Prachi Desai and Farhan Akhtar in Rock On!!
This year, another movie of Farhan Akhtar will be released on August 29th, but this time, it is different. This time the man is in front of the camera. Yes, Rock On!! brings out the dormant actor and singer inside Farhan Akhtar, who started as a director in 2001. He sang five songs for the movie. Interestingly, these are not any typical Hindi romantic or tragedy songs but hard hitting, high pitched rock songs.
It has been a cherished dream of Farhan Akhtar to act in a movie but he did not get the right role. He had always been open to acting. After Dil Chahta Hai, many people requested him to make a movie like Dil Chahta Hai. Director Abhishek Kapoor who is also making his directorial debut with Rock On!! is a big fan of Farhan Akhtar. He decided to rekindle the magic of buddy flick. At that time Farhan Akhtar was planning for his next movie, Voice From The Sky. Abhishek Kapoor told him the story of a Delhi boy who comes to Mumbai and forms a rock band which fails to continue and then the members of the band reunite ten years later. It was a very simple yet realistic story which attracted Farhan Akhtar.
Those of you who are big Dil Chahta Hai fans will also love Rock On!! Like Dil Chahta Hai, the story of Rock On!! revolves around the urban youth. Everything about the movie is modern and classy. This is also the weakest point of the movie because people living in small towns or rural areas would not be able to appreciate the movie. Dil Chahta Hai also ran into same problem.
Many people do not know that Farhan Akhtar is an avid guitarist. He has been practicing guitar for twelve years and he has done it all on his own. This self-learned music was a big leverage for him in playing the character of Aditya, who is the vocal of a rock band in Rock On!!. Even the music composer of the movie Shankar, who trained Farhan Akhtar for the movie, was very much impressed.
“Farhan with his guitar is quite a sight – he just rocks it. It is unbelievable that he has actually learned playing the guitar on his own, downloading chord charts, fingering techniques from the Internet, strumming and singing along, all on his own.”
Farhan Akhtar also performed live in the music launch ceremony of Rock On!! which took place at the The Infininty Mall on Andheri Road.
Rock On!! is also the debut movie of Prachi Desai. The actress who became popular playing Bani in Zee TV’s popular serial, Kasamh Se. Prachi Desai is now very much interested to make a career in movies. When asked whether she would return to television Prachi Desai said:
“I don’t know when I will go back to TV. If my films don’t do well, I will have to go back. But right now I’m doing films and I hope it takes me somewhere,” said Prachi.
“It is not that I don’t want to go back to my TV image of wearing saris, but it is too early to do all that again. I have other films in hand also. So TV will wait for now,” she added.
While talking about her TV career, Prachi said that she was not happy with what she was doing in television because there was no variation.
For her role, Prachi had to change her appearance. Bani in Kasamh Se was a small town girl who was very simple minded and honest. In Rock On!! Prachi’s character, Sakshi, is a woman of today. Sakshi is a woman who was born and brought up in Mumbai. She is a well educated and sophisticated women and very compromising.Those of you who are used to see Prachi Desai wrapped in colorful sarees in Kasamh Se will see a new Prachi Desai in the movie who wears western style clothes. For her new look, Prachi Desai gave all the credits to her director, Abhishek Kapoor. She said that it was Abhishek who visualized the character and it was all that he had wanted. All Prachi had to do was carry the role. Prachi Desai is also doing another movie, Life Partner, directed by famous director duo, Abbas-Mustan. In this movie, she is going to appear with Fardeen Khan, Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza.
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