{"id":642,"date":"2009-09-22T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/09\/movie-preview-wake-up-sid-2.html"},"modified":"2011-06-14T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:40:22","slug":"movie-preview-wake-up-sid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/09\/movie-preview-wake-up-sid-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Preview : Wake up Sid !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update : Here&#8217;s the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/movie-review-wake-up-sid.html\"><strong>review<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWake up Sid\u201d is produced by Karan Johar and <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/ronnie%20screwvala\">Ronnie Screwvala<\/a>, and written and directed by Ayan Mukerji (Rani Mukherjee\u2019s cousin). From the promos WUS appears to be a \u201ccoming of age\u201d film, much like \u201cLakshya\u201d. Here you have charmer Ranbir Kapoor \u2013 and he seems quite perfect for the role, because he \u201clooks\u201d (and this might be just my point of view) like a rich, young wastrel, which he is in the film. Great casting, yes&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42 ?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway Kapoor is Siddharth Mehra aka Sid, going along his merry, wealth-paved way with a nary a care in the world. He doesn\u2019t worry about the future as long as he\u2019s having fun today. What he needs he\u2019s got \u2013 the love of his parents (Anupam Kher and the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/review-delhi-6.html\">Supriya Pathak<\/a>, who I wish did more films) and their money \u2013 hence a comfy, cushy life, which he takes for granted. He\u2019s also got 2 dependable friends Rishi (Namit Das) and Laxmi (Shikha Talsania). Soon enough he makes one more \u2013 Aisha Banerjee (<a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/konkona%20sen%20sharma\">Konkona Sen Sharma<\/a>) a talented writer from Calcutta, looking to find her space in Mumbai. <\/p>\n<p>With her advent into his life, things begin to change for Sid, and at the end of a momentous summer, he must decide what he wants from life.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0fCS34P7tA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, the promos project the film to be a love-story between immature, young slacker Sid (played by 27 year old <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/review-bachna-ae-haseeno.html\">Ranbir Kapoor<\/a>) and relatively saner (and smarter ?) Aisha (played by 30 year old Sen-Sharma). Konkona, a very able actress, appears to play the part of the more \u201cgrounded\u201d character, much like the one she played in <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/review-luck-by-chance.html\">\u201cLuck by chance\u201d<\/a>, while Ranbir gets to fool around a bit more as happy-go-lucky, but oh-so-sweet and nice Sid Mehta. Kapoor looks to be a star in the making, having inherited his father\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/review-chintuji.html\">Rishi Kapoor<\/a>) buoyant charm, and his mother\u2019s (Neetu Singh) sparkly verve. And there\u2019s no one like him to carry off the part of an empty-headed young wastrel, AND make you like him !<\/p>\n<p>Although I\u2019ve always felt that <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/review-kabhi-alvida-na-kehna.html\">Karan Johar\u2019s films<\/a> are generally eye-candy and not much more, this one with a different director at the helm might turn out to have more meat. The promos hold out the promise of a more sensitive handling than Johar films generally get, but of course only upon viewing the real thing can one actually tell. The music, composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy has so far (and I\u2019ve listened a few times) appeared \u201cdifferent\u201d and not necessarily catchy \u2013 maybe it needs time to grow on one ? \u201cKya karoon\u201d seems to be the best of the lot.<\/p>\n<p>The official website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakeupsidthefilm.com\/\">here<\/a>. \u201cWake Up Sid\u201d releases Oct 2nd. I\u2019m looking forward to this one !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update : Here&#8217;s the review. \u201cWake up Sid\u201d is produced by Karan Johar and Ronnie Screwvala, and written and directed by Ayan Mukerji (Rani Mukherjee\u2019s cousin). From the promos WUS appears to be a \u201ccoming of age\u201d film, much like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/09\/movie-preview-wake-up-sid-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,14,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-drama","category-previews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"Update : Here&#8217;s the review. \u201cWake up Sid\u201d is produced by Karan Johar and Ronnie Screwvala, and written and directed by Ayan Mukerji (Rani Mukherjee\u2019s cousin). 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