Urge to Fly http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/film/ Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:45:21 +0530 blogSpirit.com All Rights Reserved http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/08/31/rock-on-review.html http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/08/31/rock-on-review.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Khwaahish-e-Parwaaz) Film Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:30:00 +0530 <div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/media/01/01/f71c479792570a559816c65448b37bb9.jpg" id="media-241284" title="" alt="f71c479792570a559816c65448b37bb9.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br /> I get a little uncomfortable and self-conscious every time I watch a film where there is a character who shares my name (that's been happening a lot in the last couple of years). Sometimes it is easy, especially when you have nothing in common with the character on screen (for example, the three films where Akshay Kumar was called Aditya). In those cases it does feel odd to have people on screen call out your name, but that's not a problem. But if you see even one trait similar to you in the character with the same name as you, it's a terribly uncomfortable feeling. It almost feels like standing naked in full public gaze. This happened to me when I saw <em>Rock On!!</em><br /> <br /> Not that I have a lots in common with Aditya (Farhan Akhtar), the lead singer of a rock band Magik in <em>Rock On</em>. But the fact that he cuts himself off from his friends, almost erasing them from his life as if they didn't exist, and is visibly uncomfortable when meeting them after 10 years, was something uncannily close to me. Although there's no 'past' or 'guilt' that prevents me from doing so, as it is in the case of the character in <em>Rock On</em>, I have hardly been in touch with any of my friends from college, avoiding re-unions or get-togethers for no particular reason. I just feel terribly uncomfortable. Why? If only I knew.<br /> <br /> <em>Rock On</em> also opened the flood gates of memory for&#8230;