I saw the promos of the movie 'Rock on' on TV recently
Somehow it swept me off to those dreamy days post college
I was fresh out of college, not in a hurry to do anything
I knew I was to get though to one of those big wig companies everyone was talking about, yep, that much arrogant I was ;)
So now that my game was set, I spent most of my time idling in my sister's tiny apartment (if you could call that one :P) in Bangalore
The day time was when I slept, ate, pretended to skim through news paper for job ops
But life usually came alive post sunset, roaming about Jayanagar fourth block, munching roast butta, hanging out at planet M, buying nothing but browsing through the catalogs endlessly and listening to radio non stop well past mid night, much to my mother's chagrin!
Bangalore has been quite the place for headbangers...next only to perhaps Kolkata? (but it's all that jazz really)...
Really, Thank god, coz in this place, rock is a little more than Bon Jovi (forget the fact that Bryan Adams keeps returning to haunt the city year after year!)
But I wonder at the same time, how many out there are aware of those rock gems that keep springing up from the north east....Manipur, Nagaland, Shillong...anyone?
Getting back to the point of course, it seems a real long time back, a different time, different life, a different person, almost...
It's as if you think, you have grown out of that kind of life...but then you cant help leaning back and smiling out of the window during that rare moment when an old Creedence track leaks out of your car's stereo.

P.S: BTW, the one thing that did take me back to days of yonder, the movie Rock On, has mediocre music, may be because of that VOICE. Farhan Akhtar....why?! scream man....this isn't deep enough!
P.P.S: I'm gonna catch this movie on wednesday. And that's not only because I've always had a monster crush on Arjun Rampal ;)

If in a mood to touch base with rock....try Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival / Poison by Alice Cooper

Mood: Nostalgic
Song On: Pichle saat dino mein

Labels: Movies, Music

Posted by Sat at 4:32 PM
7 comments

7 Comments:

ada..back to meejic reviewa...y dont u put ur meejic review on a regular basis..paathi names unga posta pathachum makkal terinjikatumay ( btw..enoda inoru name makkal :D )

By  gils, at 10:05 PM, September 01, 2008  

Personally, I did the like the songs...tho as u said he should have SCREAMED better :P

By  Harish, at 2:08 PM, September 03, 2008  

@well there is no point in leaving you a comment.. but its for fellow bloggers about post review (after seeing the movie)

basically i dont know anything (rather very less) about rock music and hindi

i was sitting as a stranger (odd man out) in one corner of the theathre (seat number D1) but after some time... i got so much involved and started almost jumping out on my seat in the last seqeuences....

so if you think .. rock what all crap is that (yes all those crap thalais) you will definitely like it because....


because.....


dont read... i am going to give the spoiler....



because the tag line of the movie is ....




is.....



all about friendship... and very little rock music... :D

po ithuku mela ennala summa irukka mudiyaathu

By  nandoo, at 5:46 PM, September 04, 2008  

So is this movie good? I intend to watch it this week end!

Vidya

By  Vidya, at 6:13 AM, September 11, 2008  

Gils;
Thing is I don't write a lot of them to maintain a separate blog for it...etho mokka poda topic-e kittalena, filler ahem!

Harish;
Yeah...actually I re-worded it. I had told to Nandoo the voice should have been deeper, as if from the gut, and horror of horrors, Nandoo tried it out! And he sounded like a guy with a severe bout of constipation!

By  Anonymous, at 2:28 PM, September 11, 2008  

Nandoo;
ithu periya spoiler...ithukku ivallo build up...nautanki saala :P
but you clapped for Arjun Rampal, you are so broad minded....proud of you!
Muah muah!

Vidya;
It's definitely worth a watch once...You are likely to get a lot of deja vu from older movies, and sometimes Arjun Rampal looks incredibly good, that he takes it for granted that you dont look at his almost motionless hand on the strings during a riff in a song (too bad for a guitar god, but he looks the part!)
BTW, if you're into the soulful stuff, I'd suggest Tahaan. That's a good movie!...And lord Kashmir has never looked this beautiful on screen...

By  Anonymous, at 2:34 PM, September 11, 2008  

ROCK ON!! u forgot the exclamations

By  brute, at 7:27 PM, September 14, 2008  

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