Wake Up Sid – Review
A spoilt brat called Sid (Ranbir Kapoor), Aisha (Konkona Sen) (I want to be) independent girl from Kolkata, a father who’s upset and a typical Bollywood mother. Well, that sums up the cast. Let me start the review by saying that this is a film for rich kids who would be able to identify with the protagonist. Im not sure if there are too many. And also a few (I want to marry Ranbir, he so cute) girls who would swoon over him.
The movie opens with Sid trying to study but fails everytime he tries to put his mind to it. He has a Man-Friday called Chotu who wakes him up everyday and serves him his breakfast. He has 3 best friends who hang out with him at college and parties. Sid spends his fathers money like water on himself and his friends and drives around in imported cars. He meets a girl called Aisha who hails from Kolkata. She is career minded and dreams of living independently in Mumbai.
Sid wants a Porsche car for himself and makes a deal with his Daddy to attend office for a month in return for the car. Obviously he doesn’t finish his term at office and in the meantime helps Aisha rent a house in the city. He gets his results and fails in more than 3 subjects and starts blaming everybody but himself for the failure. He gets home and insults his mother and has a huge fight with his father, who in turn asks him to leave the house. He straight goes to Aisha’s house and starts living in with her.
Aisha is the kind of girl who is looking for a man with ideals absolutely in contrast with Sid’s. So they share a platonic relationship and Aisha gets him a job at her office as an intern photographer. He does well at his job and gets his first paycheck, which he takes to his father and reconciles with him. He returns home much to the irritation of Aisha who has gotten used to living with Sid by now. The end is rather strange when it starts raining and Sid decides to go to Aisha and confess his love. They meet and say “I love you” to each other and the movie ends. Huh
The problem is that the film is so predictable that it becomes tedious at times. Its difficult to identify with Sid because he is a dumb spoilt guy who till the end gets what he wants in spite of being himself. The characters have no depth, well none of them except for Aisha. Basically it becomes irritating at some point due to the movies predictability. Ranbir and Konkona have both acted well but it would’ve been better if they had done another film together. Some reviewers have given this movie good reviews, but the same ones have give DO KNOT DISTURB, the movie that released along with this one, good reviews as well. I guess that doesn’t say much for it. You have to see that one to believe what I am saying (and try to come out without pulling out your hair). Ranbir Kapoor is a promising actor but I think he should read the script and not the name of the production house before signing a film. Well, in a few days the story of this film being a hit will come out in the media and he will sign 3 more big budget films (he might’ve already) but I think an actor needs a genuine hit for his own confidence, which is absent in his case.
To sum it all up, this is the director (Ayan Mukherjee’s) attempt at making a cute film but it takes a lot more than just a chocolate boy and an award winning actress to get it right. Better luck next time, I guess. Wake Up Ayan.
RishiO Review meter – 2/5
