2009 · drama · satire
Luck by Chance
Directed by Zoya Akhtar2h 35m2009
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
Our read: Luck by Chance (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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