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| Movie: | Luck |
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Sanjay Dutt, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Imran Khan, Ravi Kishan, Shruti K. Haasan, Rati Agnihotri, Chitrashi Rawat, Snita Mahey |
| Director: | Soham Shah |
| Music Director: | Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant |
| Lyricist: | Shabbir Ahmed, Anvita Dutt Guptan |
| Cinematography: | Santosh Thundiyil |
| Action: | Allan Amin |
| Art: | Narendra Bhagat |
| Screenplay: | Soham Shah,Renzil D'Silva |
| Sound: | Hari Dwarak |
| Story / Writer | Soham Shah |
| Producer: | Dhillin Mehta |
| Banner: | Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, Studio 18 |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Our Ratings | 3 out of 5 |
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Movie Review
(Posted on: July 13, 2009)
An out and out thriller, Luck manages to skip your heartbeat innumerable times. Its high on style and is packed with an impressive yet unconventional characterization. A story about subverted yet perverse machoism. What keeps you at the edge of your seats are the spine chilling action sequences. The opening blindfolded action sequence by Sanjay Dutt is the show stopper, followed by other death defying sequences. All kudos to Allan Amin for that. The dialogues by Soham Shah, are subtle and stylish.
From the coarse locations to the swanky locales, Luck has been extensively shot in Cape Town. Watching Luck is a similar experience as watching a video game, which has captivating and thrilling background score by Amar Mohile and the uber cool cinematography of Santosh Thundiyil.
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 The only one thing which plays a spoilsport is the loose plot. Despite the background narration of every character, the protagonists fail to strike a chord with the audiences. They emerge as the desperate characters who use their lucks as a tool to earn moolah(money) and try to overcome the financial miseries in their lives. The plot is paperthin, where the people from different parts of the world with tremendous luck, are accommodated to emerge as the winners out of performing dangerous stunts, where the penalty of losing is death. And, as it may sound obvious that the winner will take home all the loot.
Hardly any emotions erupts for Imraan who from a mama's boy transforms himself to a pro in the death defying game. Not even for Mithun Chakraborty who eagerly wants money for his dying wife, or even for Chitrashi Rawat, who plays a 15 years old, sold to an Arab and wants to buy a Lexus of her own.
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Ravi Kissen, who escapes from the hangman's noose, for murdering nine girls who rejected his proposal ring, brings the humor quotient in the movie. He delivers the most wackiest of lines and justifies his role as a serial ring killer. But, yet again he too fails to create an impact.
For Shruti Hassan, luck is a dumb debut. She has very little screen presence , where she is hardly seen performing stunts and is rather ignoring the bad guy Ravi Kissan. With an amazing and arresting screen presence, the beautiful lady deserved a better debut
Who steals the show, is Sanjay Dutt, with his macho and cold hearted kingpin of gambling industry. He very convincingly fits the character of a bigshot, who wants to take the betting industry to a level, where no one could have imagined. Danny Denzongpa, as Sanjay Dutt's right hand, in selecting the “lucky” people from different parts of the world, after a long sabbatical, makes an impressive comeback.
At times, too much of action sequences clinches the thrill out the thriller, with the dialogues, which went a little overboard on defining luck in different ways. Moreover, the chemistry between the fresh on screen jodi, Imraan and Shruti, was thanda thanda. This might limit their chances of emerging as the new Bollywood jodi.
But apart from all these, Shah has convincingly portrayed money as the motivating mantra in modern times, where people can go to any extend to earn money via short cut. And not to forget the adrenaline thumping sequences.
Watch out for such sequences portraying the protagonists' desperation to win, followed by which they can jump from the plane with parachutes that may or may not open, or escaping from sharks, or pulling the trigger on each other with guns that may or may not be loaded. Such sequences do make Luck worth watching.
Way to go.. Good luck, Luck!
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