Andhra Pradesh

This Deol is growing in stature

Laugh riot: A still from ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’

Film: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

Cast: Abhay Deol, Neetu Chandra and Paresh Rawal

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

There is a new set of directors who want to show mirror to society without being judgmental or wasting loads of rolls. Dibakar Banerjee is one of them. Here he makes us look at the thief in each one of us. He is in familiar territory, the lanes and by-lanes of Delhi, which he mastered in “Khosla ka Ghosla”, and once again has got the setting and the lingo nearly to perfection. There are no set-piece comedy scenes; it is just the situations that make you laugh.

In the story of Lucky, the thief with a heart, and his ambitious journey from rags to riches, he has a fantastic plot to keep the suspension of disbelief going. Dibakar loses control in the middle when he has situations but nothing much in terms of story growth. He abruptly moves from scene to scene.

Here he found a perfect protagonist in the form of Abhay Deol, who doesn’t allow you to notice the inadequacies. This Deol is slowly but surely growing in stature as an actor.

Neetu Chandra, as the girl next-door, has given him suitable company. She never tries to steal a scene, but never allows herself to be a piece of furniture either.

A triple role amounts to a heavy dose, but with Paresh Rawal there is nothing like repetitive. Go for it!

ANUJ KUMAR

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