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Purely Joyful Movie!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

A story of a talented, hardworking yet smart guy named Vikram(Farhan Akhtar) who comes to Mumbai and dreams of making big in B-town, where Vikram has to struggle a lot as he comes to terms among harsh realities where people treat strugglers & newcomers as minnows and somehow Vikram fits himself and adjusts well with his sweet and charming ways that might not be pleasing but still you feel sympathetic for him. I will like to praise FARHAN AKHTAR for carrying this role with such ease bcoz its not easy to get audiences on your side while you are playing a negative character. The story reveals plots that goes in the making of a Hindi flick like Hollywood inspiring stuff, hard work and abuses that assistants generally go through, starry tantrums, how people of film industry try to get their friends and relatives involved in B-town ignoring new talent to maximum limit and how shitty stuff comes along the way while a commercial project is down the line. Hrithik is fantastic in supporting cast as he plays a big-star who somehow betrays a filmmaker(Rishi Kapoor), who is responsible for Hrithik's starry status and Rishi Kapoor gives one of the revolutionary performance of his career that never got the kind of attention that it deserved as he carries various emotional, formal and professional moments with greats expressions and confidence. By the way, don't miss the guest appearances of many big stars in the movie and Shahrukh Khan giving a memorable Quote that I believe is the one of the best scene that Srk has ever shot. Other Great moments of the movie include the love debutant Director Zoya Akhtar has for bollywood, what kind of insensitive moral values the stars generally have, more importantly how the Luck factor that comes from nowhere in between…MY RATING: 8/10

A satire about Bollywood, and the struggle that young talent has in a nepotistic world, certainly sounds intriguing. But when the talent is mainly defined by beauty and ambition, it's hard to feel too sympathetic, particularly over the full course of what is a decidedly long film. In fact, satire is too strong a word here: although the inanity of Bollywood plots are gently ridiculed, the movie includes some song and dance sequences of its own (disguised as belonging to films within the film); and the eventual ending celebrates a character who fails to become a star, but nonetheless enjoys success as a leading television actress. Fundamentally, this not a story about real failure at any level, not one character is poor and not one young character is ugly, or indeed, even ordinary looking. A harsher, funnier tale might have been told.

If not for anything Zoya Akhtar should be given due credit for managing an ensemble of the entire Bollywood by dragging them under one roof. And also presenting a sneak-peak behind the fame/shame/defame iron-wall industry. Research analyst of the industry would instantly identify the characters and the situations. "Luck By Chance" is an honest opinion about the industry ensuring it doesn't hurt or jibes anyone in particular. It marginally escapes being categorised as a documentary in my opinion. And the writing on the wall is clear - talent alone is not sufficient to gain foothold and climb the ladder in Bollywood. One requires the go-getter attitude coupled with being street-smart - "spark" as it was conveyed.Ф Farhan Akhtar:: Quite consistent in his delivery. Very matured and deserves applause to stand up to Konkana, if you know what I mean.Ф Konkana:: Had a couple of layers to her character and she effectively manages to bring them out at ease.Ф Isha:: I had my brain scratching wondering who this bimbo was. Yes Isha Sharvani is indeed talented and going un-noticed by the industry. Sad!Everyone else even if they are cameo's, were spot-on.Not the usual pot-boiler Bollywood "masala" movie - but hatke it its own right.

"Luck By Chance" has most of the hallmarks of a typical Bollywood production: shimmering visuals, eye-popping colors and costumes, and gorgeous young performers all placed in the service of a slick-fiction melodrama, punctuated by elaborately choreographed song-and-dance numbers that play like glittery shampoo commercials on steroids. The difference here is that since it is Bollywood itself that is the subject of the film, writer/director Zoya Akhtar gets to indulge in some mild self-criticism aimed at a few of the weaknesses inherent in the industry. For instance, the movie questions why nepotism seemingly plays so large a role in the hiring of actors and actresses, an inside-joke, one assumes, since Akhtar chose her own brother, Farhan, to play the lead character in this film. It also makes fun of the fact that no self-respecting mainstream Indian film would be caught dead without at least a half a dozen musical sequences, even though they are rarely germane to the plot or integral to the theme. That doesn't, however, keep the makers of "Luck By Chance" from fulfilling their mandated quota of said sequences. Apparently, iconoclasm will take one only so far when there are box office receipts at stake."Luck By Chance" tells of an aspiring young actor named Vikram (Akhtar) who lands the lead role in what is described to us as "a big-budget thriller/musical love story." His sudden success becomes a cause of dissension between him and his girlfriend, Sona (Konkona Sen Sharma), since she is herself a struggling actress and has been unable to pick up more than mere bit parts in unimpressive films up to this point. She also becomes jealous of Vikram's co-star, the lovely Nikki Walia (Isha Sarvani), whose over-controlling mother (Dimple Kapadia) was a famous movie actress herself in the 1970s.In terms of dramaturgy and audience attention-spans, the story could definitely use some tightening, but it does capture some of the frustration, heartbreak and disappointment of trying to make it in the "biz." It also points out the capricious nature of filmdom success, making the case that it is often nothing more than sheer luck - of being at the right place at the right time or of having that indefinable "something" that sets one apart from all others - that ultimately determines who will make it as a star and who will not.The romantic scenes are nicely played by Akhtar and Sharma, but there's no getting around the fact that the movie itself runs on for such an unconscionable length of time (over two-and-a-half-hours) that audiences (Western audiences, at least) are bound to lose interest in the story quite a ways prior to its actual completion. That's a shame because there's much that is likable and charming about "Luck By Chance."