Rock On....Gain with Pain

Had an exhilarating weekend with Rock On, a long lost batchmate, Mumbai Meri Jan and the vibrations which follow a 20 something...!

In the end, what stuck on was ROCK ON !!

What a movie! So moving, so real.

Now what I do know though is that even though I was impressed in equal measure by the characters of Farhan Akhtar and the guy who goes on to head Channel 'V', I would vouch for the latter, for with lesser pain he get's a life and not to forget, a decent wife!

But what rubs in, after you settle back in office and back to a Farhan Akhtar like routine (well not as bad!!...just one screen..and in my case..I avoid numbers) is that to be either of the two, it takes a lot of pain and patience.

The movie doesn't show how the Channel 'V' head, aformer 'rocker' himself, and a competitor who lost out to Farhan's band with bad blood, went to head V. But one thing which I can say is that he managed to not let go his passion for music completely (V), avoided risk with an executive's life, probably the passion for music (not to mention a new found GF..Farhan's ex) drove him. The lady does have a few good words about him by the
end of the movie.

Farhan too eliminates risk, but takes on a bitterness which elevates him to a solid financial situation but his personal life sucks...and that's what the movie was about.

As for the music industry strugglers, like the film industry, they are a different breed, I have mt them and realized that I didn't have it in me. If you seek security, want a life (especially family life)..that's not the path. So my mind kind of switched off after I saw Arjun Rampal's wife selling fish and Rob having to wag his tail in front of Anu Malik.

Not that you do not wag your tail in the corporate world, but perhaps it's a little more elegant with a little more ROI (Investment = hard work+ass work+emotional).

And as a lady friend pointed out, Farhan's wife is anoyone's dream and hard to find in the real world but my belief is that it depends on where and who is searching. This gal seems an arranged marriage kind (by parents) as Farhan had kind of switched off his personal life after going to Delhi.

Now, in the educated, elite, professional, career-oriented lot we move around in, such gals are not to be found. I know a few but they are pretty desi, homely with different priorities in life.

Now what would such a girl do whole day when her better half is in office?

Well...the only solution which comes to me is a joint family where family and eventually kids give the lady a life outside of his husband. As for satisfying the urge to creativity..is

that she can be indulged in creating and shaping a new life (which is also creativity)

only thing the creativityis a biological and social one. But is that enough?

Perhaps that question can be answered by only someone who has been a mother. So I choose to stay shut on that point.

But somehow I just cant look at the person who brought me up and my brothers and say that she wasted her time or did nothing. To this day, in the worst hour of crisis, we look up to her and we can see the satisfaction of being there for her loved ones.

Now that's a lot of emotion but once again, that's my take on it.

Again..like men..there's gain with pain. Be it professional or personal..men or women.

How satisfied are professional women? I don't know. My stay in US for 2 years couldn't change my views about my mother and what gives her (or her family) happiness.

Now..that's a lot for one blog. So bye for now. Do watch ROCK ON !!