Review: Luck
Everybody was heard saying, “Yeah, it’s a copy of the French movie Tzameti” when the question ‘How was Luck?’ was fired on them. The movie has not only borrowed the theme of Tzameti but there are a few action sequences which seem to be completely copied from it.
Mafia don Mussa, played by Sanjay Dutt, plays a game in which he tests the Luck of the ‘objects’ playing the game. And, mind it, the survivors are the winners of lakhs & crores of bucks. “Its pure business,” says Moussa, who himself prides over his unfailing luck. He’s the man who blindfolded crosses railway tracks with speeding trains without getting as much as a scratch. And bullets just don’t end up in the right barrel when the gun is pointed at Moussa. Such is his luck. Now, he’s set to take the betting industry to a new high with a game where luck decides life or death.
Ram, played by Imran Khan, needs money to pay off the crores of debt his scandalous stock broker daddy left him after committing suicide. Major, played by Mithun Chakraborty, needs lakhs for the medical treatment of his wife. Ayesha, sedative Shruti Haasan, is in the game for mysterious reasons. And there are other players like Raghav, played by Ravi Kishan, a serial killer whose luck saved him from the gallows, and Shortcut (Chitrashi Rawat) who’s in to win money.
The remaining film is just a series of death-defying games which the players are made to play like some of the reality shows currently running on the various TV channels. (Remember Fear Factor) The swimming-with-sharks sequence looks like a bad joke while the ridiculous climax on a speeding train fails to pump the adrenaline.
The only thing to relish in this plagiarized thriller are a few hair-raising moments. The opening train sequence is pretty gripping. The ‘Tzameti’-copied shooting sequence could have been better.
A still from Tzameti.
But there’s no forgiving the loopholes. Guess what? Ravi Kishan who plays a serial killer gets acquitted and is honorably released from the prison just because the rope of the noose around his neck snapped at the gallows. Or take the climax when Ravi Kishan keeps shooting his machine gun at Imran who’s just a few metres from him, and not a single bullet finds Imran. These and more such sequences are a bummer for any viewer who had gone expecting an edge-of-the-seat experience.
Copied scene like a double role in Bollywood movies in Luck.
There’s hardly any adrenaline rush to be had from this ‘Luck’. The action and stunts are too many, but poorly executed. And by the end, the film is such a marvelous mess that you feel like screaming “God! Iss Bungle Se Mujhe Bachao”, but only end up cursing your luck.
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