Strings duo discontent with portrayal of a Rockstar

Strings duo discontent with portrayal of a Rockstar

While the euphoria surrounding Rockstar has certainly revamped  the Bollywood Industry of trying a whole new theme, it certainly did little to impress the highly acclaimed Pakistani rock duo of Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood.

The duo who is more famously known as members of the famous band, Strings, feels that the portrayal of Ranbir Kapoor as a Rockstar was vague when compared with a real life musician. Although the pair are a big admirers of AR Rahman music, they felt that
the composition could have been a little tighter and favoring the Sufiana get up should have been a cultural depiction rather than simply another way of embedding a needless feel of conjuring new trend.

While talking to Mumbai Mirror Faisal said, “Let me first make it clear that we’re great fans of Imtiaz Ali, Ranbir Kapoor and A R Rahman Saab. But we live in the space that the film describes. Ranbir had a very Sufiana-rock get-up. When Bilal and I go on
stage, we wear normal jeans and t-shirts, we don’t dress up like that.

And we feel the look and get-up given to Ranbir was not supported by an internal passion. If you have Jim Morrison as a reference point (as the film does), you’ll see that his physical appearance is supported by a cultural and individual past. They have
the inner angst to support their ‘rockstar’ look.”

“We were not gripped by the film. Ranbir’s get-up was overpowering. But his theories on life and their expression in his music did not support the overpowering music. A lot of detailing went into Ranbir’s look, but not in his poetry and personality. Lambe
baal aur daadhi ke peeche ek bahut badi philosophy hoti hai. That was missing in Rockstar,” added Faisal.

Finally, Faisal also mentioned the music frailties associated with the failure of a true depiction of rockstar, We were listening as musicians. And the intensity that we saw in Ranbir’s get-up and his body-language was not manifested in the music. We found
the passion missing in the music. As for Mohit, we really enjoy his music and vocals. In Rockstar though, his vocals did not convey the passion we saw in Ranbir’s look,” added Faisal.

Despite criticism, the film has fared well both in international and domestic markets.

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