Luck By Chance - A Review

Grade: D

There have been a slew of Hindi films of late taking potshots at the "film fraternity". I am fed up of these dishonest films and disgusted with these film makers.

Zoya Akhtar joins these band of film makers with her debut effort Luck By Chance. Given her lineage I expected a more honest but mediocre attempt in portraying the film industry. But she has taken the cowardly route just as her peers have, and ended up caricaturing the film industry. It's as if before these film makers start these type of films they have certain rules:

1.If it is set in contemporary times I will caricature this industry.
2.For an honest portrayal of the film industry I will set the film in the 1950's and show the dead people realistically .
3.If nothing works out maybe hire Madhur Bhandarkar and produce the film which will end up making everybody feel disgusted yet titillated.

The film industry is full of intelligent people who make dumb films. And instead of having the courage to show this, Zoya Akhtar shows these people to be dumb. The people in the film industry probably live in their own reality but that doesn't mean they are idiots. Caricaturing and even worse, propagating lies about the industry is the best strategy to be excused for turning out junk year after year. "We make junk films because we are dumb" is the slogan but the truth is " We make junk films because we can't make good films". And to top this all is the promotion of the idea that any film that criticizes the Hindi film industry is serious/intellectual cinema. And then the industry PR machine will kick in and the stars and the film makers on talk shows will indulge themselves in critiquing this wonderful new age liberating cinema.

The funny requirement for all these films is that the struggles of wannabe stars/actors need to be shown realistically in order to obtain artistic cred but the industry personalities are hidden behind caricatures. Show them the way they are: Smart people living in their own world and working hard to make dumb films.

That's a film I want to watch. Not this tripe.