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Inspired by love letters to Hindi cinema like  Om Shanti Om  and  Guddi ,  Luck By Chance  is a sombre but glittering account of what goes about in the industry―behind the screen. And who better to helm a struggler story than (and oxymoronically) Zoya Akhtar: Javed Akhtar's daughter and Farhan Akhtar's assistant sister. All shades of nepotism aside, the film can be viewed as Zoya's guidebook of the film industry to and from her brother, father and stepmother (all of whom appear in the film). What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but Bollywood does not completely buy into this moniker. It's a nepotistic, capitalistic warzone where each whisper is worth a tabloid fortune. Speaking of tabloid and in turn,  Page 3 , Konkona Sen Sharma puts up a most effortless and convincing performance as Sona, albeit the headstrong, independent woman role has become a typecast for her, really. And our hero? The struggler who gets lucky by chance, Vikram Jaisingh (big brother

The cinema of syncretism is celebrated but not restricted to that of Manmohan Desai. Given the popularity of the secular trio of Amar, Akbar and Anthony, many people erroneously cite them as the first such syncretic trio. Among others, a similar, albeit shallower trio had come out four years earlier in the Prakash Mehra hit and the Bachchan stardom spawner Zanjeer. Source: The Tallenge Store The film features three unrelated brothers in arms. Hindu Vijay Khanna, Muslim Pathan Sher Khan and Christian De Silva. All three conspire to find and eliminate Teja, the smart but dreaded don of the city. Teja Source: Rediff Two parallel stories, two parallel traumas mark the plot of the film.  The white horse. Vijay's traumatic past and his nightmarish present. The aloof child, Vijay "Jab tak baithne ko na kaha jaaye, sharafat se khade raho. Ye police station hai tumhare baap ka ghar nahin" The hardened, honest inspector Vijay Khannna roughs up his future pal Sher Khan (Pran). It is