I don’t know whether Dhoni the untold story was a good movie or not but considering the kind of movies the industry has made, it was a very excellent attempt on a more than excellent person. Bio-pics area a very important and an amiable means to introduce to the nation about the lives of Indians like you and me and the influence and character moulding they received during their learning phase from the country and its people. On this note if I was to revere one of the most adventurous and contributing personalities of all time on whose life a movie would totally rock the audience, it would be BABA ALLAUDIN KHAN. He was one of India most awesome rockstars and whose life can be very much traced out simultaneously to the character in the movie ROCKSTAR.
Ranbir Kapoor as Jordan was one of the best characters in Bollywood. The innocence and naive nature and a character who is so lost and unaware of the methods of life that he is unable to recognize his own music qualities hidden in him. We see that aggression very well when he realizes who he really is and a totally explosion of regret and remorse as to what he could have achieved if he by chance would have discovered his music skills earlier. But totally unaware and wandering aimlessly fate takes him to a Dargah and he learns to surrender all of what he lost to all of what was now open to him.
Khans life is no different. He ran away from the pressure of family ethics at the tender age of 10 and joined travelling troupes and learned from so many masters and teachers he came across in his journey. A journey without a sustainable tomorrow and a proper roof to sleep under but simply a dream which one day would enable him to be the wizard of a 3000 drupads in his knowledge and possess nearly 1200 different compositions. Not only is this but there an interesting student teacher chapter where Baba at the mature age of 40 is willing to come under the wheels of the car of the legendary Veena player Wazir Khan who is willing to take him as his student only after a very impressive audition. To the astonishment of Wazir Khan Baba turned out to be a player of all the instruments present in his royal Darbar. To add more elements from the perspective of a movie Allaudin Khan was a teacher several times harsh than Terence Fletcher and he too had a reputation for throwing things like a table tuning hammer because you won’t find folding chairs in the early 20th century. Now if all if this doesn’t fit the contents of a movie then I don’t know what does. Oh just in case if you still haven’t figured out the consequences of his work in today’s relevance then let me tell you that he was the Guru of the internationally recognized Pt. Ravi Shankar.
