Rock On

So, Rock On huh? Yet another movie for those poor hapless creature who've been trampled upon by that cruel thing called life... I'm talking about men, in case you didn't get that... so, yeah, Rock On caters to all those self-professed victims of marriage and life in general...
I'm guessing you will have guessed i am one of the few people who will not be raving about the movie... not that i've met anyone who's seen it... but that's not the point... a friend asked for my views... and here they are...
I'm not saying it's a horrible movie... what i am saying is that it's no great shakes, it's nothing new... all it is, is a very clever rehashed version of a few other "guy flicks" that have seen the light of day in the recent years... (i was actually going to replace guy with a word that rhymes gloriously with chick, but i'm gonna take the high road this one time...)
Of the movies it reminded me of, Jhankar Beats comes immediately to mind... what with the band, the "competition", the pregnant wife and so on and so forth... the dying friend of course, is absolutely fresh... who woulda thought!!!
Then of course there's Pyar Mein Kabhi Kabhi, Rang De Basanti, and... hmmm... i can't remember... there've been so many movies about men struggling with realizing their dreams, holding on to their identity and passions while the women stand in the background helping them in a way that is only "natural" i'm presuming, that i seem to have lost count...
Now let me see, what if the gender equation in this film were reversed... what if it were a bunch of women in a band or whatever and falala... my guess is, the movie would have bombed... that is, IF someone had had the balls to imagine that women could (GASP!) be individuals in their own right... (don't even try quoting the example of chak de to me, i will scream...)
I mean, come on, why are our struggles limited to home and hearth? why is it, that even in a field that demands IMAGINATION and creativity, women are rarely anything more than shadows of the protagonist - which is, more often than not, a man...
Once in a very very blue moon there comes along the story of a strong woman... take dushman for instance... there's this girl who takes a stand... to avenge her sisters' murder... and WHO helps her? A BLIND MAN!!! for crying out loud people... we know any man, in your opinion, is better/stronger/and all of that so please don't bother pretending to make films that claim to be woman oriented... ekta kapur's serials are supposed to be that too...
just please keep stroking your egos with the rock ons of the world... and someday, women will just stop watching...
the struggling man... the boy he used to be (and longs to be all of his life)... the shackle that is marriage and how victimised the poor fellow is by all the world... GIMME A BREAK!!!
Find the balls to follow your dreams... stop blaming marriage and the world... DON'T GET MARRIED... choose between the need to prove your masculinity and following your dreams... and for the love of gawd STOP CRIBBING about all that you gave up for so and so and such and such...
CURSE YOU farhan akhtar for dil chahta hai and now THIS... CURSE YOU for giving men a storyline the lack of which they can crib about... a curse upon both your houses... and if you have more than two... well, then on all your houses...