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Luck (2009 film)
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Luck is a 2009 Hindi action
-thriller film directed and written by Soham Shah, and produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. The leading roles were played by Mithun Chakraborty
, debutant Shruti Haasan
, Imran Khan
and Sanjay Dutt
; the other significant parts, and fellow members of the gang were played by Danny Denzongpa
, Ravi Kishan
and Chitrashi Rawat
, prominent actors from the Indian film industry. The camera of the film was handled by Santosh Thundiyil
, whilst composer duo Salim-Sulaiman
recorded the musical score. The film is loosely based on 2002 Spanish movie Intacto
.
The film opened to Indian audiences on 24 July 2009.
), who is a very lucky person seeing the story of his life. He remained the sole survivor when a mosque collapsed in Maharashtra
when he was just a child of nine months and was amongst very few survivors of another incident at the age of 12. When he was 14, he challenged three friends to jump from a four-storied building and remained alive, though with some injuries, and won. He started gambling at 19 and since then tried out his luck in different places of the world and became known as Musa Bhai. To him gambling and drug smuggling have become old ways to get money, his latest interest is investment on people's luck.
A very lucky young man, Ram Mehra (Imran Khan
), is abducted by Lakhan Tamang (Danny Denzongpa
), but instead of taking, he gives Ram 1 lakh rupees and explains that Ram is very lucky as Tamang bought lottery tickets for two years without any success until he took tickets from Ram both of which won him 2 lakh rupees. He then offers Ram 20 lakh rupees for which Ram has to gamble with him for 20 days. After Ram agrees, Musa Bhai and Tamang create a game, getting lots of lucky people to play, and the luckiest ones win them money.
Later, along with Ram, Tamang hires another lucky man, Major Jawan Pratap Singh (Mithun Chakrabarty), who is a soldier and a lucky one as he fought in many battles and faced numerous bullets none that could kill him. He is in need of money for the operation of his wife, Sheela (Rupa Ganguly
). Tamang visits Pakistan
where he sees Shortcut (Chitrashi Rawat
), a 16 year old girl, who is also known to be lucky as any camel she rides wins the race and observes her winning one despite her camel's half-broken leg. Tamang pays four lakh rupees to "export" her to South Africa
. Tamang then invites the sole-criminal, Raghav (Ravi Kishan
) to the game. Raghav was put in Tihar Jail
for raping many women, and also killing them, but when he was hanged, he survived, and since the Indian law doesn't allow one person to be hanged twice, he frees from Tihar Jail.
All competitors arrive in Cape Town
. There, Ram meets another lucky girl (Shruti Haasan
). Her name is revealed to be Ayesha and Tamang says she took part in the game once before. In their first game, all competitors shoot the person to their right at the same time. All the real unlucky ones die, though the real lucky ones survive. Later that night, while everyone is eating at a dining table, Raghav goes to Ayesha's room, and starts flirting with her, though Ayesha pays no attention and leaves. The second game is where all of the lucky ones take parachutes and jump off from a helicopter. Among the unlucky is Ayesha whose parachute doesn't open but she is saved by Ram, who developed a liking towards her, and afterwards, they start getting closer. In the third game, everyone is left in a hollow tank with one of everyone's hand locked with handcuffs and in front of them are 300 keys and one each will open the handcuffs and added to their trouble are the sharks that swim around them as they start opening the handcuffs as the tank sinks. Only one dies, though the most jolly girl, whom everyone loved, Shortcut is attacked by a shark. The shark bites her leg, but since Ram can't bear to see it, he jumps into the water, and saves the harmed Shortuct (who is then taken to the hospital). Later on, it is revealed that due to her leg, Shortcut will not be taking part in any of the games anymore.
Before the third and final game, Raghav tries to rape Ayesha, who then runs away to Musa and Tamang, where it is revealed that Ayesha is really dead and it is Natasha (her twin-sister) playing, taking Ayesha's character whilst seeking revenge on Musa, for murdering her sister, though Musa finds out about this, and uses her for the game. In the final game, Ram, on whom the bid is the highest ever, has to save Natasha before the train she's tied to hits an oil tanker while Major Singh will help him and Raghav will shoot at Ram and the other survivors try to stop Ram. On the train, Ram starts to fight Raghav, but once Raghav is knocked out on the floor, Ram goes to save Natasha, but Raghav gets up, then interrupted by Major Singh, who to save Natasha and Ram, jumps onto Raghav. However, Raghav pushes Major Singh down to the back of the train, which later explodes. Raghav then goes to Ram, who is currently untying Natasha's hands, though Raghav attacks Ram from the back, but when the oil tank reaches right infront of the train, Ram and Natasha jump off, and Raghav dies. When Ram and Natasha realize what has happened, before they lose hope, Major Singh is seen on the floor getting up, who explains that he jumped off the train a second before his side of the train exploded. The three survivors are then approached by Musa and Tamang, who claim that they won 20 crore rupees each due to Ram.
