Anno | 2009 |
Genere | Commedia |
Produzione | India |
Regia di | Zoya Akhtar |
Attori | Farhan Akhtar, Juhi Chawla, Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor Anurag Kashyap, Alyy Khan, Arjun Mathur, Hrithik Roshan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sharvani, Cheetah Yajnesh Shetty, Shilpa Shetty, Saurabh Shukla. |
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It might seem as if Bollywood couldn’t possibly satirize itself — the genre is already so over-thetop — but Zoya Akhtar manages the trick deftly in “Luck by Chance,” an appealing tale of two would-be actors looking for movie stardom.
Vikram (Farhan Akhtar, the director’s brother) arrives in Mumbai from New Delhi hoping to crack the movie business, and he soon finds romance with Sona (Konkona Sen Sharma), who is a few years ahead of him in terms of making inroads but is still waiting for her big break. The film gets its digs in early and often, populating the movie-making universe with characters who are vacuous, weaselly or both.
Ms. Akhtar, who also wrote the screenplay, shows herself to be a master of extremes. A fabulous circus-theme musical number pulls out all the stops, but a scene in which an acting teacher explains why Hindi stars have to be more talented than those in Hollywood is a subtle comic gem.
It is Vikram who finally manipulates and lucks his way into a breakthrough, and it is Mr. Akhtar whose understated performance holds together this far-ranging, cameo-filled film. He manages to remain sympathetic even while wreaking romantic havoc.
Da The New York Times, 30 gennaio 2009
It might seem as if Bollywood couldn’t possibly satirize itself — the genre is already so over-thetop — but Zoya Akhtar manages the trick deftly in “Luck by Chance,” an appealing tale of two would-be actors looking for movie stardom. Vikram (Farhan Akhtar, the director’s brother) arrives in Mumbai from New Delhi hoping to crack the movie business, and he soon finds romance with Sona (Konkona Sen Sharma), [...] Vai alla recensione »
Most foreign-language films hit American theaters at some remove from their debut in their home country, which makes the simultaneous release of "Luck by Chance" in its native India, the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and elsewhere seem charged with an unusual excitement. Something of an old-fashioned backstage musical, written and directed by Zoya Akhtar (and her directing debut at that), "Luck by Chance" [...] Vai alla recensione »