Rock On - To Each His Own
1st September 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: Who hasn?t had a row with a friend? Time to make that call and hug the friend you didn?t patch-up with ages ago. That?s the warmth you feel while watching Rock On!!. In the end, you connect and that?s what counts!
Rating: Watch for sure - preferably in theatre
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Here is what 31 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 4.6 / 5.0: 26 thumbs up, 5 so-so, 0 thumbs down.
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| Nita, A Wide Angle View of India …Arjun Rampal as Joe looks perfect for his role and acted well too…. See full review |
N K Deoshi, Apun Ka Choice …The sense of emptiness is intelligently highlighted by the contrasting flashbacks of their juvenile past… See full review |
| Baradwaj Rangan, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express …you begin to wonder if Akhtar (who produced the film) is some sort of compulsive compensator ? for every step forward he takes our cinema, he just has to take one backwards…. See full review |
Prathna Tiwari, Bolly Spice …This piece of cinema contains beauty in many forms and one is that despite having an unconventional script, it doesn’t require extra intelligence for understanding… See full review |
| Daliya Daspurkayastha, Business of Cinema …lthough the film drags too longer at times, it does not get into your nerves. … See full review |
Chandrima Pal, Buzz18 …Rock On will go down in Bollywood history as the closest we have ever come to capturing the essence of rock music, and the artistic soul on screen… See full review |
| Payal, DearCinema …Arjun Rampal has once again dazzled with his good looks…. See full review |
Deccan Herald …Despite the obvious ending and things slowing down in the second half, the movie still holds one?s interest. … See full review |
| Aniruddha Guha, DNA …Rock On actually goes one up on its predecessor in looking at a more important facet of life, and for that story writer and director Abhishek Kapoor deserves credit…. See full review |
Samrat Sharma, fullhyd.com …The plot in itself is very fat-free, and has nothing to offer the actors…This doesn’t mean the boys aren’t up to it, though. … See full review |
| Martin D’Souza, Glamsham.com …The styling of clothes by Niharika Khan and of the sets are given a minute detailing…. See full review |
Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …And innagadda-da-vida can you call the Ehsaan-Shankar-Loy music ?rock??… See full review |
| Rajeev Masand, IBN Live …writers stick to the safety of tried-and-tested formula instead of pushing the envelope…. See full review |
Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …Everything is in sync here, everything is just perfect. Flaws? Perhaps, the slow pacing. … See full review |
| Savio Zacharia, Indiaglitz …The narrative transitions, the friendship, the emotions, the alleys, the instruments?. You are jut drawn into all of it…. See full review |
Gaurav Malani, indiatimes …For once you don?t feel that songs are forced in a Bollywood film. … See full review |
| Harshita Kohli, indya.com …Purab Kohli is another brilliant actor and his act is absolutely adorable… See full review |
Amit R Agarwal, merinews …Cinematography; amazingly stylish and enhances the mood of the movie… See full review |
| Niharika Ghorpade, merinews …The music sets the film ablaze…. See full review |
Movie Talkies …He establishes his characters very well, with the minimum of fuss…. See full review |
| Jahan Bakshi, Now Running.com …The fun, madness and humour are almost completely missing, and that’s where Rock On fails to do a Dil Chahta Hai. … See full review |
Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com …For a film where wounded hearts bleed profusely, there’s very little melodrama in the treatment…. See full review |
| Dazed&Confused, Passion for Cinema …Unfortunately, it is falls way short of being a great or even a very good one… See full review |
Pratim D. Gupta, Passion for Cinema …All I can tell you is that Rock On!! is not about friendship ? it?s there of course ? but it?s about four individuals finding themselves…. See full review |
| Shayoni Mehta, Passion for Cinema …Listen to rock music, the beauty of it lies in simple poetry being emphasized by powerful music…. See full review |
Goher Iqbal Punn, Radio Sargam …Farhan Akhtar performs brilliantly as an actor but as a singer, he still needs to grip over the art… See full review |
| Sumit Bhattacharya, Rediff …Real audiences don’t react to songs they have not heard before the way they do in the movie. … See full review |
Sayesha, Sayesha on the rocks …Sahana Goswami, who played Arjun Rampal’s wife, was totally awesome…. See full review |
| Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies …the film is super fun until the interval?after which it dives into familiar territory that you feared it would… See full review |
Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India …Farhan Akhtar’s vocals are absolutely fundoo, even as the foursome pitch in perfectly orchestrated performances… See full review |
| Filmbear, Upper Stall …This is how concerts should be shot… See full review |
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