It's the story of four friends, the lead guitarist Joe (Mascarenhas), vocalist Adi (Aditya Shroff), Rob (Nancy) with his keyboards & KD aka Killer Drummer (Kedar Zaveri) whose dream was to launch a music album of their group that they called Magik with the motto 'nobody will takeover'! But alas when opportunity came of releasing their album, first the reality bite from the music company's executives and secondly the growing ego clash between Joe & Adi broke their dream and their group in one crushing blow.
10 years went by and we find the four friends diverted to different careers. Aditya, now a married man and a workaholic, never reveals his past and his true inner self to his wife. Rob now works as a composer in the commercials, KD, the jolliest of the four, assists his father in his jewellery business. The dreamer Joe is running a store for musical instruments and his wife Debbie, is running the family business of fish trading to counter the financial crisis of the family.
But a curious turn of fate brought the four frendz face to face and it was up to them to decide whether or not Magik can be rekindled. For this Rob has to fight against his cancerous tumour, Joe & Adi must wipe out their differences, Joe must choose between Magik & his family and KD must keep the spirits high for the group.
Arjun Rampal as Joe is superb and though he has very limited dialogues but his expressions were perfect to convey the emotions of the true dreamer, I think I've never seen him acting with so much passion before. Shahana Goswami, portraying Debbie, also shows a marvelous performace and I can say for sure that we have another of the like of Konkona Sensharma coming up in her. Next to mention is Farhan Akhtar, debutant in acting, though a seasoned director and also a fine singer. His characterization of Adi was just perfect for the role. Luke Kenny (Rob) and Purab Kohli (KD) are also outstanding in their performances, the former depicting what true love to music means and the latter breathing relief to the movie. Last but not the least mention must be made of the performer in the background, the genius of Shankar Ehsan Loy whose 'Magik'al touch is the best gift of this production.
The story is simple and will touch all the deep chords in ur heart and if u've ever lost a dear frend in ur life......................hope he is also watching this movie so that one day when opportunity arrives u can use all the lessons composed by Rock On to repair the broken wires and tune up once again to the music that is being played in ur heart!
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