{"id":572,"date":"2016-07-14T22:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=572"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:42:38","slug":"rock-on-2-farhan-akhtar-shraddha-kapoor-arjun-rampal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"What Rock On!! 2 Gets Wrong About the Indie Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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n 2008, the week Abhishek Kapoor\u2019s <\/span>Rock On!!<\/span><\/i> had released, I remember witnessing a relatively unusual phenomenon: Musician friends, who fashionably hated anything remotely connected to Bollywood, were actually excited about a Hindi film.<\/span>\n\nA junior from college, a fellow guitarist, gushed about how the makers had gotten crucial details right. Arjun Rampal\u2019s character, the dour-faced guitarist Joe Mascarenhas, was allegedly holding chords that resembled actual guitar chords. Purab Kohli, who played the unnaturally excitable KD aka Killer Drummer, brings up the concept of time signature (the number of beats per bar of music) at one point, which particularly excited my Dream Theater-loving friend. Rumour even had it that, in this movie, electric guitars and synths were attached to actual cables, which were in turn connected to amplifiers \u2013 in stark contrast to the time-honoured Bollywood tradition of <\/span>misrepresenting<\/span><\/a> the electric guitar.<\/span>\n\nBut the hype ruined the film for me somewhat. Yes, there was an admirable effort at detailing that I\u2019d previously never witnessed in an Indian film. I\u2019d liked, for instance, how Kapoor shot the song \u201cPichhle Saat Dinon Mein\u201d, a slightly exaggerated but digestible recreation of a sweaty indoor gig. The soundtrack, although embarrassingly watered-down and generic, helped \u2013 along with that of <\/span>Tashan<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Life In A\u2026 Metro<\/span><\/i> that released the same year \u2013 usher in acceptability for the rock sound in mainstream Bollywood music, a trend that continues to this day. But overall, <\/span>Rock On!!<\/span><\/i> was merely a repackaged and inferior version of its lead actor Farhan Akhtar\u2019s own directorial debut, <\/span>Dil Chahta Hai<\/span><\/i> (2001), where the love for music replaced love itself as a catalyst for the story.<\/span>\n\nBollywood has since grown up, albeit not by as many years. I have never rewatched <\/span>Rock On!!<\/span><\/i> and I highly doubt the movie has aged well. But its long-awaited sequel <\/span>Rock On!! 2<\/span><\/i>, which hit theatres last Friday, made me think more fondly of the first film, of which this version retains all of the bad and very little of the good. This time around, its guiding principle is closer to that espoused by Richard Linklater\u2019s delightful <\/span>School Of Rock<\/span><\/i> (2001): One great rock show can change the world. As a film, though, it\u2019s a melodramatic mess: a wire-mesh of criss-crossing storylines, underdeveloped characters, and laughably fake-sounding Hindi dialogues.<\/span>\n\n

From experience, I can say that even veteran bands start sounding rusty if they go two or three months without a good jam. <\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nAkhtar, now a bona fide rockstar, returns as Aditya Shroff, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Magik. He now sports a thick beard and occasional man-bun and lives in a village near Shillong, Meghalaya. His singing \u2013 something I have had a thing or two to say about in the past \u2013 is still awful, so he has decided to lumbersexual it up and run both a school and a farmers\u2019 cooperative in the state\u2019s idyllic Khasi Hills. However, he still secretly writes songs and plays acoustic guitar when not dealing with nightmares in sequences that were surely outsourced to Vishesh Films.<\/span>\n\nJoe (Rampal) is now, in stark contrast to the first film\u2019s guitar tutor, a singing reality show judge and the owner of a nightclub called 12 Bar Blues. An admittedly cool thing is the presence of indie star Tejas Menon and his band, featuring guitarist Warren Mendonsa, at the club in an opening scene, which lends it some cred. Rampal\u2019s fake-guitar-playing isn\u2019t too bad: his power chord changes and pentatonic solos look believable enough. This is also true for the drumming by KD, now a jingle composer, whose day-job woes are depicted fairly accurately (although, if I remember correctly, he describes a hip-hop track as electro rock). The new entrants are Jiah (Shraddha Kapoor, in a character clearly modelled on music director Sneha Khanwalkar), who plays keyboards, and Uday (Shashank Arora), a sarod player who is hired as the band’s bass player.