Rocky (2008 film)

Rocky
Rocky
	Yash; Bianca Desai ; Santhosh
Cinematography	S. R. Sudhakar
Edited by	S. K. Nagendra Urs
Music by	Venkat - Narayan
Production; company	T N Films
Release date	25 December 2008;
Running time	152 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Rocky is a 2008 Indian Kannada-language

Yash and newcomer Bianca Desai along with Jai Jagadish, Ramesh Bhat

and Santhosh in other pivotal roles.

The film featured original score and soundtrack composed by Venkat-Narayan. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam has sung a duet with Priyadarshini which was his last for the younger generation hero^[2] and also from this movie actor Yash got the name "Rocky Bhai".^[3] Rocky met with negative response with most critics who tried to compare it to films from other languages.

Plot

Rocky (

Yash) is a young college student raised in an unloving home. Usha (Bianca Desai

) comes from a loving home but lost her mother in death. They meet on her first day of college and it is love at first sight for Rocky. Usha agrees to be friends and Rocky hides his feelings for her. One day he is dismayed to find that Usha has an overwhelming fan crush on a classical guitarist named Vishwas (Aryan). Thinking that he is helping Usha, Rocky tries to arrange for them to meet. Vishwas makes this difficult for Rocky because he believes that he is being sent by the enemies of his don brother (Raju) to harass him. Finally Rocky sees them together and is happy with his work until he realizes that Vishwas is starting to believe that he is in love with Usha. The competition between the two increases until Usha herself realizes that she herself is actually in love with one of them.

Cast

Yash

as Rocky

Bianca Desai as Usha
Santhosh Aryan as Vishwas, the concert guitarist
K. L. Thimmappa Raju as Nanda the don
Jai Jagadish as Rocky's father
Ramesh Bhat as Usha's father
Padmaja Rao as Rocky's mother
Karibasavaiah as the college principal
Girija Lokesh
M. N. Lakshmi Devi as Ajji, Usha's grandmother
Mithra as Soda, Rocky's sidekick

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Venkat-Narayan and the audio was sold on Skanda Audio label.

Track listing
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Snehada Chiguru"	Panchajanya	Jayant Kaikini	Narayan

Reception

Critical response

R. G. Vijayasarathy of Rediff.com scored the film at 1 out of 5 stars and wrote "Music director Venkat and Narayan score two strong numbers like Valla Vallare and the title song. Dialogue writer Vijay Chendur has written crisp dialogues. But the senseless story makes the film a failure. Cameraman Sudhakar comes off good with his camera work".^[4] A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote "Yash gets a better film to work on next time. If it is a khichidi of other films Nagendra wants to direct, he better stick to his forte of editing. And please Nagendra, do not play those silly cameo roles".^[5]

References

^ Waseem, Mohammed (16 December 2017). "Monjunath is caught between the devil and the deep sea: Vijay Chendoor". The Times of India.
^ Rocking Star Yash Emotional Words On SP Balasubramanyam | TV5 Kannada, retrieved 1 February 2023
^ "How Did You Decide On The Name Rocky..." #kgf #yash #kgf2 #prashanthneel, retrieved 1 February 2023
^ "Avoid Rocky". Rediff.com. 26 December 2008.
^ "Rocky: Rock and snore". Bangalore Mirror. 26 December 2008.

External links

Rocky at
IMDb

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[1] Waseem, Mohammed (16 December 2017). "Monjunath is caught between the devil and the deep sea: Vijay Chendoor". The Times of India.

[2] Rocking Star Yash Emotional Words On SP Balasubramanyam | TV5 Kannada, retrieved 1 February 2023

[3] "How Did You Decide On The Name Rocky..." #kgf #yash #kgf2 #prashanthneel, retrieved 1 February 2023

[4] "Avoid Rocky". Rediff.com. 26 December 2008.

[5] "Rocky: Rock and snore". Bangalore Mirror. 26 December 2008.

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