Hindi movies are truly getting innovative in their storyline. Never mind all of them dont become a hit, but that hasnt detered the enthusiasm. Another such movie which beats the routine to dust OLLO(Oye Lucky Lucky Oye) falls truly in that category.
The opening is classy with a major news channel talking about a thief they caught and crores worth of loot recovered. The theif is no other than Lovinder Singh aka Lucky(Abhay Deol). He is being made ready for a public speaking. The story flashbacks 15 yrs where Lucky is a 15 yr old Sardar kid(Manjot Singh) manhandled by his Dad(Paresh Rawal) who brings another woman whom all call Aunty in the house. The Dad runs a cooler business . Young Lucky does the work of delivery of them apart from helping with other chores and yet gets beaten up when he asks for a scooter to speedily get work done. The father just is kind enough to provide shelter and even threatens not to pay his sons school fees. Our kid has his friends who admire the high society stuff and possessions.
Once, Lucky and his friends beat up a rich kid. Before letting him go, Lucky takes his cool glasses. From that point, the desire to own such things takes root in Luckys mind and he uses all means to achieve what he wants. He smartly cons hundreds of rupees he has to bring to his father, cons his garage owner friend for a motor bike to take his girl friend to lunch and more.
The movie fast forwards now with Lucky and his freind Bangaali(Manu Rishi) photo outside Outub minar and takes it to their existence in tinsel town of Delhi. Bangaali has been knocking doors on this one Gogi Bhai(Paresh Rawal in his double role). Gogi Bhai is one of the notorious crime lords in Delhi who does stage shows and in that disguise facilitates other criminal theft(valuables, expensive cars, expensive furniture). Lucky gets his chance with Gogi Bhai by pulling off his first one. During the first one, he has to take a girl Dolly(Richa Chadda) to one of Gogi Bhais customers and bring her home back in a drunk state. While getting her home back, Lucky meets her younger upright sister Sonal(Neetu Chandra) and takes a liking to her. He courts her a few times . Obviously though our girl knows he is a thief and all that. Our guy works his charm well and she starts to take a liking to him.
Obviously our guy Lucky is not someone who is content to play second fiddle to Gogi Bhai. He gets his chance to pull it off with someone else, but in the end it circles back to Gogi Bhai. So our guy decides to venture a little outside Delhi and works his charm very well. During one of his air travels, he bumps into one Dr Handa(Paresh Rawal triple role). They get along well together. Slowly they get to meet, Dr Handa introduces Lucky to his wife(Archana Puran Singh). They toy with the idea of starting a new restaurant. Besides, the love of Luckys life motivates him to start life on a clean slate. Soon with friend Bangaali, Dr Handa they finally setup a restaurant and its opening.
From that point, Lucky experiences something fishy. Things dont seem what they are. And rightfully, things fall apart. The fall of Lucky and how he copes with it keeping his chin up is the rest of the movie.
This is absolutely heads, shoulders, arms and legs Abhay Deols movie. He has carried the movie on his shoulders. The guy surely has a knack of doing something different and does it with ease, class and most important naturally. Its hard to imagine someone else carry this role off. I must say he has carved his own niche among the Deols(Sunny, Bobby). Rather than be cowed into action or romantic genre, he prefers to be in his own league where he acts different characters in different plots and keeps you interested. And it would inadequate to ignore someone of Paresh Rawals calibre. Acting the abusive father, criminal lord and a slimy doctor in one movie is not simple for an actor of any calibre and Paresh does justice to all the characters. Interesting part, though Paresh is a Gujarati by background, he gets under the north indian tone and sounds an authentic Sardar or a Delhi person. Neetu Chandra does little but does it well. She has little scope in this Abhay Deol dominated movie but matches upto his presence well. Manu Rishi as Bangaali and Luckys sidekick is another treat to watch. Manjot Singh as the young Lucky has done a wonderful job too.
Some scenes worth a watch
-Young Lucky replying back to his father.
-Young Luckys love interest
-The restaurant scene where Young Lucky takes his girl friend first time
-Lucky stealing the mercedes out of the parking lot with ease.
-Lucky and Bangaali going to a store and get into clothes making them look like rich people and make it possible to enter the disco.
-Gogi Bhai mocking Lucky in front of his friends
-Lucky charming Sonal first time
-Lucky visiting his family in Punjab after a long time and what he sees there
-Lucky getting cheated on towards the end.
-The underbelly of Delhi displayed.
All in all, this movie is worth your ticket and time, popcorn and coke included.