By chance, if you are lucky *
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:13PM You get to watch Luck by chance on DVD.
Maybe my expectations were too high after watching "Rock On"?
Konkona was great, even Isha was tolerable. Farhan was barely making the cut, and the music did not carry the movie.
Somehow my taste in movies has one lowest common denominator. No matter what the genre, the movie should keep moving forward! It should hold my attention. Any movie where I doze off or pull out my phone and have a temptation to check email, has disappointed me.
The first half of this movie was very well made. It was witty, funny, very natural and had everything going for it.
The second half was so predictable and at one point was just suspended .. it was like a feather hovering just before it takes another drop.. except it just hovered there, a little too long!
The last movie we (MIL and me) watched was Spellbound (the Hitchcock 1945 B/W movie) and watching this after that was not a good idea. We both came out saying "hmm.. that guy made a movie for almost 2 hours with 4 main characters and kept us engrossed and here we are dozing off in a 2009 movie".
We are now hoping for Delhi 6 in the coming weeks. We know the music is awesome..hope it moves us as well!
* Ps. I should add that in the second half the senior artists who were playing supporting roles were really showing off their acting talent and by comparison Farhan pales.
Moral of the story, dont have seasoned veterans play your supporting casts when you are making a movie about moviemaking with young leads!
pps. Note to self : going forward, lower expecations a tad before walking into a movie... dont expect much and be surprised!
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Reader Comments (2)
so you are yet to get out of 'spell bound' !
And that's not a by chance occurrence !
I liked Luck By Chance. You see, i have seen Chandni Chowk to China in recent times !! ;)
Even otherwise, the movie was good...hmm !
Kavi
I also liked the first half very much.. even after the intermission the movie was okay.. then it suddenly lost steam.
The senior actors who played supporting roles were too good at what they were doing compared to the junior artists playing the lead roles in the movie (except Konkona).
Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla and Dimple were the ones keeping me entertained...
Rishi and Juhi got all the laughs in the theater here..
like I said, should not be too harsh on this movie because I went in with very high expectations.. maybe that is the problem.