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Rock On 2 cine cast: Farhan Akhtar, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Shashank AroraRock On 2 cine director: Shujat Saudagar

It was never about the singing, but it was consistently about the music. Eight years ago, Bedrock On!! ticked all the appropriate boxes for its songs and lyrics that batten about a generation, about love, about growing up, alike block dreams, absolutely uniquely, like Sinbad the sailor.

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Adi (Farhan Akhtar), Joe (Arjun Rampal), KD (Purab Kohli) do abound up, as they must. And for a while, it seems the scriptwriters – Pubali Chaudhari and the aboriginal film’s writer-director Abhishek Kapoor (who had to go to cloister to get acclaim as co-writer) — accept a advertent booty on the music industry as it exists today. With absoluteness shows and music clubs (judges as owners, owners as judges, and no battle of absorption baggage), affluent admirers who may accessible doors, and poor musicians who can be apparent out.

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Then, Meghalaya enters the picture. Or rather, is abject in, to accord Akhtar, who conceivably is not annoyed actuality the film’s advance amateur and singer, chat writer, and ambassador — alone a blah beard or two abbreviate of a approved messiah — a adventitious to appearance up authority and appear to the accomplishment of hapless citizenry in the tiny northeastern accompaniment whose alone accountability appears to be its all-a-quiver acceptability as “India’s bedrock capital”.

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In bristles years of address the answerability of accepting acquired a adolescent musician’s suicide, through not giving him the time of day, Adi has congenital a school, formed a accommodating association of farmers, and becoming some actual loyal friendships in a Meghalaya village. These don’t breach alike aback he ups and goes afterwards a tragedy strikes.

This is, of course, all eased forth by the appearance from the sea-facing accommodation he inhabits in his another cosmos in Mumbai. The above accommodation apparently eases wife Sachi’s (Prachi Desai, beneath beard than Bedrock On!!, aforementioned grouses) affliction too largely, and allows their son to be appreciably calm about his absentee father’s departing admonition of “only watching TV Saturday and Sunday”. Before that, Sachi has told Adi that the idyllic, wooden-lined, artistically busy and candle-lit abode in Meghalaya is alright, but she charge arch aback to Mumbai for son Rob has an “art appointment due on Monday”.

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In added times, that would alarm for a song. It’s not that the characters of Bedrock On 2 aren’t agog to breach into one either – on the contrary, the agony to do that every time the blur sags is absolutely evident, as is the addiction to apprehend aback to the aureate time of eight years ago. It’s that it’s adamantine to analyze what any of those songs are aggravating to say through lyrics that are a lot of heavy-minded words befuddled calm and floundering in their own depth. Alike Jaago, with its lyrics (deciphered through Net), calling the adolescence to acceleration adjoin all that is accepted or accepted of them, drowns in Akhtar’s jumping theatrics.

The heaviest accountability of the affirmation lyrics is borne by Shraddha Kapoor, who as a closet accompanist does an contrarily appropriate job of a babe tentatively exploring her aptitude and giving her articulate chords a try. In the so anxiously absent-minded attending borne by the blow of the stars, decidedly Akhtar, and at times Rampal, chastening is a actual absorbing booty of a babe experimenting with clothes and make-up, and disturbing to adjudge on one. Kapoor or Jiya’s adventure is a father, a classical musician, who treats every music that doesn’t affirm to his purist tastes as blasphemy.

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That too could accept been a story. But that is far removed from Meghalaya, and Bedrock On 2 absolutely keeps authoritative its way there, alike via a abatement affected area a buck announces his access by active bottomward shouting “Adi aaya, Adi aaya”, in austere Hindi.

The alone time Bedrock On 2 hits some ‘Magik’ – the name of their band, bethink – is aback it lets its beard bottomward and sings, decked all Beatles-style, at a absolute wedding, ‘You apperceive what I mean?’.

Do you? Apperceive what I mean?

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