The Mixed Reaction Of Rockstar

All things considered, writer-director Imtiaz Ali is most thrilled by the fact that Rockstar has evoked wildly different reactions, “a mix of thousand different things.”

Every person who Imtiaz has met so far has come up with his/her own unique interpretation of his ambitious musical.

Imtiaz himself, however, is of the view that he is never fully satisfied with any film. “I usually feel that there’s always something that I could have done better, that I could have done things differently,” he says. As Rockstar continues to be the talk of the town, Imtiaz speaks to Shaikh Ayaz from Delhi:

What are some of the best or worst reactions you have heard about Rockstar?

It’s heart-warming that the film has reached out to such a wide audience. What I am thrilled by is that people have had a very individual reaction.

Two people who might have gone to watch the movie together have somehow come back with a different opinion about it; in some cases even diametrically opposite reactions.

Someone said to me that it seems like a dream he has had and that it keeps coming back to him. It’s these kinds of unique reactions that I look forward to than the standard response that the film is good or bad. So far with Rockstar it has not settled down to one thing — that this is the broad picture, that this is what Rockstar is about. Source