Review : Lucky

As far as films go, this one is an excercise in imbecility. The 2 point rating that I’ve generously bestowed on it is partly due to decent direction, and good music.

The plot is sketchy-thin, with Lucky (Sneha Ullal) being a shy schoolgirl in St.Petersburg, with dad Ravi Baswani employed at the Indian embassy. She is by chance, thrown together with Aditya Sekri (Khan), the son of Indian ambassodor (Gokhale), who is driving down in his speedy roadster from Europe to Russia. The pair must stick together while striving to escape insurgency and terrorists, and ofcourse get romantically involved. Help is on its way in the form of Colonel Pindidas Kapoor (Mithun) who plays the detective out to look for the two.

Ms. Ullal, who is actually (gasp!) playing her age in this movie, resembles Mayuri Kanungo, you know – the actress who made her debut vs. Jugal Hansraj. However, Sneha cannot act, and most of her “acting” on screen comes across as a dumb, coy potrayal of a female not in possession of all mental faculties. Salman is himself, good at comedy, passable otherwise. Mithun is barely adequate. The characters are not fleshed out in depth, anddon’t really sync. up. Take for example, Lucky, the beautiful innocent, who on the spur of the moment, belts out a hip-gyrating, “worldly”, number titled “Lucky Lips”. So much for contrived innocence !

The locales are beautiful, but dialogues inane. Salman gets to be manly and display his biceps. Sneha gets to look pretty and dumb. The film, although technically polished lacks in character, adequate story development and screenplay. Big problems indeed. The music is one of the good things about this film, with catchy numbers and a decent background score. However, it really can’t hold up the film. In totality, a bad film, best avoided.