IIFA awards are action replay of filmfare awards.

IIFA awards are action replay of filmfare awards.

This year’s IIFA awards are announced in June, 2009. Most of the awards were action replay of the filmfare awards given this year.

Hrithik Roshan won the IIFA award for the best actor for his performance in the film Jodha Akbar. He deserved it and viewers are happy that IIFA had acknowledged it. He won the filmfare award for the best actor also for the performance in the same film earlier this year. Ashutosh Gowarikar won the IIFA award for the best director for the direction of the film Jodha Akbar. He received the filmfare award for the best director too earlier this year. Films like Jodha Akbar require lot of hardwork, sincerity and monumental task with cast and crew. It is good that his immense dedication was rewarded.

Priyanka Chopra won the IIFA award for the best actress for the performance in the film Fashion. Shreya Ghoshal won the IIFA award for the best female singer for the song “teri ore teri ore” from Singh is Kinng. Javed Ali won the IIFA award for the best male singer for his song “jashne-bahara” from the film Jodha Akbar.

Javed Akhtar also won the best lyricist award for the lyrics written for songs in the film Jodha Akbar. AR Rehman won the best composer award for his music composition in the film Jodha Akbar. Kangana Ranaut won the best supporting actress award for her performance in the film Fashion. Rajesh Khanna won the lifetime achievement award at the IIFA.

Shahrukh Khan won the male star of the decade award, while Aishwarya Rai won the female star of the decade award. Abhishek Bacchan won the best comedian award for his performance in the film Dostana, while Akshay Khanna won the best villain award for his performance in the film Race.

With few exceptions almost the same recipients of filmfare awards won the IIFA awards. Some of the good work again got unnoticed, for example, for example Pritam’s music in Sinng is Kinng, Vishal Shekhar’s music in Dostana, Amir Khan’s superlative performance in Ghajini.

But again best debutant awards for Farhan Akhtar in the male category ( for Luck by Chance) and Asin in the female category (for Ghajini), are encouraging signs. IIFA should start second best performance awards for all categories to encourage better performances of all the performers in bollywood industry.

Farhan Akhar has acting talent

Farhan Akhtar has acting talent.

Farhan Akhtar, the young director, has already shown his skills in direction in the last few years. Generally it has been seen some of the directors of bollywood industry had acting skills themselves. Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt were established actors themselves and passion towards direction persuaded them to make landmark films. Even directors like Subhash Ghai , Rakesh Roshan had featured in many films.

Farhan Akhtar amused the viewers with his innovative direction in films like Don. He took a grand risk. No other director would have a film on the same subject like Don and with the same title. In the late 70s, when Big B storm affected Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Don made the viewers crazy about bollywood films. Superstar Shahrukh Khan played the same role with a modernized style.

The story was also twisted and Priyanka Chopra and Boman Irani were given challenging roles in the new version of Don. The music of Don, composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy flabbergasted the viewers with hit sons like “maurya maurya”, “aaj ki raat”, “khaike paan banaraswala”, etc. Even the shooting in Malaysia and other dynamic locations impressed the viewers. The entire credit goes to Farhan Akhtar.

Farhan Akhtar showed his acting skills from Rock On and had a great job in the film Luck By Chance. Very significantly Farhan Akhtar showed the struggle of a newcomer in bollywood industry with his simple style of acting. He did not show any mannerisms. He showed the crude reality existing in bollywood industry. Had any professionally actor acted in the film Luck by Chance, the actor would have overacted and the performance would have brought in larger than life image.

The viewers should also have an improved mentally of appreciating the performance of realistic actors liked Farhan Akhtar. The film should be watched by the viewers and appreciated. Most of the actors and actresses of the present film industry are the products of brilliant direction of eminent directors. If they had not given proper guidance the efforts of the actors and actresses would have gone in vain.

Farhan Akhtar showed continue his acting even more in future films. Sohail Khan, the brother of Salman Khan was also initially interested in production of films rather than direction. Presently he had shown his skills in acting. He had complimented Salman Khan in films like Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya and God Tussi Great Ho.

