Thursday, September 18, 2008

Rock on-My thoughts on the movie

Rock On,Nice Movie,But still a movie!!
The movie tries to sell the dreams to all the musicians across the country,But does it actually invoke our inner quest of music?Or it makes us realize the compromise which most of the music persuaders in our country have done or in the path of doing it.
Well I guess most of us of this music or 'Rock' cult in India can very well relate to it.But the thing that we can actually do something in music in India apart from Bollywood,still sounds a dream long awaited.
Then we see a Hindi Rock Band,Well only after Jal,Strings made it big we have started to have Our Hindi Rock Bands,I had one too and was in touch with many.But no one actually made it big even after having loads of talent!
Despite having tons of reality shows like Indian Idol,Sa Re Ga Ma Pa,VOI,they only focus on getting Playback Singers,to dance on tunes of our Hindi Film Industry Music directors,And all of us know how many actually do it!!
Then we talk about the so called "Rock culture" in this country.Everyone in this arena knows about Local Rock Bands like PDV,BM,DR,ZERO,PentaGram,TAAQ,Cryptos,Metakix,BF,FTN,Prestorika,Parikrama,Indian Ocean, and many more.. countless but apart from getting featured in few US Rock magazines and openining for Big bands.. No one has ever made a mark on the main stream in the country.
The only thing that sells here is Bollywood music,Bhangra and of course couple of Pakistani Hindi Rock Bands (No offenses to any genre of Music),But the Local Rock bands' talent, if compared to the above mentioned is way way more.
So,what we see in the movie "Rock On" that their "dream" to go big and actually become a band like Metallica or something in India looks like a fairy tale.
The good thing about the movie however was that actually they have shown the real future of the band members,what they become after the band splits,Till that point its very true and this is what happens to all of us.This might sound like a very negative thought but its true,After a point of time when we meet real life and search for our bread-butter,we have to compromise in some way or the other.
You can still pursue music,work under some music director or in some studio,open your small music school and teach,or play live music in pubs,marriages and parties.
Nothing has changed and the dream of having a culture of ROCK BANDS in India where they are treated like Gods and are way above Bollywood,still looks like a dream only.
We all pray that one day we actually see it happen in India.Pray! thats all we can do here,trust me...Many have tried and are trying... All the best wishes to the Music fraternity and the people who are still trying!

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