In the climax, Ram stakes his reward and challenges Musa to a game where two pistols are dug in coal the train's carrying and one has to find one and shoot the other. Mussa finds both but hands one to Ram and both shoot at the same time and hit each other, Ram is shot at the place of his heart and Mussa survives as he is hit at his shoulder. Though, it is shown that Ram's heart is at his right side (dextrocardia
), very rare for a human, rather than left and eventually wins back his reward. Then, Shortcut's leg is fixed by a prosthesis
, Major Singh saves his wife and maintains his title "Lucky Major Jawan Pratap Singh" and Ram and Natasha become life partners.
and one by guest composer Hamza Mirza. The lyrics are primarily penned by Shabbir Ahmed and Anvita Dutt Guptan
. The audio of the film released nationwide on 28 June 2009, a month prior to the release. The album, notably features a song sung entirely by the lead actress Shruti Haasan
who made her debut with the film.
, Punjab
, Bihar
, Rajasthan
, Gujarat and Maharashtra
were in the 70% - 80% range. But the 3 p.m. shows were almost houseful everywhere. The opening at multiplexes, however, was around 40%. Mumbai
was affected due to the high tide scare on Friday but soon rose up on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, the film collected an impressive 280,000 DHS on its opening day in UAE.
In 4 weeks, the film collected Rs
11,98,12,950 in India, meanwhile collecting Rs 1,63,945 in the UK and Rs 1,49,333 in US. Luck received extremely rapid reviews, though commercialy failed as an 'Flop'.
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
-thriller film directed and written by Soham Shah, and produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. The leading roles were played by Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
, debutant Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artiste, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama,...
, Imran Khan
Imran Khan (actor)
Imran Khan is an Indian American film actor. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and producer-director Mansoor Khan.Khan rose to stardom for his debut role in the 2008 blockbuster film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut...
and Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...
; the other significant parts, and fellow members of the gang were played by Danny Denzongpa
Danny Denzongpa
Tshering Phintso Denzongpa , widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa, is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films....
, Ravi Kishan
Ravi Kishan
Ravi Kishan is an Indian film actor and television personality, who works in Hindi cinema and Bhojpuri cinema. In 2006, he participated in Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.-Early life:...
and Chitrashi Rawat
Chitrashi Rawat
Chitrashi Rawat is a state hockey player and an actress from India. She played the role of Komal Chautala, a member of the Indian women's national hockey team, in the movie Chak De India. At age 17, Chitrashi played left striker in hockey for Uttarakhand state in India...
, prominent actors from the Indian film industry. The camera of the film was handled by Santosh Thundiyil
Santosh Thundiyil
Santosh Thundiyil is one of the highly appreciated contemporary Indian cinematographers. His first film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was one of the biggest box office hit in the Indian Cinema.-Career:...
, whilst composer duo Salim-Sulaiman
Salim-Sulaiman
Salim Merchant And Sulaiman Merchant are a musical duo of brothers, born and brought up in Bhuj, Kutch, India. They belong to Ismaili Muslim family and are inspired by their father Sadruddin Merchant, who used to lead Ismaili Scouts Orchestra in India..Steeped in a family tradition of music as the...
recorded the musical score. The film is loosely based on 2002 Spanish movie Intacto
Intacto
Intacto is a film thriller first released in Spain during November, 2001, and then internationally on the film festival circuit in 2002. It was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo....
.
The film opened to Indian audiences on 24 July 2009.
Plot
Luck follows the story of kingpin Karim Musa (Sanjay DuttSanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...
), who is a very lucky person seeing the story of his life. He remained the sole survivor when a mosque collapsed in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
when he was just a child of nine months and was amongst very few survivors of another incident at the age of 12. When he was 14, he challenged three friends to jump from a four-storied building and remained alive, though with some injuries, and won. He started gambling at 19 and since then tried out his luck in different places of the world and became known as Musa Bhai. To him gambling and drug smuggling have become old ways to get money, his latest interest is investment on people's luck.
A very lucky young man, Ram Mehra (Imran Khan
Imran Khan (actor)
Imran Khan is an Indian American film actor. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and producer-director Mansoor Khan.Khan rose to stardom for his debut role in the 2008 blockbuster film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut...
