I you are die hard admirers of William Shakespeare and trust his lines
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances….”.Then LUCK BY CHANCE is undoubtedly a movie you should look for here the stage being the Bollywood.
Yes LUCK BY CHANCE is a movie which twitters deeply into Bollywood and showcases the life of those who sometimes devote their life for a movie, but in the end, leave their fate to be decided in the outcome of 3 hours.
The film is about an aspirant Farhan Akhtar who comes from his hometown with a yearning to be an actor in Bollywood, and as the title suggests the luck smiles on him and eventually he lands up in a movie under a big banner.
This all happens to him with the help of another aspirant Konkana sen, beleaguered to be an actress, but dejectedly finds herself type casted in Bhojpuri films and sister type roles.
The movie then shows usual tussles and the monotonous melodrama about the struggler turned star and her struggling companion, distant from the end as the movie ends in a very non Bollywood fashion.
The movie is very well boxed up and full marks to Joya for delivering the real essence of bollywood and the way she handles the galaxy of stars in the movie with candid perfection.
The film has some high-quality scenes which deracinate the buried truth and de- mask the image of divas or stars which we enclose.
Like the scene in which Hrithik who plays Zafar khan who gives a sweetening repudiation for a role in the movie of his godfather or the one in which Dimple outbursts her fury on the magazine editor or the so called personal nail assistant she had.
To a certain degree movie has sharpening contrast to Madhur Bhandarkar movies with my difference being that everybody other than the protagonists is not a devil at this juncture.
LUCK BY CHANCE is undoubtedly a good film but not a great entertainer. The movie has its own patience testing times.
The film has a star studded starcast.
With LUCK BY CHANCE ,Farhan after "Rock On" soars far ahead concreting firmly his stand in bollywood.
Konkana sen once again delivers benchmark performance and adds another feather to her cap.
Juhi chawala is wasted as the spouse of Rishi kapoor who plays the character of a filthy superistious producer which puzzled me fully whether he entertained me or annoyed me.
Dimple kapadia as mother of Isha Sharavani gives a fine performance and gives life to the character she plays.
Isha Sharavani ,Sanjay Kapoor give fine performance in the little cameos they play.
The fact which cant be discounted is the poor show by Javed Akhtar ,his dailogues
lacked the shine ,completely disregarding 2 things ,first that they come from
one of the preeminent writers of all times and second by a father whose son is a protagonist in the movie and daughter who is the protagonist behind the movie.
In the end LUCK BY CHANCE is worthy of 3 stars and a good movie rating, the supplementary star I bestow to Joya who commands her ingress with a bang in the busy traffic of budding directors.
