Movies for Food Anyone?

Way to go Akhtar Senior!
Luck By Chance is delightful cinema. It is not for those viewers who want to watch a story being drilled in. It is simply about the everyday characters you would meet in the Indian Film Industry (I guess!). Farhan Akhtar character was well sketched and he did have a detailed graph. Konkana on the other hand had to pump in some great acting to make her character sound convincing and important. Shah Rukh Khan’s cameo seemed preachy and made one wonder why the protagonist would listen to him when all he had in his head was "he is the next big thing".

That said Luck By Chance is a great watch and awaiting the Akhtar siblings’ next (Karthik Calling Karthik is Farhan’s next)


Delhi – 3 Not 6 – Half way there!!
There are several rights that Delhi 6 has to its credit. The first in chronology & probably the best is the music. With Rahmania at its peak and a brilliant music score the movie has set itself a perfect start. Within the first forty mins Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra has the viewer completely engaged with vivid and well carved out characters from Delhi 6. You are almost as excited and overwhelmed by the people in Delhi 6 as Abhisekh Bachan is. Each actor seems to have slipped into their role quite effortlessly and one takes a spontaneously liking to all of them. The scene in which Waheeda Rehman falls sick leaving the protagonist thinking as to whether they had indeed left their family back in New York is a touching scene. The use of Ram Leela, the music, the galis , the Jama Masjid makes it a visual treat. The fourth right are the choice of actors. Divya Dutta, Pavan Malhotra, Rama Bua, Supriya Kapoor, Vijay Raaz , Deepak Dobriyal make perfect casting.

At the interval you are left glued and guessing as to how the drama will unfold to justify a plot with the use of so many characters, layered metaphors in less than an hour. This is where Delhi 6 begins to fail:
· Why the protagonist decides to stay is very unconvincing
· What causes communal divide - fake sadhus, political leaders, over the top media, religious clerics, vulnerable / emotional common man or all of them? Not effectively dealt with.
· Characters seem hardly threatened or worried about their safety. In fact characters like Suresh, Om Puri, Sonam Kapoor are indifferent about the brewing communal riots next door
· The director decides to make the protagonist a hero by offering an over simplified solution (common fear can unite divided groups ) to problems around.

The climax is painful as the director oscillates between cinematic and realism, ordinary and genius, obvious and metaphors. The cameo was negates quite a few of the rights.

Delhi 6 is still good, just that the expectations are a near flawless film at the interval..which it doesn’t meet.