), is abducted by Lakhan Tamang (Danny Denzongpa
Danny Denzongpa
Tshering Phintso Denzongpa , widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa, is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films....
), but instead of taking, he gives Ram 1 lakh rupees and explains that Ram is very lucky as Tamang bought lottery tickets for two years without any success until he took tickets from Ram both of which won him 2 lakh rupees. He then offers Ram 20 lakh rupees for which Ram has to gamble with him for 20 days. After Ram agrees, Musa Bhai and Tamang create a game, getting lots of lucky people to play, and the luckiest ones win them money.
Later, along with Ram, Tamang hires another lucky man, Major Jawan Pratap Singh (Mithun Chakrabarty), who is a soldier and a lucky one as he fought in many battles and faced numerous bullets none that could kill him. He is in need of money for the operation of his wife, Sheela (Rupa Ganguly
Rupa Ganguly
Rupa Ganguly or Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress in the Hindi and Bengali language film industry, as well as television She became popular after playing Draupadi in the hit Television series Mahabharat , and in film is most known for her roles in films like Padma Nadir Majhi by Gautam Ghose,...
). Tamang visits Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
where he sees Shortcut (Chitrashi Rawat
Chitrashi Rawat
Chitrashi Rawat is a state hockey player and an actress from India. She played the role of Komal Chautala, a member of the Indian women's national hockey team, in the movie Chak De India. At age 17, Chitrashi played left striker in hockey for Uttarakhand state in India...
), a 16 year old girl, who is also known to be lucky as any camel she rides wins the race and observes her winning one despite her camel's half-broken leg. Tamang pays four lakh rupees to "export" her to South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. Tamang then invites the sole-criminal, Raghav (Ravi Kishan
Ravi Kishan
Ravi Kishan is an Indian film actor and television personality, who works in Hindi cinema and Bhojpuri cinema. In 2006, he participated in Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.-Early life:...
) to the game. Raghav was put in Tihar Jail
Tihar Jail
Tihar Prisons , also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram , is the largest complex of prisons in South Asia. It is located at Tihar village, approximately 7 km from Chanakya Puri, to the west of New Delhi, India. The surrounding area is called Hari Nagar.The prison is maintained as a...
for raping many women, and also killing them, but when he was hanged, he survived, and since the Indian law doesn't allow one person to be hanged twice, he frees from Tihar Jail.
All competitors arrive in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
. There, Ram meets another lucky girl (Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artiste, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama,...
). Her name is revealed to be Ayesha and Tamang says she took part in the game once before. In their first game, all competitors shoot the person to their right at the same time. All the real unlucky ones die, though the real lucky ones survive. Later that night, while everyone is eating at a dining table, Raghav goes to Ayesha's room, and starts flirting with her, though Ayesha pays no attention and leaves. The second game is where all of the lucky ones take parachutes and jump off from a helicopter. Among the unlucky is Ayesha whose parachute doesn't open but she is saved by Ram, who developed a liking towards her, and afterwards, they start getting closer. In the third game, everyone is left in a hollow tank with one of everyone's hand locked with handcuffs and in front of them are 300 keys and one each will open the handcuffs and added to their trouble are the sharks that swim around them as they start opening the handcuffs as the tank sinks. Only one dies, though the most jolly girl, whom everyone loved, Shortcut is attacked by a shark. The shark bites her leg, but since Ram can't bear to see it, he jumps into the water, and saves the harmed Shortuct (who is then taken to the hospital). Later on, it is revealed that due to her leg, Shortcut will not be taking part in any of the games anymore.
Before the third and final game, Raghav tries to rape Ayesha, who then runs away to Musa and Tamang, where it is revealed that Ayesha is really dead and it is Natasha (her twin-sister) playing, taking Ayesha's character whilst seeking revenge on Musa, for murdering her sister, though Musa finds out about this, and uses her for the game. In the final game, Ram, on whom the bid is the highest ever, has to save Natasha before the train she's tied to hits an oil tanker while Major Singh will help him and Raghav will shoot at Ram and the other survivors try to stop Ram. On the train, Ram starts to fight Raghav, but once Raghav is knocked out on the floor, Ram goes to save Natasha, but Raghav gets up, then interrupted by Major Singh, who to save Natasha and Ram, jumps onto Raghav. However, Raghav pushes Major Singh down to the back of the train, which later explodes. Raghav then goes to Ram, who is currently untying Natasha's hands, though Raghav attacks Ram from the back, but when the oil tank reaches right infront of the train, Ram and Natasha jump off, and Raghav dies. When Ram and Natasha realize what has happened, before they lose hope, Major Singh is seen on the floor getting up, who explains that he jumped off the train a second before his side of the train exploded. The three survivors are then approached by Musa and Tamang, who claim that they won 20 crore rupees each due to Ram.
