Wake Up Sid

I never knew I could relate to a movie so much. The two main characters in that movie meant to me a lot. They both were just the opposite, just perfect in their own worlds but ended up falling for each other. I don’t know if this was just any other love story, but somewhere it did seem like the story of our life – Kapil and Prabhjot.

I don’t know if I am writing about the protagonist of this movie or protagonist of my life – Kapil. He is just so typically Sid or rather Sid was so typically Kapil. Whatever it was, but there was a striking similarity between them. It seems like the writer just had Kapil in his mind while designing this character and he decided to change a few things to match the script.

Kapil just knows how to make people smile even the people who are so typical frowns. He just has to buy stuff in a shopping mall and a lots of it (he just doesn’t care about the money, even without a rich dad). He hates people lecturing him especially after his failures. His way of handling failures is to blame it on the entire world at least initially, but then later he does understand what he did and quietly comes and apologizes (without a sorry !!!) and showers his love in the most charming way. He loves to dance and hang out with his friends all the time. If given a choice, he would do it every evening without fail except those evenings when he is busy on his “Prince of Persia”.

Cleanliness is just not his thing, infact I wonder if that word even exists in his dictionary. But you know what, he would cook, clean and do whatever it takes if he really wants to win your heart. He has an immense respect for females, he wont think that a girl wants to sleep with him if she is ready to go around with him at the middle of night on their first meeting. In fact, such a thing won’t even occur to him. He just absolutely loves his life, knows so clearly that the only aim in life is to be happy. Since he hates people lecturing him, he doesn’t even believe in “learning from other’s experience”, he only believes in learning from his own experience and he just does that perfectly. That entitles him to a lot of "jhatkas" before learning something more about life. He would seem a little immature and irresponsible to you, but that’s just his attitude towards life, a “life is all about fun” attitude. But his first impression is generally wrong, because when he takes on responsibilities he puts in every damn effort to make it perfect and his immaturity just adds to his extremely charming personality.

Whether it is dancing on the worli-bandra sea link at 3 in the morning or if its getting drunk in some corner of the city in the middle of the night, drunk enough to drop his iPhone in water or if it’s the craziness of watching the 20-20 world cup match in PVR and being so very upset at India losing the ICC Champions Trophy or if it’s the energy to collect the most stiff and undanceable people in the college and make them perform a group dance on the stage. Anything as crazy as this has to be Kapil.. And how can I forget, he is such a perfectionist that he doesn’t even feel guilty at making his girlfriend change her clothes thrice if she has to go out with him. He wants the best in the world and he loves it when people are envious of him, whether its his phone, bike, job or his girlfriend – it has to be the best. Of course, his ways of making somebody feel so very special are so uncommon and special. Its yet another of his charms that has made me so badly fall in love with him.

Okie, so now about the second character of the movie – Aisha. She is such a simple girl who just steps in Mumbai with a thousand big dreams, innocence and a lot of determination to make her every single dream come true. She loves maturity in people, she aspires to be a mature, woman of substance – a no nonsense types, yet full of live and happiness. She doesn’t care much about the world till she keeps moving on towards her dreams and she loves writing. She doesn’t really like people who are not open to others likes/dislikes. And there she meets this guy Sid who seems to be a total opposite of what she had expected her love to be. Yet she falls for this charming young man who she still considers “a baccha”. I wonder if the writer had my thoughts while designing this character.

I am sure if someday I’ll write a script of a movie, it has to be very similar to this one. It had just my thoughts and feelings. There was so much about these characters that I loved. It is almost unbelievable.