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Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) is a Hindi movie. Radhika Rao,Vinay Sapru has directed this movie. Salman Khan,Sneha Ullal,Mithun Chakraborty,Kader Khan are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) is considered one of the best Musical,Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Mr. Sekhri is the Indian Ambassador in Russia, and his Chief Assistant is Mr. Negi. Sekhri is widowed with a son named Aditya, while Negi is married and has brought his wife, Anjali, and two daughters, Lucky and Dhara, with him to Russia. One day while going to school, Lucky's bicycle has a flat tire, and she ends up being molested by a young Russian. She manages to escape and hide in a parked car, and the molester is chased away by the car's owner - who is none other than Aditya. Unaware of his "cargo", Aditya drives the car to meet his father, until he is stopped at a check-post. That's when he finds out that Lucky is on board. Then terrorists strike out with bombs and guns, and chaos breaks lose, the telephone lines are down, and there is no electricity. Aditya and Lucky manage to escape and hide in an isolated graveyard. Meanwhile, Sekhri and Negi recruit a private investigator, retired Colonel Pindi Das Kapoor, to locate their children, which he agrees to do so. Before he can ...
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Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) Reviews
cute time pass
I thought the movie was unpretentious , cute and enjoyable!! It didn't want to be a masterpiece and I'm OK with that. Salman acted quiet well and has good comic timing, moreover, he looks better with age! A thespian he isn't but is pretty tolerable in movies like this .Sneha was really cute and has that special something about her on screen, her acting was not much to write home about, but then her character didn't require much acting either . She has screen presence, evident even in a movie like this, and more so than I expected from the promos. Mithun- he was funny @ times( when parodying old Hindi film dialogs), although he was OTT too! The songs were VERY well picturised, the romantic moments between the lead pair were well done with requisite amounts of angst and didn't leave one with an uneasy feeling at all ( despite the age gap). They had good chemistry together on screen . The cinematography was awesome, the screenplay was OK in parts. There was suspension of disbelief involved but a good movie( like this one) should make the viewers WANT to suspend disbelief rather than make them irritated. The movie was well directed on the whole .All in all, a nice 2 hours 17 minutes at the cinema..
A decent movie for Salman & Mithun fans; a passable one for the rest.
'Lucky' is not a description, but the name of the female lead in the movie. So much has been written about her looks, Salman Khan's involvement in casting her and the likeness to another blue-eyed beauty from Bollywood that more than anything, it creates a curiosity in Bollywood-followers to watch the movie. A sneaky publicity campaign in the hope of a larger audience? I think so... But the movie itself is not void of any entertainment value. On the contrary, I found ducking into a cinema to watch this movie as quite a wonderful way to get out of traffic on the drive home. The titular Lucky, as played by débutante Sneha Ullal, is a humble poetry-loving High School student studying in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives there along with her younger sister & parents - her Dad works at the Indian Embassy. Although an acheiver of good marks, she mis-reads her time-table and ends up studying for a wrong exam. Before leaving home on the fateful day, she prays to God "Please let there be no Exam today". God listens to this favoured disciple in the form of an unexpected wave of insurgency in the Russian city and neighbouring areas, causing the entire area to become a playground for bullets. Caught in-between, she bumps into Aditya (Salman Khan), the son of the Indian Ambassador, and the two take-off into the wilderness for survival. The rest of the movie has us follow the pair as they make their way through woods, poison, army camp, frozen desert, crowded trains, etc - towards their families. Mithun Chakraborty plays an Intelligence Officer (a Colonel, no less) hired by the Ambassador (Aditya's papa) to rescue our hero & heroine. In tune with Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya, the Khan brothers have again made a movie watchable with the entire family. A very clean and soft movie that has its share of mushy moments, a bit of comedy and a few action sequences. The movie is a little longer than required (especially in the second half), yet does not get boring in any of its parts. Add to that the beautiful scenics of St Petersburg, and you get the equivalent of a summer date-movie for couples fighting off the heat-wave in India. Salman Khan is his new usual self, acts in a few scenes, jokes in most, fights in some. He is beginning to look old, & maybe he realizes that and plays on it in the movie. Mithun Chakraborty does a 'love him' or 'hate him' turn - and I loved him. This man has a style of his own - and if you have watched his earlier movies (80s), you may laugh, clap and whistle to your heart's content in his sequences, as I did This movie marks the debut of four people. #1 - Sneha Ullal, the Aishwarya look-alike is a little more than just that - not only does she have the beautiful wide-eyes of the beauty but she is an actress of the same degree, i.e., Zero. Yet, for the part that she plays - a naive and super-innocent school-girl with only dreams in her eyes, she is watchable. It's a trend in Popular Indian Cinema to let non-actors make their debut and watch movie after movie of theirs while they