Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

The second film of any successful director is always eagerly awaited and very few of them succeed to recapture the magic as their first one did. Director Dibakar Banerjee brings an outstanding light hearted comedy of a super-chor and manages to reassure his success of Khosla ka Ghosla.

Welcome to Delhi and meet Lucky. A Sikh kid who manages to steal for his need and comfort, masters the act as he grow up to be a professional chor. What makes Luck different is his ambition to live a high-class life as fast as he can, may be in the very next minute of his desire.

The story is a simple narrative of Lucky’s personal and professional life. He remains in focus and virtually is in all the frames making each one worth enjoying. The screenplay is very interestingly woven with sharp cuts between the scenes without losing focus from the plot. The dialogues are fresh, believable and extremely funny. Background score connects to the visual very well. Both the music and the dialogues hold the film in and around Delhi. It is very interesting to see the director from East-India manages to capture, inscribe and present the gestures of the Northern Indian with ease.

As of acting is concern, credit goes to Manjot Singh who plays young Lucky. He brilliantly shapes the character making it perfectly believable. Neetu Chandra looks pretty as college girl. Also worth watching are her onscreen family members – mother and sister (sorry I don’t know their names) who are excellent to their lines. Archana Puran Singh is perfect in her short role as a North-Indian housewife. Paresh Rawal handles all the three roles with confidence – one Lucky’s father, two Lucky’s mentor boss and three Lucky’s business partner cum Veterinary doctor. And finally welcome Abhay Deol, the new age Amol Palekar cum Farooq Shaikh who dares to do different and successfully shows his talent right from Socha Na Tha to Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! He executes the role with such a charm that you start liking a thief.

What I found interesting is the brilliance of the director to use Paresh Rawal in three roles which literally and metaphorically symbolizes Lucky’s father. First Paresh Rawal is Lucky’s biological father who always speak rudely. Second he is mentor father figure, who uses Lucky’s potential to make him professional thief and third he is a satire to the popular hind proverb – Maine tera bhi Baap hoo, where Paresh Rawal is a business partner who smartly cheats out Lucky of a business deal.

Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, is pitch perfect when it comes to situational comedy. It is worth watching for its witty Delhi dialogues, very authentic characters and wonderful narrative. Make sure you grab Lucky before he steals your music system, photoframe, car, television set, jewelry, spoons, toaster, vacuum cleaner, or your Pomeranian. Go catch him.