Though there are many copious forms in communication skills, out of all those, storytelling is considered as the most prominent and beautiful one because it has the potential to engage with its audience and give relevance to their realities. Storytelling is basically sharing our stories, history, incidents and most of the times to express our purpose to the people. Everyone has their unique way of telling a story, but there are only a few who can actually master this beautiful art of storytelling, one such gem is Imtiaz Ali who can squiggle with complex human emotions.
Most of Imtiaz Ali films have a few similarities like, there is always a love story, but of a different kind, the protagonists travel a lot, the male leads are clueless and oblivious about life while the female lead brings purpose to their life. The fundamental ingredients of Imitiaz’s recipe are always the same, but still flavours in a unique way and hits a different nerve every single time because of his style of storytelling. One such vehement film of Imtiaz is ROCKSTAR which is an absolute craft.
The story of an amiable young man Janardhan Jakhar(Ranbir Kapoor) a.k.a. JJ who has his heart set on becoming a rockstar presumes that one established life-altering heartbreak is the essence for becoming an artist meets a beautiful young lady, Heer(Nargis Fakhri) and falls in love with her deranged fantasies over junglee-jawani, cheap liquor and wonderful adventures. Before confessing their feelings to each other, Heer gets married to another guy and starts a new life in Prague. Before marriage, she developed feelings for JJ and coined him with the nickname “Jordan” which by and by becomes his stage name.
We see Ranbir Kapoor as an innocent young boy who fantasizes to become another Jim Morrison. In his journey of becoming one, he is left with a broken heart, abandonment from family, possessed by addiction and pain which makes him turn out to become a rebellious, uprising renowned rockstar- Jordan. Rockstar is a huge milestone in RK’s career with his innate acting skills, flawless screen presence and raw and rustic attitude of Jordan, which brought him into the spotlight and bagged the appreciable amount of accolades for his work.
The embellished factor of the film is its music by AR Rahman. The audience became homing pigeons of this album. It always makes us go back to this album in the world of pop, and experience the whole new dimensions to its hallmark music which is so invigorating. The true essence of the songs is its lyrics, which are penned by brilliant Irshad Kami, who stirred extreme emotions with his splendid usage of breathtakingly beautiful words.
We can say Mohit Chauhan is the second lead of the film. The most important framework in the film is Mohit Chauhan’s husky voice to the singer Jordan. Every time Jordan sang, it gave us a new vibe which we never felt before. Perhaps, that is the prominent key of the film.
Apart from the wonderful main leads, it also stars Moufid Aziz, Aditi Rao Hydari, Piyush Mishra, Shernaz Patel and Kumud Mishra in supporting roles who counterbalanced the film with their less-perfect screen presence.
The climax of the film is so poetic which shows that Jordan spiritually reunites with Heer not in a physical way, indicating Heer is no more. The film ends with a beautiful poem by Rumi which is translated as
“Away, beyond all concepts of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there” which gave the film a beautiful and poetic end.
