This is one movie I was been looking forward to for some time now.....
The opening scenes, shot at the ancient Arena at Verona in Italy gave me a sense of deja vu ( having spent a week there last year!) and as the story moves on languidly, one sees small sub-plots honestly filmed and mildly interesting...this however drags on and on and at times, one wonders if the director ended up shooting a collection for several sub-plots of may be 6 hour duration and then set about editing them to make some sense out of the whole effort.... the new girl is too old to pass off for a college girl as shown in the early scenes though the Stephenian crowd smirking at the Dehati Romeo and wondering he was from the Hindu College is right from the age-old rivalry !
The plot, a slick girl falling for a dehati, willing to compromise her marriage, leading us to an elopement scene and then chickening out etc etc...there ae far too many inconsistencies in the plot.... rock music in Hindi ,to my mind ,just doesn't work... Rock On tried with some small success and in this film too, the music largely bombs except for the Sufi number .... so with that weakness inherent in the plot, the rockstar side takes a beating and it turns into an obsessive love of a jakhad with an anglicised Indian memsahib...
Ranbir infuses earnestness in a role laced with inconsistent characterisation and Sanjay Leela Bhansali-like logic ..... some of the locales are eye-catching and I wish one could say the same about Nargis Fakhri...... so,will I see it one more time or go and finally see Ra.One ? Well RockStar, I'd rather....
RSK
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