As luck would have it...

Hello dahlings!!

I love spontaneity! If anyone ever wrote a biography of yours truly, please make sure you write an entire chapter on 'How Rutuja Got Spontaneous, Got Wild and Had a Life!' :) Most of my wonderful memories till date gather around making plans out-of-the-blue and going for them. Movies..treks..dinners..even elocution competitions and eventually winning 1st prize (Okay! Enough show-off!)

So. The other day a group of us extremely bored girls decided, at the spur of the moment, to go out for a movie. Now let me give you an idea..these girls are not one of those who go 'Shit ya! I am sooo bored' as soon as they wake up, they are the go-getters, first-benchers of the class, glasses/lenses wearing, oily haired ladies with huge fines on their names in college libraries and on whom their groups shamelessly free-ride! (Okay!..One of them just died laughing). Anyway, the point is these girls are the hardworking kinds who were slogging out for days and had reached their saturation point. A few frantic phone calls to the friendly neighbourhood rickshawala - Pappu bhai and we were all set.

We were just so determined to catch 'Luck by Chance' at the nearest theatre that we really didnt mind missing the first 15 mins of the movie and the entire scene of Aamir Khan. (Oops..Plot spoilers ahead!!) The movie was fresh..the cast was surprising and it seemed as though the entire film industry dropped on to the sets of LBC to say a hi and were offered a complimentary scene :P But it certainly didnt look out of place.

Lemme start off by jotting down a few things that I remember from the movie:

• Farhan 'WoW' Akhtar: What's with this guy? He has this mesmerizing charm that you cant keep your eyes off him. He's just your regular guy but there is something as delectable as a choco-chip ice cream (double scoop topped with nuts and chocolate sauce..yumm!) about him, that you cant have enough of him! You want him in each scene, in each frame..and gawd! his smile makes you go totally 'Aaaaawwwww' :') He acts naturally - be it comedy, romance or heavy drama and even manages to pull off the regular 'running around the trees' sequence with unbelievable ease!
  

• Konkana Sharma: Now they don't make them like these any more, do they? :) She is sensuous, she is sensitive and she is real. As real as life. This lady warms my heart in each of her movies by her sheer presence. She emotes the way you and I would in the drawing rooms of our home. She reacts like us. She talks like us. And the best part, she looks just like us. Only in better clothes ;) To call her art 'acting' would be an insult, she seems to live that character. And most importantly, she makes us live that character.
  

• Hrithik 'Greek-God' Roshan (Can I please have him as my birthday gift?)
  Gawd!! What looks! What physique! What dancing skills! What acting! Why-o-why does he entice us this way? He makes women take one hard look at their husbands/boyfriends and shake their heads in dejection. He makes girls lose their sleep and sanity. He makes guys burn out of jealousy as their girlfriends lech at him with hungry eyes :P Enough said :D
  

• Isha Sharvani's figure: I hate her for being so slim :( But not feeling too bad, coz she cant act, I would have died of complex otherwise. And yes, she can do rope-malkhamb as well, but so can those tiny lil' things at Samarth Vyayam Mandir at Shivaji Park :P

The rest of the cast..well, they certainly dont deserve being called 'the rest of the cast' :D
Dimple Kapadia, Juhi Chawla and Rishi Kapoor have all performed their roles to the hilt. The one scene when Dimple Kapadia's character lashes out at her daughter, saying that she as a child never got the luxuries that her daughter was enjoying..how she was forced to act in movies by her parents, is a beautifully shocking one which requires special mention. It offers a rare glimpse to the new generation on what acting was all about in that bygone era and all the good things we have missed :)

But then how can you talk about a movie without mentioning the true star of the movie?? Zoya Akhtar..Take a bow! The film industry is paradoxically seeing a surge in talent during the economic downswing. For the efforts she has taken and are visible. For the script that is interesting. For the characters she etched on paper and brought to life. For sharing the stereotypes and idiosyncrasies of film industry she probably grew up with. But mostly, I thank her for the beautiful end of the movie. Human beings are selfish in real life. Its time we accept it. Our dhishoom-dhishoom Hindi film hero is also human and can be a selfish, self-centered moron who wants people coz he needs them. Vikram isnt a bad guy. But its high time we stop glorifying our heroes. Sona's decision to live for herself and not become a drawing room fixture in Vikram's life very subtly brings out the director's sensitivity. Sona is a woman of today coz Zoya is one. A thinking, daring, ambitious woman who has her own dreams and wants to fulfill them herself. Is she any different from the girls of today? Then why has it taken such a long time and a lady director like Zoya to depict this in reel life?

To be honest, the entire movie would have been a disappointment if Sona would have gladly become a part of Vikram's life. More so if she would have given up on her dreams.

Zoya Akhtar and more like her, hope you guys are here to stay! :) and yes, one more dance number by Hrithik wouldn't hurt next time ;)