Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase 2009

When Vikram arrives in Mumbai from New Delhi hoping to crack the movie business, he soon finds romance with Sona, who is a few years ahead of him in terms of making inroads but is still waiting for her big break. The film gets its digs in early and often by populating the movie-making universe with characters who are vacuous, weaselly or both. It might seem as if Bollywood couldn’t possibly satirize itself — the genre is already so over-the top, but director Zoya Akhtar manages the trick deftly in LUCK BY CHANCE, an appealing tale of two would-be actors looking for movie stardom.