With The Fungus Gone.

Very few hindi movies leave me with a sense of satisfaction of having seen something nice and special.LBC is one of them because it never ventures over the top.The story subtly unravels ,never once forcing itself and Zoya delivers a better take on bollywood than Bhandarkar did.The reason I say that is because Page 3 force feeds you,LBC lets you discover on your own.The movie is languid in its pace and the story requires that partly.
The movie has well fleshed out,all too familiar characters.Dimple Kapadia’s role of a diva mom living herself again through her daughter,Isha-the daughter who is spoilt but yet retains an innocence in her,Rishi Kapoor-the over the hill producer searching for that hit again and lastly Juhi Chawla the sweet trophy wife who states facts with such naivety are all very endearing.
Zoya like her brother did in DCH has an ability to create humor in an understated manner that you hardly notice that it hits you.Like the one where we are told why becoming a hollywood hero is easier than a bollywood one,or the one where Nina,kapadia’s onscreen avatar in anger tells that the name bollywood is denigrading or even the one where Anurag kashyap states that he ripped a hollywood movie to write it as the director wanted.The entire sequence of lucky 5 for Rishi Kapoor is perhaps the most overstated of the humor.The rest leave an impresion.
The cameos are cleverly interwoven with each star sportingly playing themselves.Thus Aamir comes as the one always wanting another shot,Kareena as the tongue in cheek heroine,Abhishek as the one who loyally conveys the presence of his dad in some way everytime,Rani as the sugary sweet and ever so diplomatic star,SRK as the larger than life star willing to pout advice and finally that brings us to the one not playing himself in a way ,Hrithik Roshan.Hrithik as Zaffar Khan is very good with a sincierity that shows.He plays the great star trapped in his own image mocking SRK when he says he works for Zaffar.the part where he conveys he no longer wants to work for his mentor is very well shot and so is the scene where he shows and then subdues a sense of insecurity.
Farhan like the movie is charming in an understated way.He holds the script well and never once lets the audience sympathy slip from him.He looks cuter and fitter and one wishes to see more of him.Konkana is good as usual but she is so very getting type cast in woman of multiple layer kind of roles that one wishes to see her in lighter roles.
Zoya impresses and seems equally good and perhaps better than her brother as a director.The art direction is average though.Luck by Chance succeeds in the irony it portrays and yet never makes you feel disgusted or depressed with any aspect of the industry shown.Its one of the good hindi movies I have seen in a long time.