REVIEW: Luck By Chance
Zoya Akhtar may probably be best known because of her last name. And being a daughter of the famous Javed Akhtar and sister of Farhan Akhtar is no mean task.
Not surprisingly for the longest time Zoya has been in the shadows. She's been a casting director and a writer for quite many films but never really been in the limelight as Farhan and Javed.
It's probably a little known fact that she had co-directed Shankar Mahadevan's Breathless music video with Farhan.
With her directorial debut Luck By Chance, Zoya joins the league of extraordinary filmmakers of the Akhtar family – Honey Irani is her mother and Sajid Khan and Farah Khan are her first cousins.
Quite like Farah (who made Om Shanti Om), Zoya too draws upon her insight into the Hindi film industry and gives us a gem called Luck By Chance.
You know this film is an insider's perspective into Bollywood right from frame one. Full points for the opening credits sequence, which takes you behind the arc lights and the glamour of showbiz.
It shows you the guard outside the studio gates and the chaiwallah who keeps the crew on their feet with his unending supply of tea. It also shows you the dark side of the business and yet seems to tell you that there is no business like show business.
Watching the sequence you somehow seem to realise just why Bollywood attracts thousands of aspiring boys and girls who want to make it big here.
The protagonist of this film Vikram Jaisingh (Farhan Akhtar) is no different from any other Bollywood aspirant. He has left his cushioned life in Delhi where his father has an established business and is trying hard to get the big break.
His friend and a television star Abhimanyu (Arjun Mathur) is the only other guy he knows in Mumbai other than the aunt he lives with.
Sona (Konkona Sen Sharma) is also a struggling actress who has come from a small town with dreams in her eyes. A small-time producer Chaudhry (Aly Khan) makes the most of the situation and promises her a role in his next film, in exchange for sexual favours.
It is at Abhimanyu's place that Sona and Vikram first meet and eventually fall in love.
No one will become director luck by chance.Agar luck bhi mil
gaya one has to be master in that art to survive
the film is made very badly. Its pain to sit for hours to
watch this film . The major loop hole for this film is its
screenplay
who is the protogonist????? Is it farhan aktar or konkana
sen?????? Zoya might be clear with her directors idea ????
The chracter arc is not proper chalked out.. Abrupt
screenplay. Director voice/idea is not all clear through out
the film . Zoya need to learn more from her first film.
Yar movies ki theam achi thi par direction ki kami har
firld mein dekh rahi thi. Aur background music ke bina
movies ekdum aaram se chal rahi thi. Jisse energy ki kami ho
gayi hai mivies.Wase ek bar to dakhne layak hai .......
Good movie ..For those who really want to watch a good movie
where u feel each character as a part of life may be it cud
be mostly understood better by those who really struggles in
the bollywood cinema, but one can also understand what
success takes i loved each and every scene watching it...
Saala kya movie hai bey.....Dekh le....Mast hai.....!!!
Thers no mention of juhi chawla
You can surely watch it atleast once for the message given
by the movie. The 2nd half is far better than 1st half. But
the whole story is very predictable. So, you won't find
anything new in the story. Except farhan everyone was just
okay. But good moral..
No story nothing in the movie....I was wondering why i came
to see the movie
Dekh le yaar....Its a gud movie...
The movie is okay
Good movie ,must watch it
farhan akhtar is at his best this time
and as always the dancing boy hrithik
he is ............... :-)
don't waste time and rush to cinemas.......