Now, I wasn’t sure what the whole raving was all about until I went to a theatre to watch the movie ‘Wake up Sid,’ “finally” as some of my friends would like to add.
In half an hour, it was clear to me as to why some of my friends (girls precisely) were raving about it, with Mr. Kapoor and Mr. Khanna, I wonder if they’d noticed anything else. For the rest like me, the movie was an utter drag.
It is a story of a typical Mumbaiya spoilt brat Sid and people around him. Beginning from the fun college days to the highly clichéd last day party, the results, the enlightenment, a few twists n a few turns, a bit of hard-working, fun-loving, charming, problem solving chocolate heroism, and wollah…viewer is finally relieved it is all over.
Don’t hold your breath as the movie doesn’t have any surprises, it proceeds just as you and I would think it would proceed. We all have watched Farhan Akhtar’s Lakshya and it is hard not to compare this half baked product with Lakshya. Unlike Lakshya, this one strays a lot from it centre theme (or at least what we were brought to think was the central idea of waking Sid up). By the time movie reaches its climax, I couldn’t help but wonder if the previous 10 reels were rolled for the romance to take place or was it to show how a boy grows into a man and finds his destiny and blah blah…
Sid and Aisha, the two main characters share most of the spotlights, however, the focus keeps shifting from one to the other and the idea of waking Sid up seems to get lost in all of this. Some scenes are so lame and so drag that all I could think was ‘I would love to have all the tees Ranbir has worn in the movie.’ However, some of the scenes are really high intensity and very well shot such as one where Aisha(Konkana Sen) returns home all jumbled up and fuming and Sid empties a bottle of water on her head. This one captures the sensuous moment between Sid and Ayesha and trust me Aisha looks nothing short of stunning.
Music is pleasant but nothing that sticks on beyond the exit door of the movie hall. Costumes are very well designed / picked and especially, the locations that are chosen to shoot are refreshing, realistic and any Bombay lover would be able to associate with them.
A subtle love story springing to life in the last moment, romancing the city through the lens of camera, signature Dad played by Anupam Kher, power pack performance by miss Sen and eye-pleasing and natural Ranbir Kapoor, the movie is solid but only in bits n pieces. Bollywood’s old recipe of ‘a lil bit of everything’ has spoilt this one.
Neo
