Wake Up Sid

Just watched the movie. Unlike all those who accompanied, I really liked the movie. Will rate it somewhere better than average. So lets hear first what is wrong with the movie so as to cover up the bad aspects with what I liked. It is too long. This may be because of pressures from distributor and I guess now multiplexes( need interval breaks for making popcorn money). Or the director dont know how to edit. This could have been made a smaller 1.5 hr movie which would make it small and sweet. So what is good about this? Many things . Havent seen a romantic Hindi movie with different characterizations for a long time. The background music and songs were apt and lovely. Camerawork and Set Designs were good. This is where Karan Johar excels. Though his movies sucks big time with hackeyned plot, wooden face characters and too much of emotion, he makes sure that movie is beautiful. This has also some nice shots of Mumbai and one of my favourite places Nariman Point. So in this movie, Karan Johar outsources the direction and hence story and else I guess to someone else but you can feel his presence in crafting sets and camerawork. Konkana sen is as good as expected. It is always nice to see Hindi heroines who dont have a singleton expression throughout the movie. But what really caught my eye is Ranvir Kapoor. I missed his first movie but let me make a prediction with the possibility of eating my word later, this lad is a new star on the horizon.

Good movie in all...