Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma
Director : Ayan Mukerji
Running Time : 2 Hours 20 minutes
Rating : 2 out of 4
Release Date : 2 October, 2009

Life during college is awesome, without a doubt. However, like all good things, college life will come to an end, and all of use decide its time to trade in our jeans for cotton trousers and move on with the post-college life filled with equal measures of joy and sorrow. However, there is a minority among us, which find it very difficult to make this transition. This is story of one such guy, Sid (Ranbir Kapoor).

While in college, Sid reads Superman, plays F.E.A.R on his X-Box and renames himself Sid Simpson. He also has a bunch of friends with whom he hangs out and has lots of fun. That is until, his exams show up, which he writes (or not writes anything) and fails. Instead of blaming himself, Sid decides to blame everyone else. He distances himself from pretty much everyone. His close friends, Mom, Dad and may be even from himself. Things reach a climax and he decides to leave home. But where does he go?

The very second he leaves the door of his home, is when the real movie starts. It takes Sid, less than a couple of days to realize he is a big zero without his Dad. Whatever he was because of his Dad, and he himself on his own is a big Zero. The moment he realizes this, he decides to change things and over time he finally manages to get things done and they live happy live ever after.

There are a lots of things to like here. Sid, as a character is pretty much everywhere. You or one of your friends might be like this. Just sleeping there waiting for some one to wake them up. The setting makes a lot of sense too. The transformation also happens in a very realistic way.

I have two complaints about the whole movie though. Which sadly makes this movie very boring. The opening (overhead) shot of Sid shows him pushing aside comics, gaming DVDs and other ‘child’ stuff to make room for his math book (for the exam, the next morning). This pretty much establishes his character. Yet, the director spends the next 60 minutes re-establishing the same character multiple times, almost like re-inventing the wheel. Which means you spend the entire first half, waiting for the real deal (Sid leaving house) to happen. Of course, this is a Bollywood movie, so you got to have lot of padding. Yet the concepts presenting in the movie completely seem to be against Bollywood convention. A guy and girl living together. People taking their own path. Hot aunty. My guess is, the director wanted to have a 1 hour 30 minute slick movie, but his producers force him to pad it with really not needed songs and dramatic scenes.

The second thing to crib about is Aisha (Konkona Sen Sharma). She wants to have her own house, her own job and be a independent, confident woman. However she keeps repeating to every body in the movie that she and Sid are just friends and don’t ‘do’ anything. ‘do’ means sex. Now here is my question. She is the 21st century face of Indian Woman in every way, but has 19th century thoughts when it comes to sex? Seriously, we have got to stop thinking this way!