learn acting before your very eyes. You just need to look good. And this girl does look cute. But it can get quite tiring when made to stare at her for so long. Also, she looks more like an adopted child than a gene-member of the family her character lives with in the movie. #2 & 3 are Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru - the directing duo who graduate from Music Videos to Big Screen. As with the director of Karam, these people know how to capture a movie visually, but show their mark only in short sequences of set-pieces. They walk and trip their way through the movie, but thankfully more of the former than the latter. Yet, they could have avoided the whole Kader Khanroutine (an Indian Doctor with Russian kids) - which ends up being a complete waste. #4 is Adnan Sami as Music Director for a motion picture. He does a wonderful job, and provides beautifully woven melodious numbers that go very well with the movie. None of the songs stick out, but rather blend into the narrative. The opening Asha Bhosle song "Hai Rama Rama" & the Adnan Sami & Lata Mangeshkar duet "Shayad Yehi To Pyaar Hai" stand out among all the good songs as the better ones. But the music director for the background score messes up quite a bit. 'Blaring' is a word that comes to mind. All in all, a decent movie for Salman & Mithun fans; a passable one for the rest. My rating ---> 3 of 5
Promising new directors
I must start with the admission that the Only reason I wanted to watch this film was my curiosity...I needed to know what Salman Khan's home production would do with an Aishwarya dupe. The movie was fine, I rated it 6/10 ****Spoilers!!**** The movie was sharply edited, the story crisp. Expect some clichés, tried-n-tested stock characters and weepy maudlin scenes. I liked the impeccable cinematography and tiny new twists to the familiar story line. For instance: its about Indians abroad but thank heavens, it does not move to Punjab half-way through; no seedy and pointless villains; no discomforting jingoism; the protagonist Adi (Salman) does not spout odiously saccharine lines from the start; he (thank god) does not have that mandatory scene with the girl's mum and neither's parents are dead-set against the lovers. Basically a school-girl fantasy come true, I expect the girls back home will make it a hit. I was leery about an obviously aging, haggard, lived-a-rough-life Salman paired with a girl (Sneha Ullal) who looks like a school kid. However both were at ease with each others roles, the supporting cast was adequate. I would like to make a mention of the fact that while the movie itself was not a fabulous, criterion collection material, I felt the Directors did a good job in presenting it. It's a well-made product. The story was told well, the cast did a reasonably good job, it looked great! I'll keep an eye out for their next one. And Oh, Sneha Ullal does bear an uncanny resemblance to Aishwarya Rai, her make-up and wardrobe were clearly chosen carefully to enhance that effect. As far as subliminal messages go, to a bollywood gossip enthusiast, there were many things to read between the lines. When they first meet, the girl insists she doesn't have a boyfriend, she isn't "that kind of a girl" and so on, to which the protagonist replies in a very jaded manner...yes, I've heard that before. When she then asks him to trust her, he says..."bharoosa kiya". Hmmm, in Hindi that could either mean, I trust you or I had trusted you. Wheee, my gossipy heart rejoiced...just as I had hoped. Later she berates him for not knowing how to talk to a girl. To paraphrase he says, "Well, I say...it was my fault, bye". Ahem! I will say this, one could not but notice, the Protagonist never once expressly declares his love for the girl, even right at the end. The story teases it out and one is left to fill in the blanks. I'll leave the rest for fellow enthusiasts to discover.
Fun, romantic teen flick
This was a nice, feel-good film that comes as a breath of fresh air. Adnan Sami has done an outstanding job with the music! All of the songs have been picturized beautifully. Aankhein Bharlo does a nice job of fusing the ambiance of the Russian czar era with the grace of India. Sun Zara portrays Salman's hope. Chori Chori is set in a storeroom that evokes the tale of the Princess and the Pea. Ek Ajnabi captures the captivating Siberian desert. Lucky Lips is a fun song, and the remix, which doesn't feature in the movie, is really cool. All songs are very melodious and enjoyable. As one can tell from the promos, Sneha Ullal is not much more expressive than a zombie. She's lucky that her role required her to be pretty much a zombie. One can really tell that she's very camera shy. Salman Khan did a great job, and it is nice to see him after such a long gap. Cinematography is magnificent as it captures not just the majestic Russian tundra and landscape, but also the Russian culture, values, and political climate. There is not much of a story as this movie doesn't really require one. It's a run-for-your-lives type of film with Salman and Sneha trying to dodge the terrorists and falling in love in the process.
Okay
This film wasn't what i thought it would be, in terms of i thought that it would be another bollywood flop. I was definitely wrong, as salman khan made a great appearance, i certainly thought that his acting recently has improved dramatically, he's funny, charming as well a serious actor. Although the lady actress is the main character in the movie, salman khan seems to be carrying her throughout the film, he does most of the talking and she listens. The action stunts in the movie was truly surprising, the directors did a pretty good job in making the stunts look like a Hollywood film, so a big pat on the back for those Asian directors, they have definitely come a long way. Overall a movie worth watching.