Good music, bad movie

Rating: 5/10 (22 February 2018)

It started off alright. People: fans, goons and police chasing after him all over town. Then he comes on stage, Jordan or Janardhan orJJ played by Ranbir as a rockstar. We have a flashback. He gets this idea that love, heartbreak, pain and misery is what he needs to become a Rockstar not only talent. At first it felt like a joke, satirizing the music industry but its not as he pursues a girl from the hot chick list, Heer played by Nargis. Like a typical Bollywood movie he is very persistent but his motives were not typical so at least right? He eventually confesses that he does not like her but not because she is not beautiful so they become friends.
They have this bucket list thing going on. They go to a theater playing a blue film. You know the weird soft-core porn type, "Jungly something" I cannot remember the second word in the title and I guess not really worth remembering. She wore a hoody pretending to be a guy. They leave early and the joke they make there is very cringy in a bad way. Heer says that they should have stayed longer. JJ says "if they found out that you were a girl they would have raped you". Her reply was then it would have been "Jungly something 2". Seriously who wrote this shit. There is nothing wrong in watching porn or glorifying it like a joke about JJ's conservatism or his surprise reaction and that was funny but they went too far with this joke. It was glorifying rape as well. Like seriously. The bachelor party he was looking away like an immature baby. Guys are not like that yet somehow in indian movies the hero is the innocent guy and the heroine has to tell him its okay.
Heer gets married and they still manage to hang around like old buddies. Her husband really let her hang around JJ. Okay he did because he trusted her. She exploited his trust and commits adultery. Way to go movie, back to the old days, married women should not be left alone with another man or it will always end badly is what you are saying not me. It is implied that they made love but atleast the lip-lock scene was a real one not the fake silly stuff like in the older moves. Okay fine he would leave and they shall never talk of this again as she requests him to do the right thing because she was done. He breaks into her house alarms buzzing everywhere. So they arrest him while she faints as she was having some health problems. It is not explained clearly really. All I gather is it has something to do with her bone marrow and low blood count. He returns to India and gets jailed for breaking and entering and assault for an undetermined period. This gave him more publicity. He got his chance and uses his pain to make good music. He is so rude to everyone all the time and does not appreciate the opportunity. Rockstars actually appreciate it in my opinion. He comes into Heer's life again as her condition gets worse because Heer's sister insists that he visit her in the hospital. She dies. It makes his music even better but he wants to quit now. The end.
Frustrating second half, average first half good chemistry between the leads, good music but bad plot.