{"id":3727,"date":"2016-04-01T07:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:11:22","slug":"10-years-of-oye-lucky-lucky-oye-hindi-movies-dysfunctional-superchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"10 Years of Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!: A Sympathetic Portrait of a Dysfunctional Superchor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n the opening scene of Dibakar Banerjee\u2019s <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an elaborate press conference \u2013 well, by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/death-breath-delhi-blanket-smog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police standards \u2013 is underway. At the conference, we see \u201csuperchor\u201d Lucky\u2019s exploits through the years: A stream of stolen riches that include TV sets, music systems, family portraits, dust-laden figurines, alarm clocks, and even a dog. In a spot of unintended, but completely believable real-life <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/the-sidekick-the-saviour-the-underappreciated-comic-genius-of-johnny-lever\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comedy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a couple of women fight over a jewellery set and the hapless cops turn to Lucky to clear the air. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucky, after all, is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/maharashtras-biggest-celebrity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">celebrity <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thief. The film opens and ends with an episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a fictional crime reality show that profiles the life of criminals like Lucky. But Lucky\u2019s world is less fiction and more reality \u2013 as real as the crowded bylanes of Patel Nagar. Lucky lives neither in the tony South Delhi of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aisha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, nor in the aesthetic grime of Masakalli\u2019s historic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dilli 6<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He\u2019s from a Dilli, which defines the experience of many middle Dilliwalas, where crime and punishment blend as easily as saunth and curd in a dahi bhalla. <\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might have appeared a decade ago, but is just as relevant now. We live in an era when multiple <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/rbi-governor-urjit-patel-government-arun-jaitley\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">governments <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are conning us into playing \u201cstatue-statue\u201d and papering over our built heritage. Our natural heritage, in the meanwhile, is being taken care of by venture capitalists, who seamlessly pile on unpayable debts that go into so many zeroes that Aryabhatta would get anxiety attacks. In times like these, what\u2019s a thief who steals everything from luxury sedans to pets? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To that end, in an interview from 2008 before the film released, Banerjee clarified that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wasn\u2019t an outright comedy: That it was darker and spoke about the pressures of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/ladies-night-feminist-wednesdays\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inequality <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and ambition that find their roots in a typical lower-middle-class upbringing. In other words, Lucky is subject to the same psychoses that afflict the rest of us. \u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">The opening up of the economy in the \u201990s brought about a generation that sought immediate gratification \u2013 that applies to a small-time thief too, who holds the simple aspiration of being rich and respected (two words that he believes belong together).<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We meet Lakhvinder \u201cLucky\u201d Singh, aged 14, when the seeds of upward social mobility are slowly sprouting in his mind. In one scene, Lucky and his friends stare gobsmacked at the sight of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/earth-humans-population-children\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">children <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their age roaming around in a Mercedes, fully loaded with \u201cshoo-shaa\u201d power windows and the power that is endowed by the company of the opposite sex. This is when desire seeps as the poignant \u201cTu Raja Ki Rajdulari\u201d plays and everything in life slows down to half speed. This is not an isolated scene: The thematic device of slowness is used every time Lucky is met with an unquenchable longing for something his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/india-uttar-pradesh-up-prison-jail-charas-drugs-narcotics-bahraich-child-welfare\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upbringing <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has denied him, be it walking into a discotheque with a \u201csofe ke kapde wala\u201d suit or having a girl ride pillion on a bike through his gully. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was once all of us. The opening up of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/the-merchants-of-mumbais-cancer-economy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">economy <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the \u201990s brought about a generation that sought immediate gratification \u2013 that applies to a small-time thief too, who holds the simple aspiration of being rich and respected (two words that he believes belong together).<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a dive into the psychological depths of a thief, the answer at the bottom is the same: That at some level, driven by the same motivations and triggered by the same mishaps, we are all dysfunctional. Even a celebrity superchor like Lucky, the starring hero of his own story where he very rarely plays the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/mumbai-pothole-death-traffic-rain-monsoon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">villain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The characters that dent and shape Lucky\u2019s stippled psyche, are the multiple \u201cfather figures\u201d that Paresh Rawal plays brilliantly. His Punjabi dialect might be off, but he pervades Lucky\u2019s entire life. Lucky\u2019s three fathers provide him with some aspiration \u2013 and later desert those very aspirations \u2013 leaving him more muddled every time. Lucky\u2019s estranged father who brings home an \u201caunty\u201d, and is the root cause of dysfunctionality in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/indian-families-adulting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">household<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The stability that eludes him at home, results in a search of a father figure who can offer him some measure of respectability, even if it comes by way of ill-gotten wealth.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most influential figure out of the three is Gogi Bhai, a small-time dealer of stolen goods, masquerading as a \u201cparty wale\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/global-citizen-india-coldplay-jay-z-ananya-birla-demi-lovato\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">singer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Gogi Bhai is #TheGoodQuote of crooks, constantly spewing one-liners like \u201cSayaana kutta na beta\u2026 goo khaata hai.\u201d When Lucky finds himself reduced to playing second fiddle in Gogi\u2019s scheme of things, he decides to go it alone. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42132\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1543409329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"395\" \/>\n\n<figcaption>\n\n<p> Even a celebrity superchor like Lucky, the starring hero of his own story where he very rarely plays the villain.<\/p>\n\n<p>UTV Motion Pictures<\/p>\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOnce Lucky\u2019s theatrics start landing him in the news and the expansion of his empire takes him to Bangalore, Mumbai, and Chennai he has more or less achieved the monetary goal that he\u2019d set out to. This is when he bumps into the third father figure, Dr Handa. And it is here that he realises that the mere accumulation of wealth won\u2019t bring him any sort of respectability. Dr Handa and his crooked wife embroil Lucky in investing in a banquet hall and restaurant, a tangible means to the respect Lucky seeks, which eventually proves to be his undoing. \u00a0\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this endless loop of con-men getting conned by life, Lucky has only one constant \u2013 his friend and sidekick, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/bengali-bhodrolok-nyaka-obhimaan-byomkesh\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bengali<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is only when this relationship gets derailed by Handa and Gogi, that Lucky slowly sails into an abyss of loneliness. This is where you understand Banerjee\u2019s brilliance, and the delicate balance he is able to maintain: Even though you symapathise with Lucky, you are unable to deny all his wrongs. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like Lucky, Banerjee seems to insist, we occasionally touch the shores of black and white. But finally, we all swim in a sea of greys, whether we are the government, regular <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/blueprint-prayagraj-allahabad-yogi-adityanath\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">citizens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or superchors. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era when multiple governments con us into playing \u201cstatue-statue\u201d and companies pile on unpayable debts that go into so many zeroes that Aryabhatta would get anxiety attacks, what\u2019s a thief who steals everything from luxury sedans to pet dogs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3114],"tags":[1441,6997,1290,4058,6998,136,6999,7000,5617],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-bengali","tag-character","tag-dibakar-banerjee","tag-economy","tag-lucky","tag-movies","tag-oye-lucky-lucky-oye","tag-superchor","tag-villain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 Years of Oye Lucky! 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