Oye kya hua oye!!
Director Dibakar Banerjee, who gave us the refreshing 'Khosla ka Ghosla', gives us now 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye', story of Lucky, a boy from the sub-urbs of Delhi and who transforms into to Thief, that too one who works his way out everytime the police catch him
Lucky (Abhay Deol), starts off stealing few rupees from his house and them scooters for a free ride from his neighborhood scooter dealer and then becomes a full-fledged theif, who steals everthing and anything that he feels must be taken out of that house!! Helping and being beside him in every step of his life is his childhood friend Bangali, who isnt as 'Street smart' as lucky but is surely of very good help to lucky.
Also in the story is Paresh Rawal, not in one or two roles, but in three roles, which i feel is the major flaw of the movie. Paresh plays Lucky's strict father, Smuggler by the night Entertainer and Dr Handa, a veterinary doc.
The story is all about how a sub-urb boy of Delhi becomes a small time thief and continues his work as passion and goes to such a level that he robs 5-6 houses with their cars on a single night just because he is enraged with what has happened in his life.
The story is very realistic, locations, screenplay and all other 'Behind the screen' details are all perfect to the core, But what mainly makes an otherwise Fantastic movie to an Average one, is the on-screen part of movie making.
Dibakar used a lot of relatively lesser known actors and character actors for his first movie, like Anupam Kher, Praveen Dabbas, Ranvir shorey( who was a small screen guy then), Vinay pathak as the main character for his first movie 'Khosla Ka Ghosla'. But the same trick seems hasnt worked out well for this movie. Abhay Deol, feel was just able to float in getting into the role of Lucky. Dibakar should have gone ahead with someother actor, giving out more energy for the role of Lucky. Abhay though has given his best for the role and has been sincere in essaying the character, but the character should have had much more fire than what was shown by Abhay.
I really dont understand why Dibakar, gave not one, not two but three roles to Paresh Rawal, was there a budget constraint? The role as Lucky's father is the worst among the lot, how can u ask a Gujju ( Paresh Rawal) to play a Sikh!!, he doesnt even able to pronounce the words in punjaabi accent as much as the small boy is able to do. Then the role of Gogi Bhai, gives us the paresh rawal, who we had forgotten long back, playing a bad guy. The role is a good one for Paresh but looks like the role should have been slightly more meatier for him. Then the last that of Dr Handa, a veterinary doctor who wants to open a restuarant, even here, Paresh has been moved his back to the wall. Looks like Paresh Rawal is shouting at the director "Give me one role with meat than three without even the smell of meat"!!
All in all, as i told, a good script, screenplay, background music, and camerawork. But Dibakar, pls take a wise decision next time when u are casting for your movie.
Rating : 3 out of 5
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