Wake Up Sid (2009) on Netflix
NR20092h 18mComedyDramaRomance
Sid Mehra, a wealthy Mumbai college student, coasts through his final year without ambition. At a farewell party he meets Aisha Banerjee, a writer from Kolkata chasing a job at a magazine.
- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb7.6/1037,917 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Siddharth Mehra, called Sid, drifts through his final year of college in Mumbai, indifferent to his studies despite his intelligence. His father, a wealthy businessman, offers him a Porsche if he lasts a month at the family company; Sid quits before the month is out. At his college farewell party he meets Aisha Banerjee, a writer from Kolkata who wants to make her name at Mumbai Beat magazine. She is stuck in a dreadful hostel, so Sid finds her a place to live, and he and his friends help her fix it up. A friendship grows between them. When he suggests something more, Aisha turns him down, citing his lack of ambition, and she lands a job under Kabir Chaudhary at the magazine.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wake Up Sid (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena supporters protested on 2 October to halt screenings of Wake Up Sid in Mumbai and Pune, objecting to the film's use of the word "Bombay" instead of "Mumbai".
- Ayan Mukerji's Best Debut Director award at the 55th Filmfare Awards for Wake Up Sid was a tie: he shared it with Zoya Akhtar, honoured the same night for her film Luck by Chance.
