Lucky: No Time for Love

This is my first review, so I hope it's OK.

Lucky is the story of Lucky (Sneha Ullal), a quiet schoolgirl living in Russia. While going to school one day, she wishes with all her heart that school is stopped for the day. In a twist, her wish is fulfilled but in such a way that she never thought of. A battle between rebels break out and Lucky is caught between them. She meets Aditya (Salman Khan) who tries to help her come home. Because, they have to avoid the rebels and face the bitter cold and yet go home safely, there is "No Time For Love".

Sneha Ullal is fantastic, stupendous, and tremendous. She really made an impact on me and I really wanted to see her. Her acting, mannerisms, dialogues and above all, voice was as cute and sweet as anything. Excelling in the role of a shy, innocent girl, she is the new girl of Bollywood.

Salman Khan does a good performance but does nothing spectacular. His expressions are good however and he still has a lot left in him.

Mithun Chakrobarty acts wonderfully but his character is not really right. He shouldn't have been made a intelligence officer at all.

The songs rock. Each and every song sounds melodious. My favourite is "Lucky Lips". The other songs are good as well.

All in all, Lucky is a good time pass movie. Watch it only to see Sneha Ullal, if not anybody else. 7/10

Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru's 2005 flick 'Lucky - No Time For Love' is classy film. A charming entertainer, coupled with fabulous direction, silk editing, good performances and ear-pleasing music score. Lucky has its share of minuses, but lets the give the markers its due, a well-made film in all aspects. Lucky proved Lucky for its distributors at the box office and was one the biggest openers of the year. Lucky, from my side, without a doubt gets a Thumbs Up!

Pluses: The film has been directed beautifully, the locations are breath-taking. The film's script is cute and well executed. The film's music is a Brownie point. Adnan Sami has done a splendid job. Good performances. Mithun Chakraborty continues his magic with Lucky. He plays the role of the intelligent officer to perfection. Salman Khan is a scene stealer. He's superb. Sneha Ullal gets her job right. Kader Khan, Ravi Baswani and Vikram play to the gallery.

Minuses: The film begins slow, and takes time to come to the point.

on the whole 'Lucky - No Time For Love' is an entertaining film. Watch it.

What an incredibly dumb 2nd half. I actually thought this movie wouldn't be too bad after the initial 40-45 minutes(which is rather entertaining)......but after Salman and Sneha spend their 1st night together.......Lucky goes straight into the gutter. Just a real snore-fest. I don't know Y they couldn't keep it a light-hearted entertainer that focused on Adi-Lucky's relationship. They had to turn it into some sort of a national crisis and a lot of the scenes had me cracking up. Talk abt being un-intentionally hilarious.

On to the stars, Salman was quite OTT in the 1st half, but at least he kept me entertained. The movie sadly had to take a more serious turn post intermission, and Salman's just too limited an actor for me to take him seriously in emotional dramas.

Sneha knows how to make the right expressions, but it all falls apart once she has to open her mouth. She's neither a great looker and has weird eyes. Does have a great ass though.

Mithun seemed like a cartoon character. Childish crap.

Nobody else was noteworthy.

Overall, nice start.....but it all goes south after the 1st hour. No surprise its BO fairing had a similar pattern. Nice start, but collapsed from there on to barely get Average status.

'Lucky' is not a description, but the name of the female lead in the movie. So much has been written about her looks, Salman Khan's involvement in casting her and the likeness to another blue-eyed beauty from Bollywood that more than anything, it creates a curiosity in Bollywood-followers to watch the movie. A sneaky publicity campaign in the hope of a larger audience? I think so... But the movie itself is not void of any entertainment value. On the contrary, I found ducking into a cinema to watch this movie as quite a wonderful way to get out of traffic on the drive home.

The titular Lucky, as played by débutante Sneha Ullal, is a humble poetry-loving High School student studying in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives there along with her younger sister & parents - her Dad works at the Indian Embassy. Although an acheiver of good marks, she mis-reads her time-table and ends up studying for a wrong exam. Before leaving home on the fateful day, she prays to God "Please let there be no Exam today". God listens to this favoured disciple in the form of an unexpected wave of insurgency in the Russian city and neighbouring areas, causing the entire area to become a playground for bullets. Caught in-between, she bumps into Aditya (Salman Khan), the son of the Indian Ambassador, and the two take-off into the wilderness for survival. The rest of the movie has us follow the pair as they make their way through woods, poison, army camp, frozen desert, crowded trains, etc - towards their families. Mithun Chakraborty plays an Intelligence Officer (a Colonel, no less) hired by the Ambassador (Aditya's papa) to rescue our hero & heroine.

In tune with Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya, the Khan brothers have again made a movie watchable with the entire family. A very clean and soft movie that has its share of mushy moments, a bit of comedy and a few action sequences. The movie is a little longer than required (especially in the second half), yet does not get boring in any of its parts. Add to that the beautiful scenics of St Petersburg, and you get the equivalent of a summer date-movie for couples fighting off the heat-wave in India.

Salman Khan is his new usual self, acts in a few scenes, jokes in most, fights in some. He is beginning to look old, & maybe he realizes that and plays on it in the movie. Mithun Chakraborty does a 'love him' or 'hate him' turn - and I loved him. This man has a style of his own - and if you have watched his earlier movies (80s), you may laugh, clap and whistle to your heart's content in his sequences, as I did This movie marks the debut of four people. #1 - Sneha Ullal, the Aishwarya look-alike is a little more than just that - not only does she have the beautiful wide-eyes of the beauty but she is an actress of the same degree, i.e., Zero. Yet, for the part that she plays - a naive and super-innocent school-girl with only dreams in her eyes, she is watchable. It's a trend in Popular Indian Cinema to let non-actors make their debut and watch movie after movie of theirs while they learn acting before your very eyes. You just need to look good. And this girl does look cute. But it can get quite tiring when made to stare at her for so long. Also, she looks more like an adopted child than a gene-member of the family her character lives with in the movie.

#2 & 3 are Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru - the directing duo who graduate from Music Videos to Big Screen. As with the director of Karam, these people know how to capture a movie visually, but show their mark only in short sequences of set-pieces. They walk and trip their way through the movie, but thankfully more of the former than the latter. Yet, they could have avoided the whole Kader Khanroutine (an Indian Doctor with Russian kids) - which ends up being a complete waste.

#4 is Adnan Sami as Music Director for a motion picture. He does a wonderful job, and provides beautifully woven melodious numbers that go very well with the movie. None of the songs stick out, but rather blend into the narrative. The opening Asha Bhosle song "Hai Rama Rama" & the Adnan Sami & Lata Mangeshkar duet "Shayad Yehi To Pyaar Hai" stand out among all the good songs as the better ones. But the music director for the background score messes up quite a bit. 'Blaring' is a word that comes to mind.

All in all, a decent movie for Salman & Mithun fans; a passable one for the rest.

My rating ---> 3 of 5

So I don't know how the rest of the reviewers are able to get over how damn creepy this movie comes off as. Lucky is 17 supposedly but seemingly acts like she's 12 and it's so cringe worthy to see an old guy like Salman Khan going after her... That's a pretty crazy thing and on the face of it sort of reminds me of Nishabd (which handled this topic SOO much better). It almost feels like it's pandering to immature boys with schoolgirl fetishes. And having it set in Russia I'd think maybe there's a reference to Lolita but this just seems creepy