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Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) Movie Rating and Review :
Rating :
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 6/10
Screenplay – 6/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 5/10
Review :
Fun thief who would be famous
You’d surely go Oye lucky, lucky oye — in that rhythm too — once you get going with the second effort of director Dibakar Banerjee after the sleeper-hit of a movie Khosla Ka Ghosla. With foot-tapping Punjabi folksy songs pepping up the film (music by Sneha Khanwalkar) and great background score to keep up the pace, the film is about the making of a super thief, based on the life of a real person, Lucky Singh.
The little Sardar brat (Manjot Singh plays the teenage Lucky, a great job!) belongs to a poor family but has an eye for the good things of life. He gets beaten up by his father Paresh Rawal for his predilections, but that makes him more determined to get the objects of his desire.
Little Lucky is a young hooligan, but with dreams in his eyes. He grows up into an intelligent, charismatic and fearless young man (Abhay Deol), showing the promise of being much more than a petty thief. He gets close to a well-known Bhai, Gogi Bhai (Paresh Rawal’s second role in the film), but out-does him soon and goes his own way.
Lucky is a real cool cat — he is suave and a master at stealing cars. He starts to make a living from it. Cars are his home, with “front seat pe drawing room, back seat pe bedroom”. As he steals, he entertains. The heists are cute and funny — because Abhay Deol is those things too. With his sweet nature and good humour, the chor doesn’t put you off. He can talk people out of all their assets, regardless of what he is stealing. He is a charmer. But his desire is to become famous.
When he tries his hand at “proper” business by opening a restaurant with a vet, Dr Handa (Paresh Rawal’s third!), he finds out that this facelessness is coming in the way. While the entire police department and the media are bent on getting him behind bars, he uses them to get his photograph on every channel and newspaper. He gets caught, hogs all the media attention, gives the police the slip and becomes famous!
What happens to him after that is not elaborated. Hint of a sequel? Not a bad idea!
Abhay Deol, who never lets us down, is amazing. For Paresh Rawal it is no big deal to tackle three roles in the same film, but as the Sardar, Lucky’s father, he is brilliant and his encounters with his son are the funniest moments in the film. Neetu Chandra is good as a simple girl. But the one who grabs attention is Richa Chadda, who plays her sister and a dancer at nightclubs.
Dibakar Banerjee shows his craftsmanship once again with a tightly-controlled plot. Oye Lucky Lucky Oye is not Bunty Aur Babli. The frills of B&B are missing, but the thrills are intact. Without being a loud entertainer, without a Kajra re, OLLO makes for great fun.
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 6/10
Screenplay – 6/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 5/10
Review :
Fun thief who would be famous
You’d surely go Oye lucky, lucky oye — in that rhythm too — once you get going with the second effort of director Dibakar Banerjee after the sleeper-hit of a movie Khosla Ka Ghosla. With foot-tapping Punjabi folksy songs pepping up the film (music by Sneha Khanwalkar) and great background score to keep up the pace, the film is about the making of a super thief, based on the life of a real person, Lucky Singh.
The little Sardar brat (Manjot Singh plays the teenage Lucky, a great job!) belongs to a poor family but has an eye for the good things of life. He gets beaten up by his father Paresh Rawal for his predilections, but that makes him more determined to get the objects of his desire.
Little Lucky is a young hooligan, but with dreams in his eyes. He grows up into an intelligent, charismatic and fearless young man (Abhay Deol), showing the promise of being much more than a petty thief. He gets close to a well-known Bhai, Gogi Bhai (Paresh Rawal’s second role in the film), but out-does him soon and goes his own way.
Lucky is a real cool cat — he is suave and a master at stealing cars. He starts to make a living from it. Cars are his home, with “front seat pe drawing room, back seat pe bedroom”. As he steals, he entertains. The heists are cute and funny — because Abhay Deol is those things too. With his sweet nature and good humour, the chor doesn’t put you off. He can talk people out of all their assets, regardless of what he is stealing. He is a charmer. But his desire is to become famous.
When he tries his hand at “proper” business by opening a restaurant with a vet, Dr Handa (Paresh Rawal’s third!), he finds out that this facelessness is coming in the way. While the entire police department and the media are bent on getting him behind bars, he uses them to get his photograph on every channel and newspaper. He gets caught, hogs all the media attention, gives the police the slip and becomes famous!
What happens to him after that is not elaborated. Hint of a sequel? Not a bad idea!
Abhay Deol, who never lets us down, is amazing. For Paresh Rawal it is no big deal to tackle three roles in the same film, but as the Sardar, Lucky’s father, he is brilliant and his encounters with his son are the funniest moments in the film. Neetu Chandra is good as a simple girl. But the one who grabs attention is Richa Chadda, who plays her sister and a dancer at nightclubs.
Dibakar Banerjee shows his craftsmanship once again with a tightly-controlled plot. Oye Lucky Lucky Oye is not Bunty Aur Babli. The frills of B&B are missing, but the thrills are intact. Without being a loud entertainer, without a Kajra re, OLLO makes for great fun.
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