The story of the movie is about a college student, Sid, played by Ranbir Kapoor, who is simply careless about everything, from studies to relationships to his own future. This is because his dad (Anupam Kher) is a rich businessman who gives Sid more than enough money to spend. After giving his final exams, Sid tries to go to office but leaves that, too, within a week.

The story of Aisha (Konkana Sen Sharma) is going on with his story. Aisha is a girl from Kolkata who came to Mumbai to make her dream true of being a writer and to be independent. Both of them meet in a party and soon become friends. But, when the result of Sid comes out, things go awry. He leaves his home and starts living with Aisha, and this follows the tale of the waking up of Sid.

Technical Stuff

The director of the movie, Ayan Mukerji, who is a debutant, makes a great impact with his strong story telling talent. His script is really good and filled with humour. One thing which goes with the script is that it is not too preachy. It says what it wants to say very subtly. Direction is top class. But, the second part lacks pace while first half is pure awesomeness.

The most important thing which goes with the movie is its relativity. It doesn’t matter if you are a 20 year old guy or 60 year old uncle, you can relate to Sid mainly because you might have experienced the same thing during your time, too. Wake Up Sid is a very realistic movie and it shows the attitude of the youth very clearly. Scenes are very powerful and the one which involves the confrontation of Anupam Kher and Ranbir Kapoor is pure class!

Music is too good. I know a lot of people were complaining about music being too ordinary, but when you listen to the songs as background score (another master stroke by the director), you’ll love every song. The ones that stand out are “Iktara” and “Wake Up Sid”. Kudos to Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Amit Trivedi.

Cinematography is really good and so is the editing.

Acting Department

Now let’s come to the acting department. First things first, out of all the new age actors, only Ranbir Kapoor knows the art of acting. He’s so natural and there is no way you can’t relate to the character he portrayed. You can see the dilemma he is going through and he totally sucks you into his world. Well done, Ranbir! I’m really looking forward to the nominations this year.

Konkana Sen Sharma is as usual great but she somewhat reminded me of her performance of Luck By Chance. There was not much difference between the two, apart from the looks. But, nevertheless, a great performance.

On the supporting cast, Anupam Kher and Supriya Pathak (mother of Sid) shines. It’s really nice to see Anupam Kher doing a good role after the disastrous Dil Bole Hadippa. Rahul Khanna as Konkana’s boss has done a good job.

Final Verdict

Wake Up Sid sets another example for the new age cinema of Bollywood. Undoubtedly, it’s a film which will score big time with the college audience. It has its heart at the right place. Second part could have better as it took a lot of time to come to the final point. Ranbir Kapoor is top notch and so is Konkana. Ayan has a bright future in the industry. As for you people, please go and watch this movie. Bunk college, school or whatever, just watch it. And who knows, Wake Up Sid may become a wake up call for you.

Rating –

Cast – Ranbir Kapoor, Konkana Sen Sharma, Anupam Kher

Music Director – Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Amit Trivedi

Movie Director – Ayan Mukerji

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Story

Before giving my review, here is a little bit story and don’t worry spoilers because this movie doesn’t have any as it is predictable from the very beginning. The story revolves around a Punjabi girl Veera Kaur who has a dream to play for India in Cricket at international level. I don’t exactly know where she lives because sometimes they mention Amritsar but on the other hand, they are showing a village and Amritsar is not a village.

Now, there is a friendship between Vicky (Anupam Kher) who is an Indian and Lucky (Dilip Tahil) who is a Pakistani. They hold a cricket match between Indian Tigers and Pakistani Champions annually to celebrate their old friendship. The only problem is that Indian Tigers have been losing from the past 8 years. Therefore, Vicky calls his son Rohan (Shahid Kapoor) from England, who is the captain of a county team, to train the team.

Veera learns about the selection of the team and decides to enter but couldn’t as she is a girl. Therefore, she becomes a boy by putting on beard and gets selected in the team. The rest you can imagine, India winning in the end, romance between Shahid and Rani and the usual blah blah.

