A rather diffuse and unfocused plot masks a clever story, loaded with enough thematic content for a shorter, more tightly edited film. The characters are thinly sketched and so have problems engaging the audience's emotions.
Replete with film star cameos that do not convince that this is what the Bollywood film industry is really like since the likes of Shahrukh Khan, for example, merely seem to be acting another kind of role. The film is, thus, as synthetic as the world it aims to lampoon with the exception of the professional jealousy common to all working life as the career of one side of a sexual relationship progresses while the other flounders. Moreover, as the title implies, some success is not so much the product of hard work and tenacity but also of being in the right place at the right time – and of accepting yourself for what you truly are.
The great saving grace of this film is that it does not have the kind of cop out ending a Hollywood movie would almost certainly have: The sort of real world Feminism that can only make one cheer for the heroine.
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