Wake Up Sid (Hindi)

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This is the story of Sidharth Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor), a lazy, unmotivated slacker from Mumbai whose life undergoes a series of changes after taking his final year college exams. Sid’s world is breezy, carefree, and without any true responsibilities. The most important elements in his life are his friends, his camera, his car, and his X-box 360.

Sid thrives around his two best friends, Rishi (Namit Das) and Laxmi (Shikha Talsania), very rarely communicates with his mother Sarita (Supriya Pathak) and takes his father Ram Mehra (Anupam Kher), and all his hard earned wealth for granted. Despite all these traits, Sid is an honest boy; sweet, funny, and above all, a good friend. Aisha Bannerjee (Konkona Sen Sharma), an aspiring writer from Calcutta, learns this soon enough when her path crosses with Sid’s on her first day in Mumbai. Ambitious, well-read, and driven, Aisha has come to Bombay to realize her dreams as a writer. Despite their contrasting personalities, Sid becomes Aisha’s first friend in the city.

As Aisha sets up her life in Bombay, with the help of Sid and his gang, Sid allows for time to fly by over long drives, parties that stretch well into dawn, and endless hours doing absolutely nothing. But summers vary rarely dull these days and Sid’s summer is no different. A series of circumstances and events compel him to take stock of his life and take a hard look at himself. Will he, at some point figure out what he’s supposed to be doing with his life? Wake up Sid!

This is the story of Sidharth Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor), a lazy, unmotivated slacker from Mumbai whose life undergoes a... Show More

sanghamitra

Editor   Feb 18, 2010 14:11  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Ranbir Kapoor is coming of age and his performances speak out for him. And this is one of those performances where no one can complain that he gets better roles just because he is a star kid. He is endearing, believable and delivers a very honest performance as a college kid who is cocooned and protected from the hardships of life and who's existence revolves around his gang of friends and fun, carefree days. The story revolves around how he grows up from a kid to a man and wakes up to the realities of life.

Konkona Sen delivers a brilliant performance in a complex role. She is an independent woman, living life on her terms and yet we see flashes of a girl in her (her face lights up at the bread-jam cake on her birthday, her indulgent smiles on seeing Ranbir and the neighbour's kid watching Mr. India). She handles the complex relationship of 'mother'ing Sid in his growing-up days when he moves in with her, their initial platonic relationship and explaining it to Sid's mother (Supriya Pathak), her feelings for her boss (Rahul Khanna) and finding herself in her writing, with mature acting.

But what sets Wake Up Sid apart is the smooth transition between scenes and the flow of the script. The Director (Ayan Mukerji) keeps the script tight yet subtle, not being in-the-face and yet getting the message across. Refreshing and definitely worth a watch.