Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi Movie Reviews

LIFE KI TOH LAG GAYI is a typical Bambaiya story. Set in Mumbai, director Rakesh Mehta portrays four stories which finally merge into one at the climax. Mehta infuses the elements of love, lust, revenge and ambition. But what is sorely missing is an item number that could have jazzed it up a bit. Considering the setting is in Mumbai, there were opportunities galore to pump up the tempo. Importantly, it has good music that sets the mood of the movie

The Mumbaiya jargon is incredibly popular and quite a few of its expressions and terminology have become a part of life. As a matter of fact, the term 'lagi huyi hai', from which the title of this film LIFE KI TOH LAG GAYI has been obtained, is a universally widespread term. It's a situation many people find themselves in at diverse junctures of their lives. Films with the Mumbaiya flavor have, quite often, found acceptance and approval by viewers

Yeh Mumbai hai, yahan sirf vaat lagti hai… keeping this agenda strictly in mind, writer-director Rakesh Mehta set out to make a film. With the help of an ensemble cast, he weaves together tales of some peculiar characters hoping that the names of the cast members would lend credence to the story. But when you take on over-familiar subjects seen umpteen times on the big screen like Mumbai’s underworld; showbiz and the casting couch

Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi is what you call a wannabe film. It tries to defy the routine - the story is not conventional, storytelling has multiple unconnected tracks, the characters are quirky and the title has a calculated shock value. Why it still disappoints is that it never achieves what it aspires to. So the plot is not just unconventional but also uninteresting. The multiple tracks do not add diverse perspectives but contribute towards common mess

Salman (Kay Kay Menon), son of a one time underworld biggie ( Jackie Shroff, in a flash of an appearance), is on a mission to nail the murderer of his parents, even before he's started mourning their sudden death. ACP Chautala (Manu Rishi) is chided by his bully boss and packed off from the capital city to Mumbai's underbelly, to track four Nigerian drug peddlers (referred to as kaale throughout the film). The gold medalist cop, who prides himself

Those living in Mumbai never stop cursing the city, its traffic, its pace, the space (or lack of it). But everybody moves on to better things, more cussing, and of course embracing with passion. Most come to the city with an agenda, but there’s no guarantee the muse allows one to willingly go with the flow or stick to the plan. Similar is the fate of the four characters that director Rakesh Mehta airdrops into the city. The too-honest-to-handle ways of ACP Chautala

Roughly translated into English the Hindi expression 'lag gayi' on which this film's title and theme is founded means 'screwed'. It's a quadriptych; four different stories melting into one another. Along the way you wonder how people from such sharply polarised backgrounds could have any connection at all. But, then, the idea of this seems embedded in the idea of Mumbai -- a melting pot, a potpourri in which anything can happen, to anyone and seemingly disconnected

Director: Rakesh Mehta Cast: Pradhuman Singh, Kay Kay Menon, Manu Rishi, Ranvir Shorey, Tom Alter, Neha Bhasin, Misti Mukherjee Synopsis: Life Ki......

If you want to see the 'real' face Bollywood, then go and spend an hour at any of the coffee shops in 'Downtown Andheri'. At any given point of time in the day or night, you will see at least 10 girls and boys aged between 19 to 25 huddling together, sipping coffee and nibbling a chocolate pastry. More often than not, they are what we call 'strugglers' in Bollywood — starry-eyed aspiring actors from smaller Indian towns (sometimes even from Pakistan and Bangladesh