Lucky Baskhar is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language black comedy heist drama film written and directed by Venky Atluri. Produced by Sithara Entertainments, Fortune Four Cinema and Srikara Studios, the film stars Dulquer Salmaan in the titular role, alongside Meenakshi Chaudhary, Tinnu Anand, P. Sai Kumar, Ramki, Raghu Babu, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Sachin Khedekar and Y. Kasi Viswanath. The story follows a…
I had to rewatch this one because I wonder how he was damn so lucky, hehe, because everything about Baskhar's story just kept working out in ways that felt almost too smooth for a man who started out this broke and this stuck.
Baskhar is an ordinary bank teller, barely making ends meet, trapped with a loan he took to survive, a paltry salary that has not advanced a bit in the past few years, a family that relies on him, his wife, his little boy and his father who's paralyzed and has lost the ability to talk since years ago, when he was scammed out of everything, so that's already a guy with a load that a lot of people could not carry, then, when he's about to get promoted, he does but it doesn't go to him, yea, it gets handed to someone else, that humiliation is the caster, as right after that he begins to steal money from the bank just to survive and this one decision is what gets him into a much bigger world that he had never thought of entering, smuggling of connections, stock market manipulation, and finally full fledged money laundering, with a real backdrop of the big stock market scam era of 1992 in India.
What really got me to re watch it is that the ascension of Baskhar seems to be a series of calculations in most scenes, and a man that just kept landing on his feet at the right moments in others, each time he took a chance, he could have fallen apart and yet it was a benefit, That's the "lucky" part that prompted me to go back and watch it again, seeing if I missed something the first time, is it really just luck, or was Baskhar actually smarter and more calculated than the movie's first viewing? I mean, the second time I watched it, I began to see how many of his moves he made with such a sense of purpose, but they seemed to be a stroke of luck because he pulls them off so easily and so casually.
The movie also has this charm, because he constantly tells us that he was being interrogated by the CBI officials years later and he was breaking the fourth wall to narrate his own story, which means that he is basically letting us in on the joke the whole time, this self awareness of how crazy his story is, even to himself.
Dulquer Salmaan really has everything going for him in this movie, that's the combination of charm and desperation he brings to it and making Baskhar liked despite doing some of the shadiest things in the movie is hard to do otherwise without the audience turning on the guy.
The fact that I watched it again and realized it was this savvy, mostly silent math that ended up being such a stroke of genius the first time around is why it paid off for me. Baskhar didn't just get lucky, he was in a longer game than he realized that's exactly why this movie holds up on a second watch.
›Lucky Baskhar {sharing some simple but powerful message}70@intishar37d
"Lucky Baskhar" is one of the movies I wanted to watch 1.5 years ago, and I downloaded it to my PC then. Because of my laziness or maybe for something else, I didn't watch it. Finally, today I ended up watching it, and I am going to share it here.
In this movie, the role of " Baskhar " (the hero) was a bank cashier who used to do his job honestly, but the salary was low. He was facing financial issues, and because of the struggling situation or lack of enough money, people didn't respect him. Even his family members were also neglected or disrespected by others. He was also in debt, but he was expecting a promotion, which could make his situation better. Unfortunately, he didn't get the promotion, and the situation of his family was worse.
It says that for the family, people can cross any boundaries and even dare to be dishonest. For the sake of family or for the happiness of family, he also chooses that way. At first, because of the system's loophole, he could take some cash from the bank and return it before the start of the next day without anyone noticing. There was a way to make money using the fund within a short time, and he took advantage of it and made some money from it. But he stopped immediately when he found it too risky later.
Luckily, he got a promotion at that time. He figured out there were some issues with Bank-to-Bank loans. Someone was misusing the funds, but they were returning the loan on time. The loan of the bank was going the account of another account, and he investigated it; he found the funds were being used for stock market manipulation. They made money from market manipulation and later used the money to return the bank loan.
Rather than reporting it to the higher authority. He used the chance to make money. He kept quiet, but he demanded information of stock market manipulation, and the information was like a jackpot for him. In that way, he became rich, and his lifestyle improved.
He actually showed that money brought him respect and love, and using the money, one can buy the arrogance of others also.
Earning money is very important, and sometimes people become arrogant, but they actually forget why they are making money and ignore the fact that they started to earn money. Sometimes it's better to know when to stop; otherwise, people may lose happiness, and it's very important, which was shown in the movie quite well.
There were many traps and risks in all the steps, and how he overcame all of those things was quite interesting. If you want to know how, then you should watch the movie.
I would love to rate the movie 70 out of 100. I think I don't rate high unless it's something impressive, and 70 is more than decent in my opinion. You can see the trailer before watching it.
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