Dulquer Salmaan has once again struck gold with his latest movie ‘Lucky Bhaskar’ as he headlines this period financial scam by a man in need of quick money who is in for a journey of love for his family, boosted by greed and power. This Vicky Atluri drama cooks up for a worthy crime drama, a twisted take on a similar 80s and 90s financial scam by Harshad Mehta, the drama is quite similar with the notion of family to add to the dramatic plotline.
Lucky Bhaskar Plot
Bhaskar Kumar is a middle-class family man, living with his father, mother, two siblings, a wife and a son. He works as a cashier in a private bank with a hand to mouth salary with money lenders scratching his back in dander, demanding to repay the mounds of debts. This puts him under pressure with Bhaskar finding a loophole that paves way to not just sort his debts but also leads to much more than he can handle.
‘Lucky Bhaskar’ Review
‘Lucky Bhaskar’ begins with Dulquer’s character Bhaskar’s journey with his wife Sumathi that is revealed in a song. The duo in the beginning seems to start their own life together amidst all the hardships, going forward shoulder-to-shoulder. All the fairytale stops when Bhaskar breaks the fourth wall and lets the audience know that his life is really not how it seems.
Bhaskar is under mounds of debt and he and his family were humiliated publicly as the plot thickens in a bitter way with the narration reaching a breaking point where Bhaskar has to find a solution to escape his debts. He is bound to make a way or fall into a practice that basically leaves him with quick money. The way the movie cuts from a tentative buildup to a fool proof plan that just clicks is repetitive and makes it easy to predict throughout the film.
Scenes where Bhaskar’s actions in his bank is spelled out for the audience to understand and continues in such a pace that it somehow does not land flat is completely due to the fact that Director Vicky Atluri’s inclusion of a real life stock market scam by Harshad Mehta as a base to propel Bhaskar’s stealthy actions. The family dynamic is kept as a leverage to give the audience an idea and reason for Bhaskar’s actions with the exception of the father and Bhaskar’s son Karthik who surprise.
The movie shifts rapidly when Bhaskar again breaks the fourth wall and gives a heads up that his story is just getting started, spinning off a plotline of detailed dirty money laundering and banking fraud involving almost everyone from the bank manager to a peon a part of a larger scam. The narration keeps the audience covered with details explaining the scam without overdoing it, successfully setting the pace for the crime drama.
Bhaskar’s rags to riches could easily be in itself be a proper end to the period drama, ending on a high note but Vicky Atluri is poignant in using the supporting characters such as Sumati to navigate the greed and crude change in Bhaskar, who is full of his new found power game meddles with his personality. Sumathi played by Meenakshi Choudhary is a perfect casting whose strength and conscience in a way holds the mirror for Bhaskar to reflect upon his actions.
A film that is partly giving us a show of the knack and thrill of a financial scam in the era of no CCTV, it is an introspective commentary on a man’s moral scale and his actions slightly crossing the line of preaching the audience and letting them retrospect on their own. The Vicky Atluri drama works well for the fans who like to slurp good financial and business scam movies. Lucky Bhaskar is a fresh plot let down by rundown versions of built up screenplay.
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