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Filmi Score
Very good
8 reviews
72
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Critics agree Ranbir Kapoor's performance and Rahman's score are the film's strongest assets, even as several call the love story uneven, predictable, or prone to melodrama in its second half.
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Summary
Rockstar (2011, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 72 from 8 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Brew in the US.
College student Janardhan is a simpleton who desperately seeks inspiration for the musician inside him. Although heartbreak helps him reach his goal, it also leads him to self-destruction.
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College student Janardhan is a simpleton who desperately seeks inspiration for the musician inside him. Although heartbreak helps him reach his goal, it also leads him to self-destruction.
Rockstar (2011, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 72 from 8 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Brew in the US.
Where to watch
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Desai calls Rockstar a refreshingly restrained artist's-rise story that avoids genre clichés, crediting Ranbir's career-best performance and… Read it there →
The reviewer calls Rockstar a bittersweet, technically polished journey elevated by Ranbir Kapoor's transformative performance and Rahman's music,… Read it there →
Shekhar calls Ranbir's performance career-defining and Rahman's score exceptional, framing the film as a rare personal, auteur-driven mainstream… Read it there →
Verma calls Rockstar Ranbir's tour de force and a heartfelt Imtiaz Ali vision anchored by Rahman's score and Mehta's cinematography, acknowledging… Read it there →
Sen finds a simple, sometimes predictable story elevated by Ranbir's committed performance and Ali's restrained, detail-rich direction, faulting… Read it there →
Bhattacharya praises Kapoor's performance and Rahman's score but finds the story a shallow 'candyfloss romance' masquerading as an artist's… Read it there →
Bamzai says the film opens electrically but collapses into excess, calling most performances buffoonish or cringingly bad; she credits Rahman's… Read it there →
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28
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 8 readings; 1 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Rockstar: quick answers
Box office, where to watch and what critics said — from the same data as the page.
Where can I watch Rockstar?
Rockstar is streaming on OTT: ZEE5 (India), Eros Now (India, the US and the UK) and Brew (India, the US, the UK and Canada). It can also be rented or bought on Apple TV (India, the US, the UK and Canada), Amazon Video (the US and the UK) and Google Play Movies (the US). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Rockstar?
Rockstar has a Filmi Score of 72 (Very good), the mean of 8 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 28 (India Today) to 85 (Times of India). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
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