Rock n' Roll (2007 film)

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Rock N' Roll
Rocknrollfilm.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ranjith
Written byRanjith
Produced byP. N. Venugopal
Starring Mohanlal
Lakshmi Rai
Siddique
Lal
Mukesh
Manoj K.Jayan
Rahman
Harisree Ashokan
Jagathy Sreekumar
Anoop Menon
CinematographyManoj Pillai
Edited by Ranjan Abraham
Music by Vidyasagar
Bijibal
Distributed byMarikkar Films
Release date
  • 9 November 2007 (2007-11-09)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Rock N' Roll is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language musical comedy film written and directed by Ranjith. The film stars Mohanlal, Lakshmi Rai, Siddique, Lal, Mukesh, Manoj K.Jayan, Rahman,Anoop Menon, Harisree Ashokan and Jagathy Sreekumar. The film tells the story of seven musicians in Chennai, the major centre of film production in South India. It was released on 9 November coinciding with Deepavali. [1] [2] It received negative reviews and was considered a commercial disaster at the time of release. Over the years, the movie along with Mohanlal's performance has attained a cult status. Suraj Venjaramoodu's cameo role as a fraud musician was widely acclaimed and is often considered one of his early breakthroughs. [3]

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Plot

The film tells the story of Chandramouli (Mohanlal), a composer and drummer, of his return to Chennai from South Africa for a brief visit and of the incidents happening in that short span. Gunasekharan (Siddique), a leading music composer, is busy with his composition for the latest film directed by Lal Jose. He feels that it would be better if he gets the help of his old friend, Chandramouli, who is now busy with his international concerts. But Mouli, a fun-loving and jovial musician, makes a surprise landing in Chennai and helps Guna in his work. Mouli falls in love with Daya Sreenivasan (Lakshmi Rai), a female playback singer, who is also an ardent fan of him. But because of the compulsion from her parents and fiancé, Vivek (Anoop Menon), she moves back to Mumbai. Mouli plots a plan with his friend, Thabala Balu, (Harisree Ashokan) to bring her back to Chennai. He convinces Daya that he is composing a dozen songs for a film and wants Daya to sing them. Daya comes back to Chennai but is not impressed by Mouli's tunes. When she openly expresses her unhappiness over the tune, Mouli takes it as a prestige issue and composes a song entirely dedicated to her. However, Daya is unable to reach the studio on that particular day because of her engagement ceremony with Vivek whom she feels is too arrogant and sophisticated for her. Knowing this, Mouli enters the engagement venue and takes Daya to the studio for half an hour despite the opposition from her family members. Daya, who is in love with Mouli, realizes his love for her and opens her mind to him. The film ends with Mouli relaxing at a beach with Daya but his old habits of carefree nature and passion for girls are still not gone.

Cast

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. On the other hand, the music was well received. Vidyasagar's music was popular, especially the song "Chandamama", which stayed on the charts for many weeks. The failure of the movie also resulted in a small spat between Mohanlal and Ranjith which continued till the duo came together for the hugely successful Spirit in 2012. [4]

Soundtrack

Rock 'N' Roll
Soundtrack album by
Released3 November 2007
Recorded Varsha Vallaki Studios
Genre Feature Film Soundtrack
Length21:25
Language Malayalam
Label Manorama Music
Producer Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Goal
(2007)
Rock 'N' Roll
(2007)
Pirivom Santhippom
(2008)

The film's background score is composed by Bijibal, [5] while the songs are composed by Vidyasagar with lyrics written by Gireesh Puthenchery. The songs were very popular.

Song TitleSingers
"Chandamama" Anitha Shaiq, Rija, M. G. Sreekumar
"Dhiruthana" Ranjith, Tippu
"Manchadi Mazha" Madhu Balakrishnan, Sujatha
"Ravereyayi" Madhu Balakrishnan
"Valayonnitha" Vijay Yesudas, Ranjith, Jeemon KJ, Pradeep Palluruthy

Quotes

"Rock & Roll is an out and out musical entertainer set in Chennai milieu with the background of a recording studio and the world of musicians. It's a fun-filled movie with Mohanlal leading the pack of merry men." – director Ranjith [6]

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