Luck by Chance

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Luck by Chance

2009

2h 35m

6.5(62 votes)

Romance

Drama

Comedy

Overview

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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Cast & Crew

36 members

Acting

Farhan Akhtar

Vikram Jaisingh

Acting

Konkona Sen Sharma

Sona Mishra

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Dimple Kapadia

Neena Walia

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Rishi Kapoor

Rommy Rolly

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Juhi Chawla Mehta

Minty Rolly

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ऋतिक रोशन

Zaffar Khan

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Isha Sharvani

Nikki Walia

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Sanjay Kapoor

Ranjit Rolly

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Arjun Mathur

Abhimanyu Gupta

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Saurabh Shukla

Nand Kishore

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Alyy Khan

Chaudhary

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Boman Irani

Dinyar Sabri

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Mohsin Akhtar

Kunal

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Pankaj Kalra

Raju

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Siddharth Makkar

Sameer

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Arvind Vaidya

Panditji

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Neelu Kohli

Mohini

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Veena Mehta

Mrs. Verma

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Aamir Khan

Self

Writing

Rajkumar Hirani

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Costume & Make-Up

Manish Malhotra

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Directing

Anurag Kashyap

Deepak

Acting

Akshaye Khanna

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Writing

Javed Akhtar

Self

Acting

शबाना आज़मी

Self

Acting

Rani Mukerji

Self

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Dia Mirza

Self

Acting

अभिषेक बच्चन

Self

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John Abraham

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Acting

Ranbir Kapoor

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Vivek Oberoi

Self

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Kareena Kapoor Khan

Self

Production

Karan Johar

Self

Acting

Ronit Roy

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शाहरुख़ ख़ान

Self

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Akshaye Khanna

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