Rockstar

Rockstar (2011) is an Indian musical drama directed by Imtiaz Ali that you can watch online on iFILM — starring Ranbir Kapoor and Nargis Fakhri. At nearly three hours, it's a film about what it costs to become the artist you always claimed you wanted to be.

Janardhan Jakhar is a clumsy Delhi student with rock-star ambitions and no edge whatsoever. A wiser friend gives him a piece of advice: real music needs pain, and pain needs loss. Janardhan sets out to get close to Heer — poised, unreachable, from a world that has nothing to do with his — and what starts as calculation slowly becomes something he can't name or control. When she's gone, the music arrives. A.R. Rahman's score for the film turned into one of the defining Bollywood soundtracks of that year, the kind people still play start to finish.

Imtiaz Ali is less interested in the rise-to-fame arc than in the psychological wreckage that precedes it. Kapoor gives the performance the material demands — raw, not polished. For viewers who can sit with a story that refuses easy resolution, this one earns the runtime. Stream Rockstar (2011) online on iFILM.