Originally Posted by
aashaka_gandhi 
Cast: Imran Khan, Shruti Haasan, Danny Denzongpa, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Ravi Kishan, Chitrashi
Director: Soham Shah
‘Luck’, based entirely on the premise of it brimming over with edge-of-the-seat action, tips us over a couple of times-- at best. The rest is spent building up to a climax which isn’t as much it was supposed too.
Reality television comes to big screen but the fear factor is that it’s too pretentious. So in the same South African city where Akshay Kumar played host to daredevil girls, Sanjay Dutt challenges an eclectic group to perform stunts for his betting business.
Predictably you also know their order of elimination with the junior artists getting knocked-off first and subsequently the hero (Imran Khan) surviving over the villain (Ravi Kishen).
The first half of the film is merely devoted to character introductions though none are convincingly established. For the zillionth time, Sanjay Dutt repeats his gun-toting act, moving around in sherwani & jackets and a French beard in the company of black-suited bodyguards. What more, even his name isn’t any different – Muussa. Worst Clothes eva he could ve worn.
Ram Mehra (Imran Khan) has to repay the 20 crores that his late father had lost in stock market. Retired Major Jawar Pratap Singh (Mithun Chakravarthy) needs money for his ailing wife. For the neighbouring country connection, the script takes a Shortcut (Chitrashi Rawat). The best is yet to come! When a loose noose fails to hang rapist Raghav (Ravi Kishen) to death, he is officially set free by the law. (stupid)
The group is hand-picked by Tamang (Danny) for Muussa who indulges into the most synchronized corny conversations in the film. As he gets the team to South Africa, Musa makes them aim on each other at point blank range (in a scene directly lifted from 13 Tzameti ) and only peripheral characters from the circle are subtracted.
What follows is a series of terminal tasks where not the mighty but the lucky would survive. So than the characters have their legs gobbled up by rubber sharks and look plastic as they fall off parachutes. Amidst all this action, the director is inclined to force a mandatory romance track (through nonexistent chemistry between Imran and Shruti Hassan) and a rape attempt to reach a speeding climax.
The opening and ending action sequences by Allan Amin are convincingly choreographed but the intermediate stunts appear too artificial. The director tries to cover up the patchiness of the action by Santosh Thundiyil’s erratic camerawork but it only disturbs more. The banter between characters in confrontational scenes looks too rehearsed. Each one has a dramatized mugged-up response to complement the opponent’s remarks. The emotional connect with viewer is certainly missing despite director Soham Shah’s repeated attempts to induce sentiments.
Imran Khan gives a decent performance though he can go easy on his lip movements. Shruti Hassan is synthetic and fails to impress, specially the way she speaks.....Danny is better amongst others but his character is short-lived in the second half. Ravi Kishen, Mithun and Chitrashi are passable.
The script of the film relies too much on coincidental luck. Director Soham Shah rubs too hard on luck but at the same time stresses on the adage that ‘the only thing certain about luck is it’s going to change’. On that thought here’s wishing him better luck next time!
Personally, I was ok with the movie.... not too good not too bad....avg. movie... Imran was much better than kidnap. Sanju baba ....need a better fashion designer...not making him wear sherwani's n jackets or weirdest colours. the movie almost had the word LUCK spoken for like more than 700 times......Shruti shud def. take dialogue delievery n a bit of acting lessons....
In all..... i would say an alright movie.
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