silver screen appearance in this film. The film released on 11 November 2011 to mixed reviews.^[3]

Plot

The film opens with Janardhan Jakhar a.k.a JJ/Jordan (Ranbir Kapoor) making a rock star entrance, in a stadium concert in Prague. Janardan, born and brought up in the very middle class locality of Pitampura in Delhi, has a larger than life dream of being a rockstar like Jim Morrison. But all he gets from his reluctant audience is ridicule and humiliation. His College canteen head makes him realize that all musicians, or all artists in fact, have one thing in common. That is "tragedy" and they all have suffered painful heartbreaks to become what they are. Whereas Janardhan resents the fact that he has no pain in his life. Hoping to pursue pain, Janardan flirts with serial heart-breaker and college hottie, Kashmiri girl Heer Kaul (Nargis Fakhri). While Heer refuses his proposal, with Janardan trying to be heart-broken. However both Janardan and Heer get friendly following several awkward proposals, with both bonding over doing wild things like drinking desi alcohol, watching B-grade porn in seedy theatre halls, etc.
It's Heer's wedding in Kashmir, with Janardhan helping her out in Shopping, etc after they enjoy a bike ride in Kashmir. The wedding leads to Heer’s departure to Prague with her husband (Moufid Aziz). Janardhan is however clobbered and thrown out of his house for attending Heer’s wedding. He takes refuge for two months in Nizamuddin Dargah where he spends some time making a living babbling bhajans, followed by taking refuge in his college canteen head's home. Janardhan Jakhar becomes Jordan, a revolutionary solo artist, as he heads to Prague for a song recording, where reunites with Heer. After few dance and songs to amuse the country’s tourism board, Jordan and Heer finally intimate. Heer also suffers from psychiatric issues and is finally diagnosed with a form of terminal bone marrow.
Jordan on departing to India, he attempts to say "bye" to Heer, where he is arrested by Cops and is brought to India, with media putting himself in bad light. Being frustrated, Jordan clashes media persons and Indian Police and later is sent to jail. Dhingra (Piyush Mishra), owner of Platinum Music, is happy about the publicity he had got because of Jordan. Soon he records typical Indian music songs along with Ustad Jameel Khan (Shammi Kapoor). Before his live perfomance, he receives a call from Mandy (Heer's younger sister) asking him to help Heer as the later is seriously unwell. Neena Kaul (Shernaz Patel) angry on her daughter's plan, asks Jordan to leave her house. For her surprise, Heer recovers because of Jordan and so they fly again from Prague to India along with her sister. On reaching, Jordan again clashes with media people as they link him with Heer, stating that she is already married to another person. Heer and Mandy depart for Prague, however her body condition worsens as she reaches coma stage, with shockingly pregnant because of Jordan. He is called to Prague again by Mandy hoping that she recovers but doesn't. The film ends with Jordan performing "Nadaan Parindey", as he feels Heer is with him in the stage, however not.

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor as Janardhan Jakhar / Jordan / JJ
Nargis Fakhri as Heer
Shammi Kapoor as Ustad Jameel Khan
Aditi Rao Hydari as Sheena
Moufid Aziz as Nargis Fakhri's husband^[4]
Kumud Mishra as Khatana
Piyush Mishra as Dhingra
Shernaz Patel as Neena Kaul

Production

Casting

The lead role is played by Ranbir Kapoor, with whom the Eros International worked recently on Anjaana Anjaani. Director Imtiaz Ali, who loved Kareena Kapoor's performance in his Jab We Met wanted to cast her in Rockstar. However, the script in Rockstar required some romantic scenes between the romantic leads. As Ranbir and Kareena happened to be cousins, this would have been a problem. Moreover, the filmmakers could not imagine replacing Ranbir with any other actor as the character that Ranbir Kapoor plays in Rockstar was tailor made for him. They then made a joint decision to let go of their plan to cast Kareena in Rockstar.^[5] Eventually American model Nargis Fakhri was cast as the female lead.^[6] The film would also mark Shammi Kapoor's last appearance in a feature film who had died on August 14, 2011.^[7]