<\/span>\n\nThis is where things begin to go south. Why is Magik unable to recruit a bass player, you ask? In a flashback sequence, we see that they <\/span>did<\/span><\/i> have a bass player, who happened to be Sheldon D\u2019Silva \u2013 he of the lightning-fast fingers and trademarked hair-flip. Yes, one of the best bass players in the country appears in the song \u201cJaago\u201d, which is set in a flashback sequence, but when the band re-groups years later, he isn\u2019t considered for the position. Well, it\u2019s not like they think it through \u2013 Jiah and Uday, who record \u201cTere Mere Dil\u201d, one basic electro-fusion track together, not only manage to get a gig very easily at Joe\u2019s club but also become part of the new Magik line-up right away, because that\u2019s how easily bands are formed. <\/span>\n\nIn reality, the indie scene is a close-knit network wherein musicians collaborate with each other if they\u2019re friends and\/or are fully convinced of each other\u2019s abilities. It\u2019s highly unlikely that two \u201csenior\u201d musicians would watch a couple of fledglings with little to no stage presence play one song and offer to play away with them without so much as a quick word.<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s contrivances like these that annoy the scenester and occasional musician in me. At present, I manage to play maybe two or three minor gigs a year, but it\u2019s a fascinating world I\u2019ve been part of for upwards of a decade. However, it pains me to see that <\/span>Rock On!! 2<\/span><\/i>, a movie about that very world, doesn\u2019t take the trouble to flesh it out properly. Getting Tejas Menon, Pentagram, and Usha Uthup in your movie to give it indie cred is all well and good, but how about capturing some of that spirit properly? <\/span>\n\nWhere are the endlessly delayed jam sessions, the post-gig spliffs, the gig promoters, and artist managers? Where\u2019s the agony of perfecting the mix and master of your album\/EP until the very end and the (entirely real) struggle to get people to hear the damn thing on SoundCloud or BandCamp <\/span>for free<\/span><\/i>? Where, in heaven\u2019s name, is the agony of playing shit gigs at shit venues where the sound is bad and the crowd utterly unresponsive? In the <\/span>Rock On!!<\/span><\/i> universe, all gigs are attended by enthusiastic hand-pumpers. <\/span>\n\nThe first film at least got a bit of that right. One of the best scenes in it was one where Magik, forced to take up any gig they could to earn money, were reduced to playing songs like \u201cSaanson Ki Zaroorat Hai Jaise\u201d at a garba night. In <\/span>Rock On!! 2<\/span><\/i>, they\u2019re all affluent, and gear is easily available. Still, the screenplay and director Shujaat Saudagar make no attempt to credibly depict the friction between band members who\u2019ve been playing on-and-off for so long, nor does there seem to be any rustiness in their abilities or tightness as a band. From experience, I can say that even veteran bands start sounding rusty if they go two or three months without a good jam. Here, Magik can achieve studio-quality tightness seemingly at will.<\/span>\n\nAnd good lord, there are the songs. We go from \u201cAasman hai neela kyon \/ Paani geela geela kyon \/ Gol kyon hai zameen\u201d to \u201cNeela aakash jo ek samandar hai \/ Usmein kahi koi aisa sitara bhi hai \/ Jisme dusri ek duniya ho basi \/ Jisme ho jaagti zindagi\u201d (nice try fellas; we believe in aliens now). Any musician worth his or her salt can hear the Melodyne on Akhtar\u2019s vocals; Kapoor\u2019s voice, although probably also touched up, comes across as infinitely more tolerable. There\u2019s an awful flashback song called \u201cYou Know What I Mean\u201d that rips off Maroon 5\u2019s \u201cSugar\u201d video. Not only does it have the most cringeworthy rock chorus of 2016 \u2013 from any part of the world, I\u2019d wager \u2013 but we\u2019re also subjected to visuals of Kohli banging a lone snare drum and dancing around while the soundtrack plays a full beat. If one great rock show or song can indeed change the world, this is the one that could give you an instant coronary, I guess.<\/span>\n\nBut nothing prepares you for the final act of the movie. After a massive fire guts all crops and the school Adi had built, the band decides to hold a benefit gig in Meghalaya itself. The corrupt government officials who started the fire decide that the best way to stop this gig is to hire goons and pull a Metallica in Gurgaon, rather than, I don\u2019t know, use departmental influence to deny them permission.<\/span>\n\nThe one-day music festival is being held out in the boondocks: If it\u2019s a benefit gig, you want to make it as accessible as possible to moneyed city folk, not the <\/span>opposite<\/span><\/i>. Uthup plays a Khasi song; the Pentagram boys belt out \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Decided\u201d; and after some minor and totally unnecessary drama, Magik shows up and plays songs they seem to have only just written to rapturous response from the crowd. <\/span>\n\nUltimately, <\/span>Rock On!! 2<\/span><\/i> is a slog largely because, aside from all these issues, it’s also a convoluted, half-baked story that is ultimately meant to fortify Akhtar’s inexplicable rock star status. The story of a band, even a successful one, has tremendous potential for drama in terms of ego clashes, conflicts over musical direction, and douchey rockstar behaviour. Here, ego clashes are resolved with convenient man-bonding, conflicts over musical direction don’t exist, and all of these guys are depressingly well-adjusted. <\/span>\n\nTake your sanitiser elsewhere, Bollywood; leave my indie scene alone.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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