Ayan
Mukerji's
film
has
been
flashed
in
the
first
blurbs
as
the
story
of
a
younger
handsome
man
and
an
older
not-so-good-looking
woman.
Ayan
is
appalled.
And
not
only
because
his
leading
lady
Konkona
has
not
taken
kindly
to
this
description
at
all.
"I
don't
know
where
that
came
from.
All
I
can
tell
you
is
that
this
marketing
pitch
didn't
come
from
me
or
Karan.
You
think
I'd
dare
to
call
my
heroine
who
I
think
is
awesome,
not
good-looking?," Ayan
asks
angrily.
And
then
without
waiting
for
a
reply
continues,
"It
came
from
a
Facebook
Wake
Up
Sid
fan
club
started
on
the
website.
Someone
just
saw
Ranbir
and
Konkona
together
and
decided
to
draw
their
own
conclusions
on
their
physicality.
To
me,
Konkona
is
at
the
moment
the
most
gorgeous
woman
I've
met.
In
fact
my
last
shot
was
with
her,
and
I
just
couldn't
stop
gawking."
So
is
Wake
Up
Sid
about
an
older
woman
in
love
with
a
younger
man?
Ayan
hems
and
haws
and
then
relents.
"Yes,
Konkona's
character
Aisha
is
a
few
years
older
than
the
guy.
But
it's
not
Summer
Of
42,
please!
Nor
is
the
age-difference
concealed
here
as
it
was
between
Ranbir
and
Bipasha
in
Bachna
Ae
Haseeno.
What
happened
was
we
wrote
in
the
age
difference
because
I
wanted
only
these
two
to
be
in
my
film.
When
I
saw
Ranbir
in
Saawariya,
I
knew
this
was
my
Sid.
He
was
young
energetic
and
hungry
to
seize
life.
He
was
like
me.
You've
to
admit
Ranbir
and
Konkona
together
are
a
pair
that
no
one
would
imagine.
I
liked
that
challenge.
And
I
also
saw
Konkona
was
around
in
the
industry
longer
than
Ranbir.
So,
I
conveniently
turned
the
character
into
a
slightly
older
woman."
Clever,
you
tell
Ayan.
So
doesn't
he
plan
to
work
with
his
fabulous
cousin
Kajol?
Sighs
Ayan,
"The
thought
didn't
strike
me
for
my
first
film.
I
wrote
Wake
Up,
Sid
as
this
young
new-age
Dil
Chahta
Hai.
It's
about
today's
youngsters.
Kajol?
Yeah.
Maybe
in
my
next
film…if
I'm
allowed
to
make
another
film."
At
the
moment
Ayan
is
worried
about
how
the
audience
would
take
up
to
the
title.
"But
it
had
to
be
Wake
Up,
Sid.
It's
a
wakeup
call
for
this
rather
laidback
hero
who
meets
an
unusual
woman.
It's
a
real
film
with
no
lip-sync
songs.
You
think
audiences
in
Patna
would
like
it?"
On
the
night
of
completion
Ayan
got
dead
drunk.
"I
was
very
sad
that
it
had
ended.
Now
everyone
will
move
away.
It's
a
heartbreaking
process.
I
don't
know
how
Karan
goes
through
it
over
and
over
again."
Story first published: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 15:49 [IST]