New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The 1984 masterpiece This is Spinal Tap-available to rent on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video-is the best rock movie. In the film documenting the misadventures of fictional band Spinal Tap, when frontman and rhythm guitarist David St Hubbins is asked what he would like engraved on his tombstone when he dies, the blond rocker has a think. "Here lies David St Hubbins," he begins, grandly, as if about to deliver a line of spectacular import, a serving of accidental philosophy, an aphorism, something witty and quotable. Then, almost immediately, his blond eyebrows sag. "And why not?"

Why not, indeed? I have always loved that line from an exhausted old rocker, and I find it elegant, even poignant, in its casual existentia...