Wake up and ??

Life's been busy and I've been bitchy. I've spent almost a month now bitching about this or that. But enough is enough! No more bitching! Well...maybe just one more time. Maybe I will be a movie critic yet i.e. criticize one to the best of my abilities. So here goes...

So what happens is - I get one day free after a gruelling fortnight and I am wondering what I may do with this great boon God decided to bestow upon this humble (lol) being when I realise Diwali is here and I have no lights! So I buy some and some diyas and a kandil and I also hook them up. Quick job! Good job! They look great.(see the humble part, don't you?) Will post photos as soon as I can find that damned appendage that connects my phone to the computer. Now that's done, so what to do next? Relax and enjoy God's gift? No! I decide on a movie. Against my wife's best intuitions I decide on it! Wake Up Sid! Rave reviews, a thousand friends' recommendations. Lets go I say!

And at the end of it all it was 'wake up jester'? I mean why was that movie made? To preach from a high pedestal? But preach what? The acting was good, the movie was shot classily and all that but what was it all about. And why the rave reviews? Because Bombay, oops Mumbai rules the nation? Because it touched the chords of some of Mumbai's aam janta? Or just because it reminded people of their own need to wake up after college. Maybe that but the movie was alarmingly impotent.

Things happen too easily and too quickly(i mean the movie is slow paced at best but in the characters' life...). Has the director ever looked for a flat in Mumbai? And then decked it up designer style and looked at the bill? And did he find a job and make his bones that quick? (I guess yes!)

So maybe the protagonists are super talented and all but its still a little hard to swallow all the sleeping and then waking up and then the maturity and immaturity and jazzy referential frames. Really there wasn't much that made me feel I wanted to continue watching the movie (maybe the hope that the protagonists would not predictably fall for each other). Kashmira Shah's eggs did hold my attention for a while but that was that. Anupam Kher had one good scene when he kicks his son out (maybe he should have done that like 10 yrs ago instead).

And then they went and did it! Why did they go and fall in love? Because the child in them was still alive and willing to get wet in a jiffy? Dunno! Don't want to know either. Maybe I have lost my abilities to feel and maybe it was indeed a great movie but I certainly didn't enjoy it, least of all my wife's 'I told you so' look at the end. So I wonder what you guys would say if I said that 'Wanted' was a much better movie. Atleast the man was a man. All macho (pronounce makkho) and chauvinistic like all good men (at least A Few Good Men) should be. So what do I say except that movie critique is not my genre and I stick to that statement.

But 'Wake Up Sid' did have me thinking as to what Sid eventually woke up from and what he did wake up into!