Oct 20, 2009 05:53 PM
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(Updated Oct 20, 2009 06:20 PM)
While it would be daft to dub Wake Up Sid a Dil Chahta Hai clone, it clearly pays tribute to Farhan Akhtar's 2001 breakthrough directorial debut. Ayan's Sid appears to be an amalgamation of all of the three leading men in DCH. His directionless-and-loving-it smugness is derived from Aamir Khan's Aakash. He sports a hip 'n' boyish wardrobe/haircut reminiscent of Saif Ali Khan's Sameer whilst sharing the creative sensibilities of namesake Siddharth aka Sid played by Akshaye Khanna.
The above excerpt is taken from the Rediff review and there can’t be a better interpretation of the movie than this. It truly deserves the comparison with DCH. It’s fresh and sensible. It takes you back in your life without putting much effort. It has its own moments of happiness-sadness like we all have in our lives. It has its own pace which sometimes gets as slow as walking in a deserted dark night and sometimes as fast as breaking up with your childhood friend.
There are several movies made on same theory – a clueless youngster. But, this movie is different. It’s different in the way it is implemented. It is different in the way it portrays life in a realistic manner. Most of the time when you see a clueless character in a bollywood movie you will see him getting his “Lakshya” after an incident, a song or maybe an accident but here you won’t find that. Sid is the same clueless boy in a very fast city called Mumbai.
He is not sure about his life, work, love or any anything else. He doesn’t even bother about his family but that doesn’t bring him to live a meaningless life. He has his own moments. He keeps on going with life. He doesn’t take any U-turn. He just tries to find out his own ways which ultimately he does.
Taran Adarsh gives 4 /5 rating and takes you back to a slice of your life. He says, “Recall those years when partying hard was the only agenda on your list. Recall those years when staying awake at nights, chatting away with friends became a habit. Recall those years when bunking college and sneaking into movie halls was more exciting than books. Recall those years when you were completely clueless and aimless about the vocation you wanted to pursue once you graduated... That indecisive phase when you were hesitant to take that first big step in life can never be erased from your memory.”
Truly, it represents the baffled character of a youth without much of preaching and “lok-gyan”. Apart from your thrash about a new phase of your life, it also talks about the love, which takes a slow but deep space in your heart. Here, love is not started with a proposal and it has no follow-up, rose giving and coffee shop hopping kind of stuffs. It simply emerges from the chemistry between these two people. Like the basic definition goes, it doesn’t have barriers, but it has meaning. A famous dialog from “Hum-Tum” says, “kabhi kabhi to ek mulakat hi kafi hoti hai aur kabhi kabhi mulakatein lag jati hain”. Well, there could be a combination of both of these. This movie simply reveals the secret behind that “ek mulakat” and forthcoming several “mulakatein”. There’s a connection and we all go through that connection.
Songs are the uniqueness of Hindi Cinema but at several occasions they lack the placement. WUS deals with that problem very well. Songs are well placed and well suited to the theme of this movie. All credit goes to debutante director “Ayan Mukherjee”.
After a long time {may be after Jab We Met} I saw a good bollywood movie. It has emotion. It has humor. It has chemistry. And, most important, it has SENSE.
