Rockstar Malayalam Movie

Feature Film | 2015
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'Rock Star' is a film that gets none of its notes right, and plays on like a blaring number that makes you reach for your ear plugs. But I still wouldn't lose faith in its director, and would rather wait for him to surprise us yet again, with perhaps a sturdier script the next time around.
Dec 12, 2015 By Veeyen


For someone like me who has always felt that V K Prakash is a director, who could work wonders with a competent script, his latest film 'Rock Star' is more of a question. As of yet, I'm totally at a loss to understand what made the director take up a script as the one at hand and attempt to make a movie out of it, since it's as palpable as ever right from the start that this one is gonna a disastrous proposition by any yard stick!


Prakash attempts to take a look at Anand Abraham (Sidharth Menon), the rock star and his highly flamboyant life that smells of success and is thronged by keyed up fans. Wary of commitment and all that comes along with it, Anand is having a ball until he gets to meet fashion stylist Athira Menon (Eva Pavithran) who starts giving him lessons - in life.


'Rock Star' is a picture of contradictions in that one the one hand it acts as if it is on a promotion tour of liberalism, and on the other hand adopts a surprisingly medieval stand when it comes to issues as sexuality. This uncertainty exits throughout the film, and in the long run there is very little in the film that comes across as convincing.


If you are on the lookout for some real squalid jokes, there are plenty of them out there, and the writing is a major bummer here, with hardly anything leaving an impression on the viewer minds. Some of those sex jokes even sound way out of place, and are unlikely to draw an applause even from those who are determined to be real pleased about them.


And there is the story itself that takes you by no surprise, and which at the end of it all, leaves you twiddling your thumbs in despair. A crowd soon teams upon screen with several new characters making an appearance, but they hardly make a difference to the plot, except add up to the dissonance that is already on.


What on earth was music director M Jayachandran thinking about when he took up that role is something that we would never know. Well, on second thoughts, there are quite a lot of irrational and implausible things happening around 'Rock Star' that this minor glitch that the music director seems to have suffered from, seems like something totally trivial.


I wouldn't say there is anything wrong as such with the actors, since Sidharth Menon and Eva Pavithran do the best that they can, and Sidharth displays none of the amateurishness that you would expect of a singer who is making his acting debut. But why do I get the feeling that he's definitely more of a singer than an actor?


Surprisingly, there is no technical finesse on display in 'Rock Star' either, which is unlike any other V K Prakash film that one has seen till date. And for a film that is all about a singer, 'Rock Star' has quite a disappointing musical score as well.


'Rock Star' is a film that gets none of its notes right, and plays on like a blaring number that makes you reach for your ear plugs. But I still wouldn't lose faith in its director, and would rather wait for him to surprise us yet again, with perhaps a sturdier script the next time around.


Veeyen

   

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