

Aditya Shroff ( Farhan Akhtar) is the lead singer who rebelled against his well-to-do family to play music. The band are best friends and enjoy a carefree, freewheeling life together. Rock On!! begins in Mumbai, with the rock band Magik, in 1998. The direct sequel, Rock On!! 2, was released eight years later in 2016, but to negative reviews. The film was archived at the Academy Film Archive library. Inspired by the critically acclaimed South Korean movie 'A Happy Life'. The winner of seven Filmfare Awards, Rock On!! was critically acclaimed but had an average performance at the box office. Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Luke Kenny, and Purab Kohli star as members of the Mumbai-based grunge rock band, "Magik" (formed in 1998) who reunite in 2008.

The film marks the successful Bollywood debut of Akhtar and Prachi Desai. Rock On!! is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written and directed by Abhishek Kapoor, produced by Farhan Akhtar, and with music by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy.
