Wake Up Sid! is about a very lazy boy, Siddharth Mehra, played by Ranbir Kapoor. He has finished college and doesn’t know what to do in life. It’s his journey about how he wakes up to love, life, friendship and family.

Speaking about his baby, Ayan says, “The truth is that this movie came to me very organically and instinctively. The point at which I set out to write and make a film, I was very clear that I wanted to make it based on what I knew and understood and the life I had seen around me. It all culminated in a feeling to write a film about a time in my life and the life of a lot of people around me when we were slightly younger and a bit lost. We didn’t know where we were going in our lives but we were so young that we didn’t care. I felt that if I could capture that time in a film, it would be a great way to remember and preserve that time in my life. After about two years of wanting to write and not doing anything, it all fell into place.”

Wake Up Sid! has been shot entirely in Mumbai and isn’t overflowing with the opulence we usually associate with KJo’s films.

“Karan was very kind and didn’t interfere that much. He made a couple of references to Wake Up Sid! being very real and not melodramatic. We don’t have big songs and sets and it doesn’t feel like a usual Dharma Production film. In fact, it is an inside joke between us that this is more of an Excel Entertainment (Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s film company) film. Despite of all that and the lack of grandeur that we normally associate with Karan’s films, at its heart, Wake Up Sid! is actually about friendship, family, love and very warm values and I think those morals are inherent in every Dharma Production film. In my heart it is a very Karan Johar film,” clarifies the young director.