Rockstar

Awards

Album Awards:
• 2012 - GiMA Awards - Best Music Director - A.R. Rahman
• 2011 - Filmfare Awards - Best Music Director - A.R. Rahman
• 2011 - Screen Awards - Best Music - A.R. Rahman
• 2012 - GiMA Awards - Best Background Score - A.R. Rahman
• 2011 - IIFA Awards - Best Music Direction - A.R. Rahman
• 2011 - IIFA Awards - Best Background Score - A.R. Rahman
• 2011 - Zee Cine Awards - Best Lyrics - Irshad Kamil
• 2011 - Zee Cine Awards - Best Music - A.R. Rahman
• 2020 - Mirchi Music Awards - Album Of The Decade - A.R. Rahman, Irshad Kamil, Kavita Subramaniam, Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan, Karthik, Harshdeep Kaur, Suzanne D'Mello
Song Awards:
• 2012 - GiMA Awards - Best Playback Singer (Male) - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - A.R. Rahman, Mohit Chauhan
• 2011 - Mirchi Music Awards - Music Director Of The Year - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - A.R. Rahman
• 2012 - GiMA Awards - Best Lyricist - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - Irshad Kamil
• 2011 - Filmfare Awards - Best Lyricist - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - Irshad Kamil
• 2011 - IIFA Awards - Best Lyrics - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - Irshad Kamil
• 2011 - IIFA Awards - Best Male Playback Singer - Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - Mohit Chauhan
• 2011 - Filmfare Awards - Best Male Playback Singer - Jo Bhi Main Kahna Chahoon - Mohit Chauhan
• 2011 - Zee Cine Awards - Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer – Male - Jo Bhi Main Kahna Chahoon - Mohit Chauhan
• 2011 - Screen Awards - Best Male Playback Singer - Phir Se Ud Chala - Mohit Chauhan
• 2012 - GiMA Awards - Best Playback Singer (Male) - Kun Faya Kun - A.R. Rahman, Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan
• 2011 - Screen Awards - Best Male Playback Singer - Sadda Haq Aithe Rakh - Mohit Chauhan

Trivia

Album

• Lyricist Irshad Kamil was upset when he found out that he had not been credited in the initial lot of CDs released for this film album. The omission was apparently due to a "clerical error" and his name was included in the subsequent CD releases.[1]
• This was Shammi Kapoor's last film. The film paid tribute to him by opening with a recreation of the film's poster in which his image replaced Ranbir Kapoor's. A word that became synonymous with him - "Yahoo!" - appeared across this image. This was the only film in which Shammi Kapoor and his grand-nephew Ranbir Kapoor worked together.
• Imtiaz Ali had initially considered Kareena Kapoor for the lead role in this film. However, since Ranbir Kapoor had already been cast as the film's male lead, Imtiaz had to let Kareena go - Ranbir and Kareena were first cousins and couldn't be paired romantically onscreen. The director also considered Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty but the role eventually went to the debutant actress Nargis Fakhri.[2][3][4]
• Ranbir Kapoor's character in this film was inspired by a friend of Imtiaz Ali.[5]
• In a scene in this film, the characters played by Ranbir Kapoor and Nargis Fakhri were shown watching a soft-porn film titled "Junglee Jawani". Actual footage from the film "Jungle Love" (2007), featuring actress Yashika Suryavanshi, was used in this scene. Yashika objected to being shown as an actress in a sleazy film and said that her reputation had been damaged. She said that she would file a complaint with the Cine & TV Artistes Association (CINTAA) against the makers of this film as well as Suresh Jain, the producer of "Jungle Love" (2007).[6]
• Sanjana Sanghi debuted as a child artist in this film. She was 15 years old at the time. She debuted in an adult role in the film "Hindi Medium" (2017) and played her first lead role in "Dil Bechara" (2020).[7][8]

Song

• Kun Faya Kun - The title of this song is an Arabic phrase that translates to "Be! And, it is.".
• Kun Faya Kun - The song was filmed at the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi. The qawwals who performed the song on screen, the Nizami clan of Chand, Shadab, and Sohrab, were actually regular performers at the dargah.[9]
• Hawaa Hawaa - According to lyricist Irshad Kamil, it took him ten days to write the lyrics of this song since he found director Imitiaz Ali's brief for it very challenging. Ali was shooting the song in Prague and wanted the song's lyrics to be based on a popular Czech folk tale called "Sleepy John". Imtiaz Ali also wanted to retain some nonsensical filler lyrics A.R. Rahman had used while composing the song.[10]
• Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja - Irshad Kamil adapted a doha written by Baba Farid to come up with the lines sung by Mohit Chauhan towards the end of this song. This doha was used previously in the title song of the film "Piya Milan Ki Aas" (1961) and in "Kaaga Sab Tan Khaiyo (Kithe Nain Na Jodin)" ("Himalay Putra", 1997).[11][12]
• Sadda Haq Aithe Rakh - A.R. Rahman roped in the Australian guitar prodigy Orianthi Panagaris to play the guitar for this song. At the age of 24, Orianthi shot to fame when she played the lead guitar for Carrie Underwood at the 2009 Grammy Awards ceremony. Impressed by her, Michael Jackson invited her to play live with him for his This Is It concerts in London. The Michael Jackson gigs never happened due to his sudden death.[13][14]
• Sadda Haq Aithe Rakh - Days before the release of this film, it was reported in the press that the Censor Board had asked Imtiaz Ali to remove shots in this song that showed a "Free Tibet" banner. It was initially reported that the director had refused to delete those images. However, when the film hit the theatres, "Tibet" was blurred from the banner. This resulted in anti-censorship protests by supporters of the Tibetan cause in various parts of the country. The Censor Board clarified that they had already certified the film with those shots and would not ask for changes after certification. According to them, Imtiaz Ali had made the change voluntarily.[15][16]

1. ^ Irshad Kamil upset
2. ^ Kareena and I couldn't act together: Ranbir
3. ^ Imtiaz Ali says Deepika Padukone was his first choice for Ranbir Kapoor's Rockstar
4. ^ Rockstar was offered to me first: Diana Penty
5. ^ Ranbir's Rockstar character inspired from Imtiaz's friend
6. ^ Junglee actress is upset with the makers of Rockstar
7. ^ Hindi Medium (2017)
8. ^ Dil Bechara (2020)
9. ^ Chand Nizami interview
10. ^ A man of words
11. ^ Piya Milan Ki Aas Re (Kaaga Sab Tan Khaiyo) (Piya Milan Ki Aas, 1961)
12. ^ Kaaga Sab Tan Khaiyo (Kithe Nain Na Jodin) (Himalay Putra, 1997)
13. ^ Last Name (Live) - Carrie Underwood
14. ^ This Is It - Michael Jackson
15. ^ Sadda Haq under Censor fire
16. ^ Protests over Tibetan flag deletion In film continue