Filming

The lead character Jordan is loosely based on Imtiaz Ali's Jat friend, who lived in a small settlement in Pitam Pura.^[8] The shooting began in May 2010 and the film is scheduled to release on 11 November 2011. The major part of the shooting took place at locations in Kashmir at Kulgam, Kupwara, Srinagar and last phase has been shot in Delhi including, Kotla Mubarakpur, Nizamuddin Dargah, Greater Kailash, Munirka, Indira Gandhi International Airport, Madangir DDA and Connaught Place, and three-day schedule at the Shri Ram College of Commerce, St. Stephen's College, followed by one at the Hindu College, director Imtiaz Ali's alma mater, during the winter break of these colleges.^[9] The film was shot in reverse as the crew didn't want to break the continuity of Ranbir's hairstyle. So the climax with long hair was shot first.^[8] Kapoor had to take many efforts to transform himself into a rockstar: he practised guitar at A. R. Rahman's studio for many days, read Kurt Cobain's biography and familiarised himself with Jats.^[10]
Film's costumes were designed by Aki Narula, who dressed lead Ranbeer in "small-town denim-and-sweater combination and later, pathani-style kurtas with arm bands" completing the rockstar look, as the designer said, "I dress the character in what the character can afford." ^[11] The film's lead actress, Nargis Fakhri, who plays the role of a Kashmiri Pandit girl, will be seen wearing a traditional Kashmiri Pandit wedding outfit. Great attention was given to detail in portraying a typical Kashmiri Pandit bride, with Nargis wearing the traditional Pandit Pheran, Dejhor (ear ornament worn by Kashmiri Pandit brides) and Taranga (head cap worn underneath the veil by Kashmiri Pandit brides).^[12] This is the first time in Bollywood that a Kashmiri Pandit wedding will be shown.^[13]

Soundtrack

Main article: Rockstar (soundtrack)

The music for the film is scored by A. R. Rahman replacing Imtiaz Ali's previous associate, Pritam. The soundtrack features 14 tracks overall,^[14] with all lyrics penned by Irshad Kamil. Mohit Chauhan had lent his voice for nine songs. The audio rights were bought by T-Series.^[15] According to Rahman, Rockstar is "a character driven film and as one can guess from the title, there will be lots of guitar".^[16] Rockstar is a musical journey that sails through classical rock, ballads, Gujarati folk, the Sufi music and even a gypsy note from an unheard Czech tradition.^[17]

Release

Rockstar set to release on 11 November 2011, saw good advance opening at multiplexes closer to colleges and universities or other big educational institutes.^[18]

Controversies

Major parts of the song "Saadda Haq" was shot at the Norbulingka monastery in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. People waving the Free Tibet flag in the backdrop was shown in the song video. This triggered a dispute between Central Board of Film Certification and Imtiaz Ali when the Board ordered Ali to blur the flag and free Tibet slogan before the film hit the theatre, but the director refused to do it. Imtiaz Ali said, "I am not concerned at all. I have been out of India for long and don’t know whats going on, but I don’t see anything controvercial in the intention portrayal in the movie. The purpose of the movie is not to make any social message, its more about personal freedom rather than a geographical issue."^[19] However, Ali had to remove the sequence from the video to get the film's censor done. Later an official from the Board revealed: "The Censor Board chief explained to them that all the cuts were made by the director voluntarily,and he had the option of appealing to a review board which he didn’t do. There were certain discussions between (Imtiaz) Ali and the Board regarding retaining a kiss between two actors (Ranbir and Nargis), but there have been no disagreement regarding deleting the flag from the frames." Deletion of the Tibetan flag from the video caused wide protests in Tibet and in Dharamsala.^[20]

Critical response

The film received mixed reviews upon release.^[21] Raja Sen of Rediff.com gave the film four stars out of five, and wrote,"Rockstar is a simple, unspectacular tale, sometimes even predictable, but director Imtiaz Ali [ Images ] masterfully weaves in details that draw us in."^[22] Aniruddha Guha of DNA too gave the film 4 out of five stars mentioning that Rockstar is as fulfilling as an effective crescendo.^[23] Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave the film three and half stars out of five and said, "Rockstar is flawed but fabulous."^[24] The Times of India verdict-ed that the film is above average stating, "that the film rocks partially, thanks to the star called Ranbir Kapoor."^[25] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and said "On the whole, Rockstar does not live up to the confidence and expectations from the otherwise very skilled and accomplished film-maker Imtiaz Ali."^[26] Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times rated three and half stars, and noted "The canvas is wide like early Sanjay Leela Bhansali's; bird's eye view of the stunning bridge is very Mani Ratnam; witty, earthy dialogues are so Vishal Bhardwaj. Director Imitiaz Ali manages to retain a personal, auteur's touch in a genre vastly commercial, mainstream. This is a rare feat".^[27]
Sumit Bhattacharya of Rediff.com gave the film 2 and a half stars out of five, saying that "Rockstar is what is called a one-time watch", and highlighted that the film is more Devdas than Jim Morrison.^[28] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV too gave the film 2 and a half stars, and said "Rockstar has a Sufi soul.^[29] If only it had been set free and allowed to go the whole hog!" Kaveree Bamzai of India Today gave the film two out of five stars and said. "AR Rahman's music is the soul of the film. What is missing is the spine, leaving just a jelly in place."^[30] A reviewer from Reuters commented that Rahman and Ranbir are the stars of the film while saying Rockstar works on so many levels, but it fails miserably on so many more.^[31] Yahoo! gave the film a star out of five, and said "The film drives home an unscientific hypothesis that people who’ve endured sufferings/ heart break etc will reach their creative best."^[32]