Luck By Chance Review

Cast:
Farhan Akhtar...Vikram Jaisingh
Konkona Sen Sharma...Sona Mishra
Hrithik Roshan...Zaffar Khan
Rishi Kapoor...Romy Rolly

Summary:
Farhan Akhtar plays the typical struggling young actor, Vikram Jaisingh, who has moved to Mumbai from Delhi with high dreams of becoming a megastar. He meets another struggling heroine, Sona, and they fall in love and have a relationship. Suddenly their world is flipped upside down when Vikram gets the role of a hero in a major production with a famous debutant actress. He replaced Zaffar Khan in the role. Next thing you know, Vikram and the young actress are having an affair on the sets of their film, and word gets around. Sona comes to visit their filming location, and realizes that the rumors are very true of the affair. She is devastated, be determined not to go back to Vikram. The film becomes an instant success and Vikram rises to stardom and soon forgets the young actress and everyone who has helped him, getting carried away with his stardom.

Review:
I was really hoping for more from this film because I think it had a lot of potential to be a great film. I really wish it had some more bollywood masala in it, there were hardly any songs and I feel that the drama level could have gone way up. I think this movie could have been way longer and been really much better if they expanded on the story. I felt that everything was kind of rushed and not really delved into. Sure we got the idea of everything, but we should have seen Vikrams life slowly destroy itself while he sold it for the price of fame, not just that he was on a billboard and that Sona was pleased with being a B-grade actress. NOBODY WANTS THAT, don't say they are content when they are not. Anyways that kind of bothered me, but over all it was a really fun film to watch because of ALL THE STAR CAMEOS :) With the heart-throbbing Hrithik being a superstar to Shah rukh giving Vikram deep advice on becoming a star all the way to Kareena's house party, it was full of stars being themselves in the slightly shady world of Hindi cinema. I would definitely recommend going to watch this in the theaters, just don't go in there looking for a masala film, go in expecting the watch the behind the scenes of a masala film.

Songs:
Well, there was only about two songs I think in the film, and the more dancey one, Baawre, was the better one. Performed by Hrithik, it looks great with his amazing dance skills and the fun backdrop of a circus.