Nadaan Parindey.

If love is the sole reprieve from abandoning desires, then pain and agony are the mortal chastity of holding onto them. And music might just become one of the many renderings coming out of such longings.

Rockstar, in all its truth, is that depiction of life that is projected in a million ways in every human, but seldom comes close to a fixed point. A reality that needs to be understood before one gives himself away to all the sham of the world. This movie by Imtiaz Ali, is not a love story between an aspiring singer and a pretty dame, it is a story about desire and the burn to achieve it without comprehending the consequences. Beginning from the simple idea of achieving ones dreams, the film narrates itself through the characters of Jordan and Heer, who despite all social fixations venture into a bonding that gropes them both, in an entangled wave of emotions. From the concept of living life high-wired to dwelling into mysticism, they experiment it all, unless they come to getting back to the real world, that demands compiling to rules and regulations. The life of Jordan is beautifully blended into his thirst for everything. He meanders through all phases of survival to understand music and his inner-self. From the lanes of religious consortium to head-banging concerts, Jordan relives every rockstar's dream, only it isn't his own. With his music, comes convulsion. Passion becomes an outpour of hatred for his helplessness to understand his own life. Heer, on the other hand, despite having the perfect life, renders it useless, because of wanting and not wanting Jordan. If one could summarize this, it ain't love but a desire for it. Imtiaz, with his writing has tried to assimilate the conceptual yearning for success, love and every temporal happiness ending with a simple realization of being with someone in an uncomplicated tedium of peace. 

In addition to emotional variability, the director has beautifully captured the essence of being right or wrong in the light of all the trajectories of life. No statement is diabolic and no feeling is dry, this is what Imtiaz tries to make his audience sense while going through the story of his protagonists. Starting from Rumi's quote- " Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there", Ali shows in every aspect of Jordan, how very unyielding he is to the common notions of correct and incorrect. And how he is unable to understand what his reality demands against what he wants. The movie, in all its conviction gives Indian cinema a bar to make many such movies in terms of context and philosophy. Driving one to remember that not only does love conquer all, but defeats material abiding as well. Rockstar, might not give Imtiaz a commercial run-of-the-mill success, but will definitely give him immense satisfaction as a creative artist. Perhaps, what he might be wanting till now.