![]() ![]() Noire is meant to make players feel as if they've stepped into a Raymond Chandler novel, or a noir movie. I kind of wanted to sit there and order pancakes and not continue on my quest to find out why this devious Hollywood producer did what he did," he says, laughing. "I ended up in a diner in one of the cases. Goldberg says players get engrossed in scenes so deeply that "sometimes you don't want to leave." "It just feels like, you know, anything from Hitchcock to Scorsese," he tells Morning Edition host Renee Montagne. Video game critic and scholar Harold Goldberg, author of All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, has been playing it and calls it "very filmlike." ![]() For this latest game, Rockstar meticulously re-created Los Angeles of the late 1940s, using old maps and aerial photographs. Noire is from Rockstar Games, the company behind Grand Theft Auto. He is surrounded by a host of suspects: from a sketchy Hollywood movie producer to crooked cops. Players are put into the shoes of Cole Phelps, a returning World War II veteran who solves crimes and works his way up from beat cop to detective. Watch Rockstar and wait for Imtiaz Ali's next from his compendium of love.A new video game offers up another way to experience life in the Los Angeles Police Department circa 1947. Shammi Kapoor's presence as the classical artist enhances the gravitas of the film. But eventually, the film is a milestone in Ranbir Kapoor's career as an actor and a classic cut from the AR Rahman and Mohit Chauhan combo. Nargis Fakhri too stands tall as the delectable Heer who sizzles on screen with her unconventional ways. Ranbir Kapoor displays an amazing growth chart as a performer as he gradually changes from a two-sizes-too-tight jean-clad upstart to a musical genius seared by a love that threatens to scorch his very soul. Of course, Sadda Haq is the youth anthem by now, but there are so many beautiful tracks in the film, you get heady and stirred. ![]() The vocals by Mohit Chauhan, the lyrics by Irshad Kamil and the music by AR Rahman are stuff classics are made of. The fact that this romance unfolds on screen in the form of an explosive musical, capturing JJ's transmutation into Jordan, the edgy artist, makes the film an absolutely engaging affair. It is a love that transcends all social barriers, decimates all conventions and ends with a spiritual promise to meet in the field that exists beyond the concept of right and wrong (Rumi). ![]() Great bonding, which gets even greater when the two realise it's time to kiss. Before she gets nice and clean, Heer wants to play real dirty and JJ is more than willing to play the rule-breaker rogue with her. Their relationship begins when both of them display a yen for the wicked and wild side of life and ignite the bohemian lifestyle by watching a show of Junglee Jawani in a seedy Delhi theatre. The highpoint of Rockstar is it's high tension, high-on-passion romance between two unlikely people: the completely low brow JJ who doesn't like his girls nice and clean and Heer (Nargis Fakhri), the uptown Stephenian who is all set to get married and settle down to sweet domesticity like all sweet girls do. Love literally smoulders under his narrative, albeit in a completely modern idiom. With intelligent entertainers like Jab We Met, Love Aaj Kal and now Rockstar, he is evolving as a new age Yash Chopra. Romance, under his creative vision, becomes a multi-layered, sensitively nuanced, monumental experience which has more to do with serenading your soulmate rather than a stereotypical marriage partner. Movie Review: Leave it to Imtiaz Ali to take a love story and present it in a manner that's completely different from run-of-the-mill Bollywood. The tumultuous voyage of the bohemian Haryanvi, Janardhan Jakhar to Jordan, the anguished artist. But before he can evolve on his creative journey and metamorphose into Jordan, the rockstar, he must experience life-altering love, heartbreak, self-discovery. Story: Janardhan Jakhar (Ranbir Kapoor), a downtown boy in Delhi, gets into Delhi University, whiles away his time gobbling samosas in The Hindu College canteen.Īnd nurtures dreams of becoming another Jim Morrison. ![]()
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