Wake up Sid

Wake up Sid
Direction:Ayan Mukherjee
Rating:***
Jo barse sapne boode boode
naino ko moode moode
kaise me chalu
dekna na saku
anjane rastein…
Finally I did watch Ranbir and Konkona. I would love to write about it but at the moment it’s 12:55 a.m, my back is aching, my eyes are sore and I lost a edited version of a file I have been working for the past three hours.Somebody help me!

Yupiee I did find it. I am tired and all I can remember is Ranbir kapoor.I am too tired to write. I will tomorrow. For now, good nite

Now, I am back. Well, this is not a conventional review and it’s more about me and less about the movie.More than six months ago I remember going to a site and reading about a new movie starring Konkona and Ranbir. I did comment and even left my e-mail address.

Well, ‘wake up Sid’ was released around dasain. I planned to watch the first show of the first day.I didn’t and after weeks of delay it was ‘I’ who finally agreed to come with me.Well, in fact I made her lie and take a leave from the office.The lie for me was worth it.I doubt if she enjoyed the movie and her part was only paying for that terrible coffee. I always find it terrible-even five cubes of sugar does not work for me, she enjoys it with two cubes.

What can I say? The movie was terrible. Not exactly I would watch it over and over. Why would I do that? I have a tendency of self inflicting pain.’That’ week I watched this series of bad movies and made myself sick. The only consolation was and is I knew/know how terrible they were/are.

I am a Ranbir Kapoor fan. It’s easy to be a fan. I am on the safe side but I am also like everyone else. I would not like to characterize myself as a ‘aficionado’ among the fan category. How can I? I don’t even know what I am , what I am doing and what little I am doing will make things fine.

Six months ago I finally realized where I stood among films-nowhere. I had and have so little knowledge about films and I found out how stupid I was to review every crappy Hindi movie. I knew why I did it? just to get a few more eyeballs. Even if I wrote a very good post,without the mention of a film no one ever viewed or views it. But was it worth it? Is it worth it?pretending to be an expert when I am nowhere close.It’s not as if I am happy in this state. I took bloody many pains to change it. It didn’t work out.Above all I am the stupidest person I know.It’s all gone and I can’t make the mistake of remembering any part of it any more.

Why am I blabbering about all this? The movie made it all come back. I am not so bad after all. I know many people who are worse than me and still get to review films. I am not jealous or complaining. This is how life works. Wake up Sid has an obvious plot and still it works in many ways. It’s a clever way to make money-gather in all the cliches and bring in two most successful actors in the industry to play the lead roles. The film is an illusion, Ranbir Kappor is an illusion and life is an illusion. I am damn sick of escapism.

No one ever meets their soul mate on their graduating night? You don’t have a simple cannon camera, take a few clicks and by night your photographs make it to the front cover of a prestigious magazine? what’s with this independent crap? Hell with all this. I feel so cynical and pessimistic.

What can I do? At least I have a blog where I can vent out everything. Lastly my phone seldom gets any call. This saturday morn it keeps ringing. It’s a new number. I pick it up and then she starts “Arrreee hamara Cd kidhar he ree….woh video huwa…kab ayegi re tu….” All I can say is “ho chuka …haha..kal aungi..”

P.S: I must admit I have hand fetish. Turns out, I also have foot fetish and I keep remembering Ranbirs feet.Too bad… I also have this thing with Jazz and old Hindi film songs.It keeps getting worse…