1 / 4 STARS
DIRECTOR: MANOJ BHATNAGAR
ACTOR: PRASANTH
ACTRESS: RIYA SEN
MUSIC DIRECTOR: MANOJ BHATNAGAR
STORYLINE:
Prasanth plays a spoiled rich kid, brother to Raguvaran and brother-in-law to Suganya, in this big-budget venture. He is looking for love. Riya Sen plays a dancer who has marriage proposals from an American-based business magnate (Sanjay) but turns him down. Eventually, after a while, Prasanth and Riya Sen fall in love.
It is at this point that Sister Mary comes from Udakkamandalam and reveals an important fact -- years ago, when Prasanth and Raguvaran visited that town, they left behind a pregnant woman. Now there's a little girl (Baby Puja) without a father who wants to see her father before going into a necessary heart operation. Sister Mary wrongly accuses Prasanth of being the father, and he, in his good heart, to save the girl, tells her that he IS her father. After he bonds with her some, it is revealed that Raguvaran is actually the father.
To save his brother's good name, and his brother's marriage, Prasanth takes all the blame -- he loses Riya Sen, his family, and everyone and goes to live by himself as a caterer in Udakkamangalam.
Years later, Riya Sen agrees to marry Sanjay and their marriage is finalized on a luxury ship, the Super Star Virgo (twice the size of Titanic, supposedly). Raguvaran and Suganya go to the wedding as well. Prasanth and the little girl also go as caterers.
The story finishes out on the luxury liner.
COMMENTS:
Where do I start with all the flaws in this movie? O.K., number one, will you Tamil movie producers stop touting your heroines as big dancers (especially Bharatanatyam dancers!) when they CAN'T, by any right, reproduce a single basical step? And number two, Bharathirajaa's own find, Riya Sen, really ought to learn a little something they call 'acting.' At Balaji's reviews, Balaji calls her a 'shorter thinner Aishwarya Rai' but Aishwarya Rai has something that Riya Sen completely lacks -- it's called a personality.
Number three, okay, the Super Star Virgo was a good idea, but will the director seriously not insult our intelligence by filming it standing absolutely still and passing that off as movement? And have it start and then have it stopped all of a sudden? Have people off the boat and then suddenly appear on it?
Number four, will Prasanth stop giving us these 'thiaga-chimal' roles in which he must sacrifice his love and family for something? And will his acting style ever change?
On occasion, 'Good Luck' delivers some good comedy with Vivek, Vayapuri, and 'Vinu Chakravarthy', but even that wasn't so good (and quit it with the stupid disgusting humor like the girls licking the floor near a trash can!)
NOTE ON THE MUSIC:
Mediocre.
RECOMMENDATION:
Skip the ride.
VIJAY VANNIARAJAN