- Rockford (film)
Infobox Film
name = Rockford
caption = DVD cover of "Rockford"
director =Nagesh Kukunoor
producer =SIC Productions
starring =Nagesh Kukunoor Nandita Das Rohan Dey Kailash Atmanathan Ulrika Krishnamurthy Imran music =
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
released = 1999
country = IND
language = English
imdb_id = 0261243"RockFord" is a 1999 film directed by
Nagesh Kukunoor .ynopsis
A boy named Rajesh Naidu comes to Hyderabad and gets admitted in a beautiful catholic boarding school located in a pristine hill station in southern India. Rajesh Naidu arrives at Rockford Boy’s High School, fresh faced, just completing 13 years having left home for the first time he is a bit sad. Rajesh's best friends Selva, a happy-go-lucky kid, and David, an arrogant sports hero with a heart of gold. With them, he experiences the joy and agony of living in an all male boarding school where one has to learn to fend for oneself without the safety net of ones parents. In these days he meets his PT Instructor Johnny Matthews who teaches Rajesh lots of things and they become friends. One day the school arranges a fete in which the girls also participate every year and all the boys are to propose at least one girl and Rajesh is least interested.Still he goes to the fete on insisted by Selva and David tells Rajesh to give a card to Malati a student from girls section.Malati starts liking Rajesh. Since David is a happy go lucky kind of guy he takes it easily.One day on Rajesh's birthday Johnny Matthews pretending to be Malati's uncle brings her out of the school to meet Rajesh. This information is then passed on to the Brother Lawrence. Shariyar who is Malati's friend says that Johnny Matthews took me to buy an ice cream while Malati and Rajesh were alone and he assaulted me which is a lie. Still Brother Lawrence believing that asks Johnny Matthews to resign which he does. Rajesh gets angry with all this and he hits the Captain (Name not known) and makes him confess that whatever Shariyar said in front of Brother Lawrence about Johnny Matthews was a lie, which he does and everything ends well.
Cast
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Nagesh Kukunoor as Johnny Matthews (PT Instructor)
*Rohan Dey as Rajesh Naidu
*Usha Krishnamurthy as Malati
*Jayant Kripalani as Brother Lawrence
*Shilpa Pai as Shariyar
*Sohail Bajaj as RajaExternal links
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