Farhan Akhtar is an asset for the industry and the viewers expect better performance from him in the years to come.

The success of Luck by Chance lies in its simplicity.

The success of Luck by Chance lies in its simplicity.
The success of the film Luck by Chance lies in its simplicity. Farhan Akhtar had shown the reality that exists in the bollywood film industry. It is not a story relating to success which is dependent on talent and hard work.

Even more than that the film showed that newcomers had to wait for opportunities and then if their luck shined they got the scope of showing their talent in the film. Konkona Sen Sharma, who struggled in her young age for getting a lead role in the contemporary film, got selected after a screen test. But later the producer and director told her that she was not required. When she said that she had acting talent she was told that it was glamour that mattered more than acting capability which was there in the winners of beauty contests and fashion world.

Farhan Akhtar was a friend of her. First Konkona dropped her photo before Rishi Kapoor for reconsideration and later told Farhan about trying his luck in the industry. Hrithik Roshan, the actor in the film asked Rishi Kapoor to skip him and give the role to a newcomer. He wanted a break. Rishi Kapoor accepted his proposition.

It was a coincidence that Farhan Akhtar met Dimple Kapadia, a leading personality in the film industry in one of the premier shows. He told Dimple Kapadia that his parents were very fond of each other and he was indebted to her because the common liking of his parents had brought them together and they got married after that. Dimple Kapadia developed a soft corner for Farhan Akhtar and when Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Sanjay Kapoor and others sat together to select the newcomer for their film, Farhan Akhtar was selected by Dimple Kapadia.

While the shooting for the film was on, Dimple Kapadia’s daughter entered into an affair with Farhan Akhtar. Farhan forgot Konkona Sen Sharma and their story was published in the print media. He even forgot the contribution of Konkona in his life and blamed her for the published. Dimple’s daughter got scolded from her mother for the entire thing.

The success of the Luck by Chance lies in the simplicity with which Farhan Akhtar has unfolded the truth in the film industry. He is the same director who had created larger than life images in the film Don where Shahrukh Khan played the lead role.

He being a director had experience in respect of real life situations in the film industry. The film can be considered a refined commercial venture with brilliant music of Shankar Ehsaan Loy and honest disclosure of reality. The film should do well.

Will Luck by Chance attract the viewers at all?

Will Luck by Chance attract the viewers at all?

Zoya Akhtar, the sister of Farhan Akhtar had worked together with Farhan Akhtar in successful films in the past including Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya. Dil Chahta Hai did fantastic business in India and abroad with Saif Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Akshay Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Preeti Zinta all doing extremely well in their respective roles. The music of the film was successful and the locations in Australia were marvelous.

This is the first time Zoya Akhtar had directed a film and in her first directed film she had cast her own brother Farhan Akhtar in the major role in the film Luck By Chance. The story revolves around the life of Farhan Akhtar.

He had been shown as a common man who had arrived in Bombay to become a successful actor. Many actors all across the country have dreams and it was not unusual on the part of Farhan Akhtar too in the film. He had over there and realized that life was that complex and problematic.

He started handling pressure situations well. He realized that every successful actor in Bombay and the film industry had experienced failures at some point of their careers and it was nothing unusual for them. The success and the failures of Farhan Akhtar filled the entire film.

He even acted in films produced by those producers who only believed in casting established actor and actresses who had created a name for themselves. Farhan Akhtar got a scope of acting such types of films. He even entered into an affair with the leading actress of such films.

Hrithik Roshan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rishi Kapoor and Juhi Chawla played notable roles in the film and all of them gave realistic performances. Hrithik Roshan danced excellently as usual in the limited sequences created in the film. There were other good performances in the film given by Dimple Kapadia, Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Kapoor.

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the music for the film and had given decent songs in the film. The only worry lies in the fact that a number of big budget films are either released or are going to be released in 2009. Films like Dilli 6, Billu Barber, Kites are going to dominate bollywood films in 2009.

In that scenario, Luck By Chance can expect moderate response, definitely not an exceptional reaction from the viewers. Even if that happens Zoya Akhtar should consider herself to be lucky.