Masand: 'Rockstar' deserves a watch by ibnlive.in.com
Ranbir Kapoor is Janardan Jakhar, a middle-class kid from Delhi's Pitampura, who sets himself up to get his heart broken when he's told he can't be a great musician until he's suffered great pain. Janardhan goes from a desperate struggler strumming his guitar at campus hangout spots, to an angsty star, now rechristened Jordan, who's prone to violent outbursts. Indeed it's love and pain itself that inspires this journey. His heart beats for the unattainable Heer (Nargis Fakhri), the gorgeous Kashmiri girl he befriended while in college, who is now married in Prague.
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Rating: 3/ 5
Mayank Shekhar's review: Rockstar by hindustantimes.com
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakri
Rating:***1/2
“Look at the great artistes, you’ll realise there’s one thing that’s common to all of them: pain.” Frustration, hurt, angst, struggles of all sorts may have produced deranged humans; they’ve also brought to the world, genius in expression, art of all kinds. It’s a fair point; the one making it in this movie is someone called Khataraji. Intellect is best earned from the street. Khataraji is a college canteen manager, pot-bellied, mustachioed, wearing a thick hand-knitted sweater and talcum powder over his sweaty neck: basically, he looks like your average, lower middle-class, middle-aged Delhi male.
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A little magic, a little disappointment by mid-day.com
U/A; Romance
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri
Rating:** 1/2 (Out of five)
I have liked all of Imtiaz Ali's earlier films. Apart from the emotional connect that I felt with his characters, one of the selfish reasons for appreciating his movies is that he is a rare filmmaker who treats women in his films like the way they deserved to be treated, for being the powerful, endearing persons they were. Alas, Rockstar failed for me on both the counts.
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Rockstar Rating by indianexpress.com
Rockstar rating:**
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Kumud Mishra
Indian Express rating:**
Here it is, the new film of the new Bollywood boy wonder. And true to type, the actor is better than the film. ‘Rockstar’ disappoints; Ranbir doesn’t.
Brash Jat fellow Janardan (Kapoor), who’s dubbed Jordan by his flirty-but-not-quite girl-friend Heer (Fakhri), wants to be like his idol, Jim Morrison. To which end, he is to be found sitting in various Delhi University campus spots, strumming a guitar. Humming ballads, and stalking girls with an exaggerated drop of the jaw, is not exactly a rockstar’s thing. But let’s not get picky, okay? A 'rockstar' is what you call a person who is aces in his field, okay?
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A Rockstar worth rooting by rediff.com
When The Doors had their first ever professional photographs taken, to go with their incendiary 1967 debut, frontman James Douglas Morrison consciously chose to leave the smiling out of it. The others occasionally smirked affably enough but Morrison, yearning to showcase his searing intensity as a poet ("a word man, better than a bird man") stared solemnly into the lens, and thus at all us onlookers, his piercing gaze shoving us toward attention.
Janardan Jakhar, a Delhi[ Images] collegian enshrining Jim on his wall, stares back at the posters, his reverence surpassed by bewilderment. How to get it, he wonders, when told he doesn't have what it takes to rock. He works at it, occasionally misguidedly, finds his own trajectory,
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