Rock On

Ok am watching Rock On at the moment. Thoughts..
first 5 minuts were painful...Farhan akhtar's voice well...it took getting some used to. And the dialogues!!
But what remains with me after nearly 45 minutes of the movie is the direction...it is surprisingly good. Cut to the scene where Farhan's character Aditya looks at Luke Kenny for a long time after a poignant dialogue...what that one look said, the bitterness, the why-rake-the-past ness, guilt...very very good. I also liked the non-linear narrative style, flashbacks merging well and coming at the right moments.
Arjun Rampal pulls off the retiring guitarist, nagged by his fiesty wife, haunted by his past, the what-could-have-beens decently well...the fact that he has those cheekbones does help ;) !
... Hmmm, Farhan doesnt have a varied repertoire of facial expressions, but i think his earnestness as the young aditya was quite endearing. The dandiya scene was killer!
His character chose to walk away from a life, accepted another with all the grace of a wolf turning vegetarian, but as an audience I got what he felt...the conflict, that's what made the movie!
Aditya's conflict with who he is, Joe's demons..all of that.
I loved Luke Kenny! such controlled acting, the peacebroker of an explosive band, a guy at peace with himself... dude I never knew he was that good! possibly my favourite character in the whole movie..
that desai woman, aditya's wife...God! why is she so screechy...does she not get that man doesnt want to talk...no! keeps coming back again and again...gets snubbed...bt she is the wife...all that training in the K-serials has to be of some use right!?