{"id":4588,"date":"2008-08-30T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2008-08-30T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:12:01","slug":"the-invisible-bass-guitarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-invisible-bass-guitarist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Bass Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_On!!_(2008_film)\" title=\"Rock On -- Wikipedia\"><i>Rock On<\/i><\/a>&#8212;the film was so much fun that I can forgive the typical Bollywood sins of tying up all loose ends and injecting unnecessary sentiness. But I have a question: <\/p>\n<p>Where the hell was the bass guitarist? <\/p>\n<p>I sure as hell heard the dude, but I couldn&#8217;t actually see anyone playing bass. I know no one will notice, but it wouldn&#8217;t have harmed the film if Luke Kenny played bass instead of keyboards. <\/p>\n<p>Additional thoughts: Farhan doesn&#8217;t cut it as a singer; the cast did a superb job, and I particularly liked Shahana Goswami, Arjun Rampal and Purab Kohli; the lyrics of &#8220;Pichhle Saat Dinon Mein&#8221; are ludicrously bad&#8212;I predict that everyone involved with that song will cringe when they hear it ten years later. <\/p>\n<p>If you feel like watching a Hindi film this week, I strongly recommend <i>Rock On<\/i>. In any case, what options do you have? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/movies\/2008\/aug\/29chamku.htm\" title=\"Rediff's review of Chamku\"><i>Chamku<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_On!!_(2008_film)\" title=\"Rock On -- Wikipedia\"><i>Rock On<\/i><\/a>&#8212;the film was so much fun that I can forgive the typical Bollywood sins of tying up all loose ends and injecting unnecessary sentiness. But I have a question: <\/p>\n<p>Where the hell was the bass guitarist? <\/p>\n<p>I sure as hell heard the dude, but I couldn&#8217;t actually see anyone playing bass. I know no one will notice, but it wouldn&#8217;t have harmed the film if Luke Kenny played bass instead of keyboards. <\/p>\n<p>Additional thoughts: Farhan doesn&#8217;t cut it as a singer; the cast did a superb job, and I particularly liked Shahana Goswami, Arjun Rampal and Purab Kohli; the lyrics of &#8220;Pichhle Saat Dinon Mein&#8221; are ludicrously bad&#8212;I predict that everyone involved with that song will cringe when they hear it ten years later. <\/p>\n<p>If you feel like watching a Hindi film this week, I strongly recommend <i>Rock On<\/i>. In any case, what options do you have? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/movies\/2008\/aug\/29chamku.htm\" title=\"Rediff's review of Chamku\"><i>Chamku<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Invisible Bass Guitarist - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-invisible-bass-guitarist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Invisible Bass Guitarist - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thoroughly enjoyed Rock On&#8212;the film was so much fun that I can forgive the typical Bollywood sins of tying up all loose ends and injecting unnecessary sentiness. 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