In the climax, Ram stakes his reward and challenges Musa to a game where two pistols are dug in coal the train's carrying and one has to find one and shoot the other. Mussa finds both but hands one to Ram and both shoot at the same time and hit each other, Ram is shot at the place of his heart and Mussa survives as he is hit at his shoulder. Though, it is shown that Ram's heart is at his right side (dextrocardia
Dextrocardia
Dextrocardia is a congenital defect in which the heart is situated on the right side of the body. There are two main types of dextrocardia: dextrocardia of embryonic arrest and dextrocardia situs inversus...
), very rare for a human, rather than left and eventually wins back his reward. Then, Shortcut's leg is fixed by a prosthesis
Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb is an artificial device extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control...
, Major Singh saves his wife and maintains his title "Lucky Major Jawan Pratap Singh" and Ram and Natasha become life partners.
Cast
- Mithun ChakrabortyMithun ChakrabortyMithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
as Major Jawar Pratap Singh - Sanjay DuttSanjay DuttSanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...
as Karim Moussa - Danny DenzongpaDanny DenzongpaTshering Phintso Denzongpa , widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa, is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films....
as Lakhan Tamaang - Imran KhanImran Khan (actor)Imran Khan is an Indian American film actor. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and producer-director Mansoor Khan.Khan rose to stardom for his debut role in the 2008 blockbuster film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut...
as Ram Mehra - Ravi Kissen as Raghav Raghuvaran
- Shruti HaasanShruti HaasanShruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artiste, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama,...
as Ayesha / Natasha (Introducing) - Rati AgnihotriRati AgnihotriRati Agnihotri is a veteran Indian actress. Her portfolio mainly includes films in Hindi-Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She was born to a Sikh family.-Film career:...
as Ram's Mother - Chitrashi RawatChitrashi RawatChitrashi Rawat is a state hockey player and an actress from India. She played the role of Komal Chautala, a member of the Indian women's national hockey team, in the movie Chak De India. At age 17, Chitrashi played left striker in hockey for Uttarakhand state in India...
as Shortcut - Snita Mahey as Angela (Introducing)
- Snehal DabiSnehal DabiSnehal Dabi is an Indian actor who became known for playing the role of "Chander Krishnakant Khote," a fun-loving gangster-wannabe in Satya...
as Jiten - Daya Shankar Pandey as Passport Agent
- Roopa Ganguly as Sheila (Major Jawar Pratap Singh's wife)
- Srinivasa Rao Kota as Swami
Soundtrack
The album has nine songs, eight composed by duo Salim-SulaimanSalim-Sulaiman
Salim Merchant And Sulaiman Merchant are a musical duo of brothers, born and brought up in Bhuj, Kutch, India. They belong to Ismaili Muslim family and are inspired by their father Sadruddin Merchant, who used to lead Ismaili Scouts Orchestra in India..Steeped in a family tradition of music as the...
and one by guest composer Hamza Mirza. The lyrics are primarily penned by Shabbir Ahmed and Anvita Dutt Guptan
Anvita Dutt Guptan
Anvita Dutt Guptan is a dialogue writer, screenplay writer, story writer and lyricist for Indian films.Following is the details of her work.-References:**...
. The audio of the film released nationwide on 28 June 2009, a month prior to the release. The album, notably features a song sung entirely by the lead actress Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artiste, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama,...
who made her debut with the film.
Track listing
Box office
Luck was released worldwide on 1,110 prints in 1300 screens. In India, it was released on 976 prints (343 physical prints and 633 digital prints) in 1,150 screens and in 134 prints on 150 screens in overseas. The action-thriller Luck fetched a very good start at single screens of most circuits. The 12 noon shows in U.P.Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
, Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, Gujarat and Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
were in the 70% - 80% range. But the 3 p.m. shows were almost houseful everywhere. The opening at multiplexes, however, was around 40%. Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
was affected due to the high tide scare on Friday but soon rose up on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, the film collected an impressive 280,000 DHS on its opening day in UAE.
In 4 weeks, the film collected Rs
Indian rupee
The Indian rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India....
11,98,12,950 in India, meanwhile collecting Rs 1,63,945 in the UK and Rs 1,49,333 in US. Luck received extremely rapid reviews, though commercialy failed as an 'Flop'.