

Luck by Chance
2009-01-30 · 155 min · ★ 6.5
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
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Production details
- Directors
- Zoya Akhtar
- Production companies
- Excel Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment
- Countries
- India
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 2,300,000
- Revenue
- USD 3,000,000
Top Cast
Konkona Sen SharmaSona Mishra
Farhan AkhtarVikram Jaisingh
Rishi KapoorRommy Rolly
Dimple KapadiaNeena Walia
Juhi Chawla MehtaMinty Rolly
Sanjay KapoorRanjit Rolly
Hrithik RoshanZaffar Khan
Isha SharvaniNikki Walia
Arjun MathurAbhimanyu Gupta
Saurabh ShuklaNand Kishore
Alyy KhanChaudhary
Boman IraniDinyar Sabri
Dia MirzaNeetu
Anurag KashyapJai
Siddharth MakkarSameer
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