Reviews for WAKE UP SID - Page 8

Searchindia Review


Tis' a pity that the talented duo of Ranbir Kapoor and Konkana Sen had to team up with a moron like Ayan Mukerji (credited here for direction, story and screenplay).

Both Ranbir and Konkana are decent actors, by Bollywood standards.

And it's a mighty shame they hitched their trailer to the Ayan jalopy.

The duo's capable performance was the sole saving grace of Wake Up Sid because the rest of the movie is boring trash.

Of the two, we'd say Ranbir was a little ahead in the acting department displaying a wider range of emotions.

The girl had a PMS-cramps-weighing-down-on-her expression far too often.

Still, we'll take Konkana any day over the Kareenas, Katrinas and the other Klowns of Bollywood.

Boring Shit
The Wake Up Sid story is a pathetically banal, crappy piece of shit.

A rich brat having a good time with his father's cash and doesn't take anything seriously.

Not his studies. Not his father's business.

Nothing save partying and having a good time with his buddies counts with our Siddharth a.k.a Sid.

But for our Aisha Banerjee (Konkana Sen), newly arrived in Bombay (take that you jackass, Raj Thackeray) from Kolkata with a serious expression and more serious dreams of becoming a writer, goals and mature behavior matter.

No sooner is she in Bombay than she serendipitously meets our kid Sid.

Although polar opposites, they quickly become close friends. So close that when Sid walks out of his home in a huff he drops anchor at her home.

Yeah, Sid is disorganized, his room is a mess and he can't cook.

Hello, is that enough material for a movie?

By God, no. That's kid stuff.

How Sid turns into a responsible fella and the friends find love constitutes the rest of this yawn-yawn story.

What Music
None of the songs had any life in them.

DOA
Strange how this buffoon Ayan Mukerji got to handle as onerous a task as making a movie.

Well, one more of life's many mysteries.

Folks, this crap is most certainly not worth $10.50 or $12.50 (depending on whether you are watching it in NJ or NYC).


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Looks like I'll wait untill its on netflix. 😃

Originally posted by: gossip.girl

Oh I really wanna noe if Ranbir was better than Konkona? 😳

According to searchindia reviews (whose reviews I blindly believe because they've worked for me 95%) he was better than Konkona. 😊

The girl had a PMS-cramps-weighing-down-on-her expression far too often. 🤣 🤣

i dont know tears just started falling LMAO
i felt so bad for sid when he failed...when he left the house
came back to his mom..

ranbir better the konkana???hmmm not so much...50-50 both were equally good


i only cry in SRK movies(though aamir is my fav actor LOL) and this is 2nd tme i had tears in my eyes in Ranbirs movie

saawriyas ending and now this movieee

Okkkkk....just watched WUS :D
I'd say its okey-ish movie--nothing ground breaking- nothing khas...one thing I'm happy about--- Thank God!! not too melodramatic....but again, just about an average movie. kinda felt like same old same old. I mean-- How many 'coming of age' movies have u seen before? They were supposed to be inspirational/ self realization but apparently, this movie is not.

Ranbir and Konkona both were good.

Music was mediocre. Didnt like any song with an exception of Iktara, which was awesomest.

All in all-- just about average. n' I'm saying this (average) because I had absolutely no expectations.

Originally posted by: friends_rock

The casual, conversational style of dialogue makes it easy to relate to this film and its characters, even though their conflicts appear too superficial to take seriously. Hiccups are resolved quickly and conveniently, and to be honest it's hard to say exactly how and what has changed about Sid. By the end of the film, sure he can fry an egg, and he knows how to do the dishes too. And yes, he does land a job as a magazine photographer, but did he go through a catharsis? I'm sorry I missed it'

Wake Up Sid might be described as a PG-13 version of a coming-of-age film

I agree with Rajeev Masand right here. It was too superficial...

