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Luck By Chance - Movie Review
Here’s a one-of-its-kind film that takes you into the underbelly of Bollywood - into the world of dreamy-eyed strugglers, pampered starlets, superstitious producers, Hollywood aping directors, and the sensation seeking media. With slice-of-life peeks into these lives, the movie tells a heart-winning but a tad too long tale of love, luck, loss, destiny, dreams and will power. In a nutshell, Luck By Chance is a nice, touching story studded with a galaxy of stars!
CNN-IBN: Luck By Chance is an insider look at Bollywood, and about making it in the big, bad world of showbiz. And indeed it’s a bad world. A world where friends are used and abused, where lovers are replaced overnight
, where mothers manipulate their daughters, and where you’re only as important as your last hit. Luck By Chance is both insightful and funny. The film serves up a palette of colorful characters who may seem like caricatures on the outside, but come packed with emotional depth. A significant debut by director Zoya Akhtar, Luck By Chance is heartwarming and heart-breaking in equal measures; look closely at those layers beneath the laughs. An impressive achievement both in writing and direction, the film is full of witty moments and sharp observations that stay with you.
DNA India: Luck By Chance starts off with a bang. The title sequence, showing the inner workings of the film industry from the eyes of those who toil behind-the-scenes - the dress men, light men, spot boys, caterers etc - sets the mood right away. The initial scenes that follow are outstanding. Very soon you find yourself well settled in the entire milieu of what’s called the Hindi Film Industry. Watch it for some really funny sequences and the enigma called Rishi Kapoor!
Glamsham: In a subtle way, Zoya (the director) explores the dark side of film-making; of aspiring starlets, wannabe actors, struggling script-writers, star tantrums, harried producers, failed actors turned directors [all because they have a family business in Bollywood], scheming mothers, and the ever so omnipresent directors and producers waiting to exploit that girl who is desperate for a break in films. In a nutshell, this film is a docu-drama on the film industry and though the attempt is sincere, it falls flat in places. It’s touching at times and at times, a spoof. It drags, as well as amuses. Commercially, this film will find it tough to break the box office
shackles. If you view it as an Art film, you won’t be disappointed.
Hindustan Times: After Rock On!!, Farhan Akhtar is an actor you look forward to. And he’s unpretentious and a lovable natural once again. Konkona Sen-Sharma is amazingly flawless. She even carries off a last, very long shot – obviously inspired by George Clooney in Michael Clayton - perfectly. For the entire acting crew, the page-turner script and the sparklingly perceptive direction by Zoya Akhtar, here’s your one big lucky ticket. Beg, borrow or steal!a
Source : bollywoodbuzz.in
CNN-IBN: Luck By Chance is an insider look at Bollywood, and about making it in the big, bad world of showbiz. And indeed it’s a bad world. A world where friends are used and abused, where lovers are replaced overnight
, where mothers manipulate their daughters, and where you’re only as important as your last hit. Luck By Chance is both insightful and funny. The film serves up a palette of colorful characters who may seem like caricatures on the outside, but come packed with emotional depth. A significant debut by director Zoya Akhtar, Luck By Chance is heartwarming and heart-breaking in equal measures; look closely at those layers beneath the laughs. An impressive achievement both in writing and direction, the film is full of witty moments and sharp observations that stay with you.
DNA India: Luck By Chance starts off with a bang. The title sequence, showing the inner workings of the film industry from the eyes of those who toil behind-the-scenes - the dress men, light men, spot boys, caterers etc - sets the mood right away. The initial scenes that follow are outstanding. Very soon you find yourself well settled in the entire milieu of what’s called the Hindi Film Industry. Watch it for some really funny sequences and the enigma called Rishi Kapoor!
Glamsham: In a subtle way, Zoya (the director) explores the dark side of film-making; of aspiring starlets, wannabe actors, struggling script-writers, star tantrums, harried producers, failed actors turned directors [all because they have a family business in Bollywood], scheming mothers, and the ever so omnipresent directors and producers waiting to exploit that girl who is desperate for a break in films. In a nutshell, this film is a docu-drama on the film industry and though the attempt is sincere, it falls flat in places. It’s touching at times and at times, a spoof. It drags, as well as amuses. Commercially, this film will find it tough to break the box office
shackles. If you view it as an Art film, you won’t be disappointed.
Hindustan Times: After Rock On!!, Farhan Akhtar is an actor you look forward to. And he’s unpretentious and a lovable natural once again. Konkona Sen-Sharma is amazingly flawless. She even carries off a last, very long shot – obviously inspired by George Clooney in Michael Clayton - perfectly. For the entire acting crew, the page-turner script and the sparklingly perceptive direction by Zoya Akhtar, here’s your one big lucky ticket. Beg, borrow or steal!a
Source : bollywoodbuzz.in
Movie Review: Dev D
Movie Review: Dev D; Star Cast: Abhay Deol, Mahi Gill and introducing Kalki Koechlin; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Rating: ** - One Big Emotional Athyachar.
Dev (Abhay Deol) is the son of a rich industrialist. He is packed off to London by his strict father who senses his growing fondness with Paro (Mahi), a girl from a less affluent family than theirs. When Dev comes back from London now as a grown up youth, his love for his childhood sweetheart is in fact much multiplied. But he is not allowed to marry her because of differences in cast and status. While Dev is sent to Delhi, Paro is married off to a rich but aged widower who has kids. Not one to take on responsibilities for his acts Dev digs deep into drugs and alcohol for salvation. He stays away from home but his finances still come from a doting father.
An escapist instinct and a massive ego leads him into an aimless search for lost love that pushes him further into an abyss of darkness and hopelessness soaked in self pity. During these times he meets a prostitute Chanda (Kalki). What follows next in Dev’s journey towards self destruction forms the rest of the plot!
Aiming it to be a modern day version of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novel Devdas Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D has ended up being not everyone’s cup of entertainment. With many things more appalling than appealing, Dev D may evoke irritation and bad reaction from fans of the earlier versions and the novel. Though Kashyap gets it right by making his three principal characters (of Dev, Paro and Chanda) stronger and belonging to today’s generation, the overuse of abusive language, drugs, alcohol and sex makes him somewhere lose the point he is trying to convey. It goes onto become much darker than it should have been. Kashyap has tried to play around with his narrative style by incorporating 18 songs (some very short). But some coming one after another in succession make you really bored. He drops certain subtle laugh out moments visually and through the dialogue but they are not sufficient to keep engaged. Also, the over two and a half hour running time feels far too long than it actually should. The abrupt end may leave many perplexed.
The film somehow is salvaged to a large extent by the two leading ladies Mahi Gill and Kalki. Mahi not only looks gorgeous but is an extremely natural bringing out her rawness of her character amazingly well. Kalki is a find. She brilliantly brings out the duality of her character - her childlike innocence and her no regrets attitude about the way she lives her life. Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Chunni the brash and loud pimp succeeds is bringing out a few laughs.
Amit Trivedi’s music is good at places with Emotional Atyaachaar being already a hit. Amongst the many songs, the rock version of Emotional Atyaachaar has been superbly picturised. The camerawork by Rajiv Ravi is absolutely top class, especially when it captures the neon lit by lanes of Delhi’s Paharganj. The sound design too is good.
All in all, Dev D is one big emotional attyaachaar for all those seeking those two hours of entertainment. Those expecting lovey dovey moments please stay away. This one is only for those who wanna experience something really crazy.
Source : realbollywood.com
Source : realbollywood.com
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