Wake up Sid(2009)



I was too busy for the three days that I couldn’t find time to write about the movies which I watched during weekend.Wake Up Sid after its promising trailer and refreshing songs doesn’t live up to the expectation due to some thing which is unexpected.Movie is slow but for me I wasn’t comfortable with Konkana sen ,Can you believe it was her character which didn’t make me comfortable when looking in to the whole movie.

Sid Mehra is a rich kid ,not spoiled though but self arrested .He wears cartoon sox and loves Simpson's cartoon.Surfs with his apple mac about cars even before the night of accounting exams.He is not aware of the word seriousness nor perfection.He meets Ayesha(Konkana Sen) in a party ,an wannabe journalist who is a perfectionist and though both of them are from different worlds they get each other in a friendship.Sid comes out of his house when his Dad questions about his exam results and stays with Ayesha.How the world of Sid awakes due to Ayesha is the whole movie.

Konkana is an amazing actor but I cant keep on seeing the same characterisation .What was needed was refreshing like Ranbir’s character.Even her costumes were much like Luck by chance character played by her.Konkana is struggling for her career in all her movies.Her character is a matured character but even she looked so matured for Sid .Her character is not to fall in love with Sid but slowly get in to the world of Sid .For us that slowly takes away the time completely. Movie is about the two characters and we dont see any thing new ,We are given with something where every thing happens unbelievably with out any struggle.

Ranbir is stunning with his performance,He is handsome ,refreshing,funny,harmless and interesting too.You would like his character but you wouldn’t like to be him .The character Sid is poetic at times ,that makes him to change and evolve from his self arrest.Some how the romance between Sid and Ayesha didn’t make an impact ,though these coming age movies doesn’t have a dramatic emotions to impress.I liked Character Laxmi who played the fat friend of Sid,she was very expressive and realistic.

I love the music of this movie and I am repeating it in my play list almost for a month.Wake up sid starts off promising resembling much like Dil Chahta Hai but fades away as the movies moves .We don’t have a impressive screen play which could have lifted the Ranbir’s performance.But still the movie shows Ranbir can act well.

Rating :**

Comments

B.V.K. said…
True, the songs are awesome. SEL have been doing a tremendous job since they burst into the bollywood scene with their music. S's soulful voice makes u listen to the songs again n again :)
October 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM
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