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By Joginder Tuteja, October 6, 2009 - 15:16 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Shruti Haasan, Danny Denzongpa, Ravi Kissen, Chitrashi Rawat
Director: Soham Shah
Producer: Dhillin Mehta
Music: Salim-Sulaiman
Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed, Anvita Dutt Guptan
THE FILM
Doctor: "Buddy you know why you are alive even after having a bullet pierce through your heart? Bolo bolo, tell tell, socho socho! Well, that's because the place where heart ought to be, it's not there. Hell why? Because there is one such case out of a million (or was it trillion?) where the heart is on your right side instead of being left! Yoo hoo, you are blessed with, what one calls in medical terms, a mirror image body (or something)!"
Imran: Aaila, kya baat kardi boss! I didn't have any clue about this!
Shruti: (Sniff sniff) Didn't your heart ever beat for me? If that was the case, you would have known naa!
Imran: (Oops) Hey babe, don't worry, we will sing a song!
End credits roll: 'Jee Le, Jee Lee, Jee Le'
Yes, Luck is indeed 'that' kind of a film. Agreed, the commercial masala flavour of the film mandated that audiences come with complete suspension of belief. So we don't quite challenge when Imran gets a rotten lighter actually light up 5 times in a row and takes home a cool bundle of Rs. 6 lakhs. Or he robs an ATM and doesn't get caught. (Hey, whatever happened to surveillance cameras!?) Or he always finds luck on his side - the right bullet, the right key, the right parachute, the right girl etc. etc. etc.
After all he is someone who has been born with 'luck'. So much so that the word 'luck' is hammered down audiences brains close to 1278 times (or was it 2178? Well, I stopped counting after a while)!
So we have a lucky Imran, a lucky Mithun Chakravorty (because he never got hit by 'dushman ki goli'), a lucky serial killer cum rapist Ravi Kishan (who is alive because the rope through which he had to be hung till death slipped off), a lucky 14/15/16 year old girl (we never get to know her real age) Chitrashi Rawat who can make a 'langda camel' win the race and Shruti Hassan who is plain and simple lucky to play double role in her very first film. It's a different matter though that this Seeta's twin sis Geeta had
precisely 18 seconds screen time for herself!
Reading such a long description of character introductions may have made you exclaim by now - 'Hey, enough of this, can we go through the movie now?' Well, this is what happened to me as well when it was not a paragraph but an entire one hour of character introduction that happened in Soham Shah's Luck. So we see every character in the movie making an entry in slow motion, talking in slow motion, reacting in slow motion and then showcasing his/her luck in slow motion. And by the time we actually start wondering where the movie is headed, it is interval point already.
However, till this time, there is some interest sustained in the film primarily due to two reasons. First and foremost Sanjay Dutt's train sequence which makes Aamir Khan's stunt from Ghulam look so passé. And secondly the 'let's form a circle and shoot the person on our right' sequence that comes just before the interval point.
You start expecting something better in the second half but what you are offered is a quarter-baked romance (?) between Imran and Shruti and sad interludes of 'Khudaya Ve' which is absolutely unpardonable. Why just romance, even the lust quotient of Ravi Kishan too doesn't have any meat to it!
Betting by itself is lifeless as except for a dozen odd 'gora log' trapped in a studio set with a dozen odd television sets hanging around, you never once get into the milieu of the entire betting racket. Yes, we are introduced to Sanjay Dutt and his 'go find some good luck' man Danny Denzongpa being all cool and methodical and scheming but after a while, all of this too fades away.
PACKAGING
As is the tradition of DVDs coming on YRF Home Entertainment, Luck too boasts of a glossy paper and plastic packaging.
DURATION
The film's duration is 141 minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Making of the Film
Aaah, now this is what one calls as smart packaging! Just like the promos of Luck which were simply fantabulous, even the 'making of the film' segment in the DVD is done pretty well. If you haven't watched the movie already then this segment actually is enticing enough for you to go and check out the film. Reason being that it truly takes you through the making of the film and has a large part of it set behind the scenes.
Snippets from interviews of cast and crew are interspersed well with the shots from the film. Add to that the actual shooting of some cool action scenes and it is reaffirmed once again that the makers certainly knew how to present the film to the audiences. There is some trivia in the offering as well that makes this an interesting part of the DVD.
And for those who couldn't have had enough of Shruti Hassan in the film, there are two music videos thrown in the form of 'Jee Le (Duet song)' and 'Aazma Luck (Shruti)'. Good watch!
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- Subtitles in English and Arabic
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
PRICE
Rs. 199/=
CONCLUSION
Luck really-really falters! Agreed that the film was meant to be a no-brainer but at least it could have been cool. However, even that's not the case here as except for a couple of action sequences, nothing really moves in the film. Even the train climax that could well have been the film's highlight is so long drawn that it puts the Tashan climax to shame! No, Luck doesn't work. Soham Shah had all the funds and the actors and most importantly a very good and unique concept in hands. However, he lets it all slip away!
 
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