But it's a cute film...sweet...too sugary in fact. But it was good enough to keep me hooked for 2 hrs or so....I won't comment further since I have seen a very bad print.

so am i the crazy one who cried?LMAOO...now i feel stupid adn embarrased LOL

Wake Up Sid Rocks Bangalore



Saturday 3rd October 2009 17.30 IST

Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network



Wake Up Sid has recorded phenomenal first day collections in Bangalore. The Mysore figures are the second best of 2009 and amongst the top five ever. Simply amazing for a like Wake Up Sid. Below are the first day figures from Mysore circuit.

Bangalore Total - 31,83,934

Mysore Circuit Total - 35,12,519 from 16 cinemas

http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1180&nCat=news

Subhash K Jha speaks about Wake Up Sid

By Subhash K. Jha, October 3, 2009 - 09:58 IST

Wake up, Bollywood. Here comes the warmest most credible captivating and kaleidoscopic coming-of-age film since Dil Chahta Hai.

Wake Up, Sid has no overt dramatic highs and lows. It has an inherent charm and candor in its storytelling that take the narrative a very, very long way, right to the heartwarming lovers' union ending on the seaside where the only splashy thing is the sea and where Sid embraces love with all its glorious shortcomings.

At the end of Sid's saga of spiritual awakening one is a little flummoxed by what quality in debutant Ayan Mukherjee's film makes this film so endearing. Could it be the disarming lack of artifice and affectations in the way Ayan portrays Sid's journey from slothful affluence to working-class agility?

Or could it be just the fact that Ayan uses tender supple moments in the narrative as though they were punctuation marks in a long and deeply disarming discourse on 'How To Find Yourself & Your True Vocation In The Melee Of Bombay....sorry, Mumbai.'

Wake Up, Sid is a triumph on many levels. It takes the protagonist's predictable but yet kinetic voyage into self-realization to a level where the languorous plot exudes a beam of light that cuts right across the radiant narrative. The colours are bright but never glaring. The film is shot in a warm and sunny speckled ambience filled with fleeting glimpses into hearts that are forever on a run. The moments to retrospect are snatched from the bustle of metropolitan life.

The most obtainable component of young Ayan Mukherjee's artless narrative is the remarkable rhythms of the ordinary and the unostentatious in the narrative. All the relationships in the plot are potentially predictable and cliched. Ayan takes the age-old dramatic conflicts of our commercial cinema into quiet supremely understated corridors.

Wake Up, Sid gives us many moments to carry home. Whether it is Ranbir Kapoor with his screen-father (Anupam Kher) or his mother (Supriya Pathak, endearing n her simplicity), or his bummy-chummy camaraderie with his friends (Shikha Talsania and Namit Das are credible all the way as Laxmi and Rishi) the motivations behind the characters' words bubble to the surface without external props to hammer in the emotions.

The background score and cinematography (Anil Mehta) are done in practical and unassuming shades. Mumbai never looked less romanticized. The relationship between Ranbir and Konkona develops as they move around her cramped apartment. Miraculously their hearts never bump into the furniture. The narrative dodges the clamor of daily life with a determined fluency.

Konkona Sen-Sharma as the Kolkata girl trying to find her bearings in the cool largely heartless city of Mumbai conveys so much of her character's unstated emotions that we wonder if she's even aware of the camera's presence. And she isn't alone in her pursuit of a non-cinematic performance in a film that salutes and dodges predictable drama. Anupam Kher as Sid's father effectively uses his limited space to create a tycoon who wants his laadla to stand on his own sneakered feet.

It's the little-little things that the characters do when the camera isn't looking that nourishes the narrative.

Would this wonderfully -uncrowded film have worked without Ranbir Kapoor? Ranbir's Sid is a near-perfect portrait of the aimless young man searching for a direction in life. Ranbir handles the character's inner life with the effortlessness of a Sitar maestro twiddling with his instrument's strings to create a music that takes the audience to a world where the sounds suggest a harmony between art and life.

In Wake Up, Sid Ranbir proves once and for all that he's the future of Hindi cinema.

As for Ayan Mukherjee, the debutant director gives us insight into maturity of hearts even when they are stubbornly immature in their outward conduct.

Don't miss this wake-up call from a director-actor duo that have created a world of heartbreaking transparency.

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2009/10/03/5545/

Review: Ranbir outshines the script, dialogues