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Rock on, how many have the guts to follow ther dream??

Manu Kris (Market Risk Analyst) (185 Points)

02 October 2008

Heyy guyssss .......many guys whos re CAs workin in the field of the field of finance ,banking and accounts have lots of other talents............ What do u sayyyyyyy ...............Do u hv the guts to pursue ur real dreammmmmmmm

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Aisha (Finance Professional) (8099 Points)
Replied 02 October 2008

Rock On: Every pursuit has a price!

Following one’s dreams is not a cake walk, or else everybody would do it all the time. There would be no need for incitements to it. Indeed, the biggest graveyard would not be found in any cemetery but in the arena of dreams turned to ashes.

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IN THE closing frames of the film Rock On! a lilting melody wafts through as the credits flash by…’Kuch to arzoo kijiye… phir dekhiye, phir dekhiye…’. On the screen appears how the guitarist Joe (Arjun Rampal) starts a business of identifying new musical talent and his wife (Shahana Goswami) till now involved in the business of selling fish and entirely frustrated by it, finally leaves the job. The other characters in the film too begin to pursue their dreams and passions that they had identified in their younger years, but had then chosen to bury it deep as they left the carefree years of their youth behind.

Pursuing one’s dreams and passions is not easy or else, everyone would be doing it all the time and there would be no need for exhortations to this end. Indeed, the biggest graveyard in the world would not be found in any cemetery, but in the arena of dreams turned to ashes, passions buried deep and desires ruthlessly cut down to size before they matured enough to bear fruit.

In the film itself, Farhan Akhtar gives up his role as the lead vocalist and settles into the stressed, but predictable and materially comfortable life of an investment banker. Arjun Rampal, who stays a guitarist doesn’t fare as well and he and his wife are able to make ends meet – not because his musical passion pays off, but because his wife begins a business of supplying fish to Mumbai’s big and happening parties -- she detests the work and the manner of people she has to deal with and the way she has to conduct the business; and in the end – because Joe is a wonderful guitarist albeit a terrible sense of career, it is her job that puts food on their table.

The secret of a successful passion chase is persistence. Indeed, life as such is about persistence; but persistence is rather a hollow word when the battle that you are fighting is one that you are fighting alone.

In Farhan Akhtar’s case, his father’s intense disapproval of his son’s career as a musician makes him don the conventional role of a banker and a similar lack of support from his family ensures that Purab Kohli ends up as an assistant in his father’s jewellery shop.

Life, as the makers of Rock On! seem keen to emphasise, is about second chances all right, but it is also about getting the right kind of support to ensure that one is able to capitalise on the chances that come one’s way. Without that support – be it from peers as it happens in the film or be it from any other source, one may get any number of chances in life, but they will never get us any where at all.

Most of us do not need to be told to Rock On! We want to; we would love to; we want to spend our life rocking…. It is just that many of us have been stopped in our tracks by blows that have left us lame and crippled…. And now, no second chance or second wind is enough to convince us that chasing our passions is a good idea at all.

Shantanu Dutta