- Release date: 11 November 2016 (India)
- Director: Shujaat Saudagar
- Box office: 15.7 crores INR (US$2.2 million)
- Music director: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Story
It was upwards of eight years back that the diverse Rock On!! band of young men, drove by an energetic first-time entertainer vocalist Farhan Akhtar and organized capably by executive Abhishek Kapoor, showed up in our middle and struck a moment harmony.
What that film accomplished might not have been momentous. Be that as it may, it despite everything remains shockingly crisp in our psyches.
The world, obviously, has proceeded onward since. Thus, as we gain from the continuation, have the individuals from the once-flourishing musical gang Magik.
Shraddha Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli and Shashank Arora in Rock On 2
Twist
Why, at that point, does Rock On 2 look and sound so a decade ago? The appropriate response is entirely self-evident: in light of the fact that it is a decade ago – both in origination and execution.
Despite the clear difficult work that executive Shujaat Saudagar has placed into repackaging the first tropes, Rock On 2 shows up excessively twisted after adhering to the old approaches to be reliably captivating, not to mention energizing.
To lay it out plainly, Rock On 2 is an ordinary endeavor to restore the enchantment of the 2008 unique. Not exclusively is the music on offer here (by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy) unfit to measure up to the previous score, the film, overall, once in a while hits the privilege enthusiastic notes.
Songs
Rock On!! was set apart by spunk and immediacy. Rock On 2 is brazenly manipulative, continually trying to push the crowd in imagined bearings.
Rock On!! had worked broadly fundamentally in light of its novel facade – it was an uncommon Bollywood melodic that focused on the travails of conspicuous stone artists but had all the fixings that lay Hindi film crowds could identify with at a passionate level with no hand-holding.
Albeit a lot more extensive in degree and aspiration, the spin-off is disappointingly insipid. Neither the old band individuals nor the two new contestants, including the film’s young and decided female hero, loan a lot of weight to the toiled show.
Quite a bit of it focuses on venture investor turned-band frontman-turned-donor Aditya Shroff (Farhan Akhtar), who, after a decent run, is on a huge remorseful fit activated by an appalling accident that he considers himself answerable for.
Performances
Having withdrawn into a shell and betrayed music, Aditya is currently a do-gooder who looks to spread bliss in a calm corner of Northeast India. Be that as it may, there is little euphoria in his own life.
Interestingly, the once ill humored guitarist Joe Mascarenhas (Arjun Rampal), who continually got an inappropriate finish of the stick – or so he thought – in Rock On!!, is unquestionably more motivation to be calm with himself.
He presently claims an occurrence club and is enjoying some real success as an appointed authority a reality music appear. In any case, there is something missing from his reality – authentic enthusiasm.
The band’s “executioner drummer” K.D. (Purab Kohli) gives us a long winded voiceover account concerning why precisely Aditya has sunk into a profound sulk. He at that point continues to put forth attempts to recover the Magik folks together once more. In any case, that is more difficult than one might expect.
Band beginner Shraddha Kapoor plays Jiah Sharma, a young lady who faces serious restriction from her moderate traditional performer father (an as-proficient as-ever Kumud Mishra), as she battles to become showbiz royalty as a stone artist.
Cinematography
While one track of Rock On 2 follows the band looking to rejoin even with Aditya Shroff’s cussed foot-hauling, the different spotlights on Jiah’s fight to make free and follow her extremely upset.
Neither one nor the other strands is stirring enough for the crowd to be completely put resources into the ultimate result.
Endlessly more awful off is the other expansion to the band, played by Shashank Arora (of Titli notoriety). He has little to do in the midst of the noise.
The Rock On 2 story is unpleasantly unsurprising and offers nothing that could persuade the more incredulous among the crowd that the continuation just must be made.
Editing
Chief of photography Mark Koninckx, whose first film in Quite a while (the Tamil spine chiller Maryan, featuring Dhanush) had permitted him to develop a visual language to mirror the rhythms of AR Rahman’s music, puts forth a valiant effort here as well.
He catches Shillong, one of India’s most grounded awesome music centers, and its environmental factors with feeling and sharpness.
On the off chance that lone the radiance of Koninckx’s work was coordinated by the screenplay, the film may have prevailing with regards to burrowing further underneath its surface.
Things being what they are, Rock On 2 isn’t the shaking, romping ride you anticipate that it should be. It is wash however slow, smart yet stodgy.
Unfortunately, the grunge band around which Rock On 2 spins is driven by a crooner (Farhan Akhtar) whose rough voice sounds great just when it is overwhelmed by the encompass sound.
Conclusion
Farhan’s on-screen execution is consistent and for the most part in a state of harmony with the requirements of the screenplay, however without a convincing explanation behind his underlying world-exhaustion, his a-fellow who-needs-a-helluva-parcel of nudging act is not exactly fulfilling.
Shraddha Kapoor, who speaks to the more youthful age right now of periods and societies, improves work with the tunes that she loans her voice to. Her acting, as well, gets by without scaling extraordinary statures.
As a melodic, Rock On 2 doesn’t arrive in a desperate predicament anytime. Be that as it may, generally, the film winds up caught in rough landscape. So its stream is staccato.
A melodic dramatization sans an especially solid score is a like a painter’s clear canvas smeared with dull grays. What’s more, that absolutely is the issue with Rock On 2.
It shakes just sporadically, and it never influences the crowd enough for the last to pine for another making a difference.
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