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‘Facebook’ generation flick

Title: Wake up Sid

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma

Direction: Ayan Mukerji

Debutant Ayan Mukerji draws inspiration from the characters of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ to create Sid (Ranbir Kapoor), the boy, who is refusing to grow into a man and is suitably smug about it. Ayan follows all the predictable plots of ‘coming of age’ movies. A directionless boy, who refuses to see the road ahead until his super rich father cuts the flow of money However, Ayan with cameraman Anil Mehta has managed to give the film a look and feel that is ve ry today. The Facebook generation will find its reflection in Sid and his world.

Ranbir Kapoor has taken to Sid as a fish takes to water. Ayan has crafted Sid with a whole range of emotions – from cheesy to vulnerable – and Ranbir has played all of them with remarkable ease. Always in the character, he never attempts to be a hero. Perhaps he knows camera is his good friend! Giving him able company is Konkona Sen Sharma as Aisha, the ambitious writer in the making, who finds Sid too boyish to be her man. She is aiming for the attention of her boss (Rahul Khanna). Again watching Aisha, you feel Konkona has done it before in films like ‘Laga Chunari Mein Daag’. The two share an endearing bonhomie.

Alas! Ayan has not given them enough wit in the lines. Supriya Pathak is winsome as the mother trying to keep pace with a generation, which sometimes measures people who introduced it to the world by the way they walk and talk. The screenplay drags in the middle overs, but after the break, it picks pace .Watch it for the coming of age of a wannabe star!

ANUJ KUMAR

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