Technical Department

Before coming to anything, let me talk about the script. It is filled with so BIG loopholes that even an elephant can get into them, symbolically. Songs are coming out of nowhere, cheesy dialogues, same old GIRL VS BOY fight, girl can do anything and all that blah stuff. It’s not that I’m against it but you’ve to watch the movie to believe how ridiculous they’ve made it.

The first scene of the movie starts with this topic. Then there is old India Pakistan rivalry and friendship. Also, there is the captain in which you can see Kabir Khan of Chak De India. Jaya, Aparajita take a bow.

Here’s a sample. When Veera tries to enter the selection camp, security guard asks her to return home and tell the guys standing there “Jis din is gaun ki ladkion ne cricket khelna shuru kar diya, us din tum choodian pehan lena”. And then there is a crowd of followers of some Goddess pass in front of them and everyone starts praying.

To which Veera replies “Vaah, moorti ke saamne jhuk jaate ho par asli zindagi mein usi aurat ko kuchal dete ho”. Of Course, it was not the exact dialogue as I don’t remember the exact words but its meaning was the same as the dialogue above.

Now, let me come to the director, Anurag Singh. Dude, honestly, you should retire from directing movies and start doing something else. You don’t have 1 percent talent in direction and it would be better for you and for us, if you start doing something else. No wonder many portions have been re-shot of this movie. I wonder what this movie would have been without re-shots.

Music is ok and cinematography is nice. Locations of Punjab have been well captured.

Performances by Actors

Shahid Kapoor: To be very frank, I never considered Shahid a good actor till Kaminey. After Kaminey, my respect for him increased manifold but after watching this, it has come down to previous level. During his captain’s role, he looks exactly like SRK in CDI. The way of talking, talking to other teammates, it was like watching Kabir Khan Part 2. And if it was not enough, he even comes up on stage as SRK of DDLJ (complain the script writers and the director).

And in the rest of the part, he is just Shahid Kapoor. He doesn’t look like Rohan from any angle. He has not done anything in characterization of Rohan. You take his role in Kismat Konnection and this one and compare them. You won’t find a single difference between two characters. They react the same way, walk the same way, attitude is same. This shouldn’t be there because the circumstances, financial conditions, everything is different.

Kudos to Vishal Bhardawaj for making him do acting in Kaminey. I think most of the work on character was done by Vishal only.

Rani Mukerji: Dil Bole Hadippa is supposed to be the comeback movie of Rani. I think, in the whole crew, she is the only one who has done some effort to make the movie work. Her role as Veer Pratap Singh is worth an applause.

But darling, start choosing some better films otherwise it won’t be too long for you to disappear like other actresses. Try doing something out of Yash Raj Camp.

Supporting Cast: Anupam Kher was his usual. Rakhi Sawant did her role of an actress without any conviction. I want to ask one thing to the producers and the director, what the hell was Sherlyn Chopra doing in the movie? Was she there only to show boobs and hot legs? Jesus! I never expected such thing coming out of Yash Raj camp.

Final Verdict

Many people walked off when India won the match in the end. To be honest, I envy those people as they saved themselves from the most tormented scene in the movie. The last 2-3 minute speech by Rani which felt like 2 hours and by the end of which, captain of Pakistani team started clapping. She asks one question, “Why can’t a woman play with Sachin if she plays as good as men?”

Here’s the answer darling; because it’s a Men’s team for god sake. Whoever came up with this dialogue should be thrown out of Bollywood.

I recommend you to not to waste time and money on this. Save your money for What’s Your Raashee which will be releasing next week.

In fact, this movie is so bad that not even a single woman clapped during the movie. Even women rights activists would be ashamed of this one.

In short; Dil Bole Hadippa = Wannabe Chak De India + Wannabe She’s the man + Wannabe DDLJ + Wannabe Indo Pak movie + Wannabe Women rights movie.

Rating –

Cast – Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Rakhi Sawant, Sherlyn Chopra, Anupam Kher

Music Director – Pritam

Movie Director – Anurag Singh

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