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Starring:
Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple
Kapadia, Isha Sharvani, Sanjay Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
Director: Zoya Akhtar
A starlet
and a struggler meet while trying to navigate through
the Hindi Film Industry - the Bollywood as most refer
to, and end up changing each other's lives forever. Luck
by Chance is a slice of film industry life, in which
self advancement is the sole motivator. Here, notions of
superstition, fate and destiny may underline every
decision but it is the gigantic egos, the grand desires
and the small opportunities that converge to form
strange patterns.
Patterns that we call kismet.
In such an unpredictable climate, is success and failure
what other's define for you or is it something you
decide for yourself?
Vikram Jaisingh is a sincere young Delhiite whose dream
is to make it to the big screen in Bollywood. He finds a
companion in Sona Sharma (Konkona Sen Sharma), who plays
brief and meaningless roles in 'B' grade films while
making compromises to even make it get insignificant
films.
The actors are perfectly cast in their characters. Like
Rishi Kapoor as a Bollywood producer, Isha Sharvani as a
star kid who is carefully being groomed by Dimple
Kapadia her diva mummy. A somewhat typical bollywood
film maker Sanjay Kapoor who looks towards the west for
inspiration. And we have Farhan Akhtar and Konkona Sen
Sharma as newcomers in Bollywood, who aspire to be
successful at any cost.
Bollywood
stars including Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani
Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Ranbir
Kapoor make cameo appearances as themselves.
Cast:
Vikram Jaisingh - Farhan Akhtar
Sona Mishra - Konkona SenSharma
Rommy Rolly - Rishi Kapoor
Neena Walia - Dimple Kapadia
Nikki Walia - Isha Sharvani
Ranjit Rolly - Sanjay Kapoor
Minty Rolly - Juhi Chawla
Zaffar Khan - Hrithik Roshan (Special appearance)
Alyy Khan
Boman Irani
Anurag Kashyap
Saurabh Shukla
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The superstar Zaffar Khan (played by Hrithik Roshan) is
tired of being typecast repeatedly playing the filmy
hero for the same producer, Romy Rolly (Rishi Kapoor).
He simply wants a break and with this apparent
unwillingness to work with Rolly the struggler Vikram
Jaising gets lucky by chance as the replacement. From
here on begins the takeoff on insecurity and hypocrisy
of stars and starlets of the bollywood film industry.
During the outdoor shootings, Vikram gets casually (and
calculatively) closer to Niki Walia (Isha Sherwani), the
gorgeous daughter of the glamour queen of yester-years
Neena Walia (Dimple Kapadia). There are calculations,
manipulations, failing relationships and maneuvers here
on.
It is Vikram (Farhan) who finally manipulates and lucks
his way into a breakthrough, whose understated performance
holds together this far-ranging, cameo-filled film. His
character’s sincerity and innocence manages to remain
sympathetic even after ditching his girlfriend to achieve
stardom at any cost.
Luck by
Chance is an appealing tale of two would-be actors
looking for movie stardom. Both Farhan and Konkona are
complete real characters before the camera. Rishi Kapoor
and Dimple Kapadia have some nice moments, while it is
nice to see Sanjay Kapoor back on screen. The appealing
Isha Sharvani is okay in her character.
The film is
an insider look at the Bollywood film industry, with a
range of issues like casting couch, movie production
business, actors’ images and showbiz politics. What
appeals is the impressive debut of Javed Akhtar’s
dauther Zoya Akhtar’s direction.
- Shaami
M. Irfan
Credits &
Crew:
Producers - Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar
Writer & Director - Zoya Akhtar
Dialogues - Javed Akhtar
Lyrics - Javed Akhtar
Music - Shankar, Eshaan & Loy
Director of Photography - Carlos Catalan
Executive Producer - Miriam Joseph
Casting - Nandini Shrikent
Costumes - Arjun Bhasin & Aparna Chandra
Production Design - Anuradha Parikh
Sound Design - Baylon Fonseca
Editor - Anand Subaya
Production Assistant - Dhananjay Kulkarni
Choreographer - Vaibhavi Merchant
Art Direction - Abid T.P.
Sets Decoration - Sonal Choudhary, Anisha Gulati
Costume Design - Arjun Bhasin, Aparna Chandra
Assistant Director - Devrath Sagar
Playback Singers - Ila Arun, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shankar
Mahadevan, Babu Khan, Manzoor Khan, Mumay Khan, Rajab
Khan, Mahalakshmi, Loy Mendonsa, Amit Paul
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